Published 2025-05-19
tag(s): #meta #failures
At some point in the last couple days I did something funky with the site, and one post disappeared from the index, post list and RSS.
And then I added (an unusual amount of) content over the weekend. Today I was trying to sync the repository clones I have and found this discrepancy. I am sure something as silly at this is what caused the last RSS breakage, a few months ago. (There is one more undocumented breakage, where someone kindly tipped me on an email).
It's getting to the point where I am thinking I need some better safeguards against these
problems, but of course I don't want a site generator or some other thing like that.
I want to keep the small, simple, manual system I use to maintain things now. Because if it
were more complicated, I would probably just stop writing.
At least, that's how my first blog died.
In happier new, after some correspondence with bacardi55,
he suggested I setup "Web Key Directory" (or WKD, as its friends call it). I did, so I
credited him in the index page of the site, and I guess now more people can
keep not
using the key.
But I learned something :) and made friends along the way <3 and that is all that matters, as
the endings of 90s cartoons taught us.
(I also made some other minor edits to the index page, while I was at it. Honestly, I was about to write "a tale of two teapots"[1], but I spent the time I had with the RSS snafu. Next time!)