robertobonfa.com
Roberto Bonfàs personal blog: articles on home automation, information security, homelabs, books, TV series and film, published on Ghost CMS.
Why
A blog that puts a firewall walkthrough next to a book review needs a theme that looks like the person writing it. The starting point is Thesis, a commercial Ghost theme actively maintained and updated by its developer: solid foundations, but built for general use.
From there came a heavily modified version, kept private and never redistributed: layout, typography, image and tag handling, all reworked for content that varies wildly. The least visible part of the work is also the most important: the changes live in a separate copy of the theme, so every new upstream release can be pulled in and reapplied without starting over. Before this arrangement the same idea ran as a theme of its own, Bellerofonte, now archived; alongside it came Chimera, a different direction built on a different base theme.
How it is built
Ghost CMS handles content and administration; the theme is written in Handlebars with SCSS stylesheets, compiled through a dedicated build pipeline that produces a distribution package ready for upload, checked with Ghost's official validation tool before every release. The three theme lines share the same technical base but follow separate update paths, so an experimental change on one version does not risk spreading to the others.
- Ghost CMS
- Handlebars
- SCSS
