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I've made a few changes to this site and wanted to give some updates.

Hosting

Firstly, this site is no longer self-hosted. I (truthfully) said it was in my first post, Favourites 1, but on the 4th of October that year I switched to Cloudflare Pages. My website is still built as a folder of HTML, CSS, PNG, and TTF files, which I version-control with Git. I have a remote copy of this Git repository on GitHub. This remote repository and my local one both have two branches: live and main. I work on main, and when I'm ready I push my changes to the remote's main. Then, Cloudflare Pages (whom I have asked to monitor my GitHub repository) notices the new commit and creates a new “deployment”. This deployment lets me see what my website would be like if I were to actually deploy it to onetruegnu.com, except that it has a URL something like gobbledegook.onetruegnu-com.pages.dev. The gobbledegook makes it difficult for someone to get at one of these “internal” deployments, though they have no authentication so you could with enough effort. (It would be similar to cracking a password, in my unenlightened estimation) I can then poke around this deployment in my browser to make sure nothing is messed up, and pass it to my RSS reader to check that everything is good there. Once I am convinced everything is OK, I can merge my changes into live, and push. Then, Cloudflare again creates a deployment, but puts this one under onetruegnu.com, since I have told it that live is the production branch.

Though it is of course a risk to give yourself additional dependencies, I evaluate the cost to be acceptable in comparison to the benefit, since I will not have to convert any API calls or the like to a new format if Cloudflare disappears. All that would be necessary is to find someone else to host my folder, or do it myself.

Styling

It's left-align time! I feel more relaxed reading this website now that its headings and navigation are on the left. I also realized that I had incorrectly been specifying my italic font variants, so the browser was just doing its built-in italics-ification, instead of using the proper italics variant. Further, there are now dates to the left of each post in the blog index, instead of bullets.

Readership

My current estimation based on my analytics is that no humans actually read this website and every request I get is from a bot.