In August 2025, contributed targeted improvements to TryGhost/ActivityPub to enhance reliability and data consistency around account updates. Key changes restricted Update activities to internal accounts, eliminating redundant external updates and removing the obsolete external accounts update job, while ensuring updated account information is correctly visible to followers. Added new scenarios and step definitions to test internal follower visibility, strengthening end-to-end coverage.

July 2025 performance summary: Delivered end-to-end Ghost↔ActivityPub synchronization with a new ghost_ap_post_mappings table and GhostPostService to manage create/update/delete flows, complemented by webhook endpoints and update notifications for post state changes. Ensured publish timestamps are accurate by deriving from the Post entity's publishedAt rather than using the current time, increasing fidelity of fediverse posts. Improved attachment URL handling to reliably extract and use the first URL when multiple URLs are present. Strengthened reliability and testing practices, reducing Sentry noise, preventing duplicate events for unsupported post types or missing authors, and enhancing follower error handling and test setup. Centralized core post deletion logic into PostService for reuse and maintainability. In parallel, the Ghost repository introduced ActivityPub webhooks for updates/deletes/unpublishes, upgraded the AP dependency, and optimized the following-list cache to improve UX.

June 2025 monthly summary: Delivered pivotal features and stability improvements across Ghost, ActivityPub, and the SDK stack, with a strong focus on business value, user experience, and developer productivity. The work reduced risk, improved cross-network capabilities, and provided measurable UX and performance benefits for both end users and internal teams.

May 2025 monthly summary for TryGhost development across ActivityPub and Ghost, focusing on delivering business value, improving user engagement, reliability, and developer productivity through system enhancements, stability work, and UX improvements.

April 2025 monthly summary: Focused on unifying and modernizing ActivityPub capabilities, improving UI and reliability, and expanding media support. Delivered consolidated ActivityPub endpoints, enhanced profile and post retrieval with local lookups, introduced image upload capabilities (including Google Cloud Storage) for profiles and ActivityPub content, and added a stubbed account-update endpoint to enable future integration. Also strengthened error handling and loading behaviors to improve user experience and resilience. These efforts reduce webhook load, improve performance, and unlock richer media experiences for Ghost-powered sites.

March 2025: Delivered robust ActivityPub integration and performance improvements across TryGhost repositories. Key features delivered include Delete Post API integration with incoming delete handling, published_at lifecycle with migrations, indexing for feeds/profile ordering, and expanded profile metrics. UX and caching improvements on profile data delivered more accurate like/repost counts and faster updates. Expanded Followers API to surface follower counts and handle non-paginated lists. ActivityPub profile endpoints for posts and likes with pagination were wired up (with API version bump). Major bugs fixed include handling not-found errors on incoming deletes, updating key-value stores on delete, removing dereposted items from feeds, timezone configuration, and timestamp precision improvements across accounts, feeds, and follows. The combined work improved data integrity, query performance, and social metrics visibility, establishing a scalable foundation for future features. Technologies/skills demonstrated include error handling, database migrations and indexing, UTC timezone configuration, timestamp precision tuning, caching strategies, API wiring, pagination, and test reliability improvements.

February 2025 monthly performance summary for TryGhost projects. Focused on delivering core engagement features, strengthening data integrity, and reducing technical debt across TryGhost/ActivityPub and TryGhost/Ghost to improve business value and user experience. Highlights include feature delivery for engagement metrics, persistent data for notes/replies, media-rich feeds, and site-identity alignment for internal accounts, along with UI improvements in Ghost for repost visibility.

January 2025 performance summary for TryGhost/Ghost. Key feature delivered: Member Export Performance Improvements. The changes optimize member export by splitting large SQL queries and shifting aggregation to in-memory processing, with temporary logging to surface bottlenecks. These changes reduce database load and improve export times for large member datasets, delivering measurable business value and improved admin experience. There were no major bug fixes documented this month. Overall, the work demonstrates strong SQL optimization, performance profiling, and instrumentation skills across the Ghost codebase.

December 2024 monthly summary for TryGhost/Ghost. Focused on strengthening reliability, security, and performance for self-hosted deployments while expanding test coverage. Delivered user-facing UX improvements, robust session handling, and streamlined signup workflows to reduce support frictions and accelerate onboarding.

November 2024 monthly summary for TryGhost/Ghost: Delivered reliability, security, and UX enhancements across content editing, authentication, and admin navigation. Key outcomes include robust post data integrity after tag updates, improved reliability and user feedback for 2FA-related email delivery, a staged 2FA rollout with end-to-end testing, and a streamlined navigation management experience for admins. These changes reduce risk of data loss, enhance security posture, improve mobile rendering consistency, and accelerate admin workflows, delivering business value through more reliable content editing, safer staff access, and faster navigation configuration. Technologies/skills demonstrated: end-to-end testing (E2E), feature-flag management (moved staff2fa to BETA_FEATURES), UI/UX improvements in admin navigation, robust error handling for email delivery, and resilient data persistence for post editing.