I've spent many hours fine-tuning my custom Ghost theme to get things just so. Then, I woke up this morning and decided I didn't like most of what I'd done, so I reverted to the default "Source" theme. Source is mostly inoffensive, and a good fall-back position when I'm sick of thinking about themes. It happens a lot.I dislike nearly every available Ghost theme, so I thought I'd build my own. It turns out I kind of don't want to. The local setup is full of things I don't really understand, and I ran into path and build issues when starting work on Linux then resuming it on macOS. That put me off the whole idea, but I persisted for a while.Another issue with custom themes is keeping up with Ghost development. For example, they recently improved how social media icons are handled and I wanted that. I had to build it in myself. Source got it immediately, for free.At least with Ghost, changing themes is relatively easy, so I'm not out much if I want to switch back or to something new.…
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The only change I would make is switching to a serif font for the body of the articles. Makes longer posts easier to read.