John O'Nolan

Recently, I've found my preferred way to interact with lots of products is getting Claude to use a CLI tool, and then just talking to it out loud about what I want to happen.

Early 2026 is a very weird time to be an open source maintainer.

Why am I making an RSS reader?

We've now generated over $136M from free, open source software with Ghost $36M in revenue from managed hosting $100M in platform revenue for indie publishers The ecosystem is growing really quickly at this point, and really excited about where things are…

My biggest point of uncertainty about Ghost 6.0 was whether people were going to "get" the social web integration.

Last week marked 12 years since the launch of Ghost on Kickstarter.

I'm reading Range by David Epstein at the moment, of which the below is an excerpt.

Ghost is a distributed non-profit foundation which gives away all of its intellectual property under a permissive MIT license.

If you use Apple Notes a lot - this (free!)

I was digging through some old design files yesterday and came across two of the first ever sketches I made for the idea of memberships and subscriptions in Ghost, from way back at the very beginning of 2016.

About 10 years ago I applied to Y Combinator with Ghost.

How web bloat impacts users with slow devices I love Dan’s in-depth posts so much.

At the end of 2023 I started working on a new project called Vintas, a simple hiring platform for remote teams.