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After years of running on WordPress, I have officially migrated the site to a Dockerized Ghost CMS instance running on a local i5 home server. This move is designed to provide a faster, more "developer-centric" reading experience, especially for long-form technical guides.

[!INFO] Why the change? WordPress was becoming high-maintenance. Moving to a Markdown-based workflow allows me to write articles in my local IDE (Obsidian) and publish them with a single click.

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Testing C++ Syntax Highlighting

Since most of my work involves the BeagleBone and embedded C++, let's verify that the code blocks render correctly. Here is a simple GPIO toggle using the libgpiod library:

#include <iostream>
#include <gpiod.hpp>
#include <unistd.h>

int main() {
    std::string chipname = "gpiochip1";
    unsigned int line_num = 18; // Example GPIO

    gpiod::chip chip(chipname);
    auto line = chip.get_line(line_num);

    line.request({ "Blink", gpiod::line_request::DIRECTION_OUTPUT, 0 }, 0);

    while (true) {
        line.set_value(1);
        usleep(500000);
        line.set_value(0);
        usleep(500000);
    }
    return 0;
}