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💭 Deleting Code for Performance – David Bushell – ...
Here's my thought on 💭 Deleting Code for Performance – David Bushell – Web Dev (UK) I did not realize that David's site was built on a homegrown Static Site…
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💭 Malicious Traffic and Static Sites - Jim Nielsen...
Here's my thought on 💭 Malicious Traffic and Static Sites - Jim Nielsen’s Blog These look like fun endpoints to add anti-maliciously, give good stuff for the…
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💭 Glossary Web Component – David Bushell – Web Dev...
Here's my thought on 💭 Glossary Web Component – David Bushell – Web Dev (UK) I really enjoy David's Glossary, he has absolutely nailed it. I'm working on one…
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💭 Notes – 09:32 Thu 19 Jun 2025 – David Bushell – ...
Here's my thought on 💭 Notes – 09:32 Thu 19 Jun 2025 – David Bushell – Web Dev (UK) David's design on his blog is fantastic likely from years of small…
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💭 Visualizing My Blog’s Internal Links - Jim Niels...
Here's my thought on 💭 Visualizing My Blog’s Internal Links - Jim Nielsen’s Blog I like Jim's visualizations on his site, reminds me a lot of obsidian. I've…
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💭 Queso Notes
Here's my thought on 💭 Queso Notes Taking this as inspiration to do more non-tech on my blog, I've branched out into gaming, but need take it to the next…
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💭 The ethics of README ads – Will McGugan – Will M...
Here's my thought on 💭 The ethics of README ads – Will McGugan – Will McGugan's essays I've long avoided running ads on my blog for the same reason. For a few…
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💭 feat: add hackernews hits on home page · jimniel...
Here's my thought on 💭 feat: add hackernews hits on home page · jimniels/blog@b1a250b Jim Nielsen fetches his hacker news ranked articles for his home page.…
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💭 Hackernews query by url
Here's my thought on 💭 Hackernews query by url this post by Jim Nielsen, lead me to this commit where I found that he was including posts of his that wound up…
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💭 External Links - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Here's my thought on 💭 External Links - Jim Nielsen’s Blog I really like the idea of Jim's Eternal Links, and really want to take it for myself. To expand…
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💭 wants | maya.land
Here's my thought on 💭 wants | maya.land Allen Carr1 on quitting smoking: [Carr] recommends working to really notice and internalise that disconnect [between…
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💭 Markdown's biggest hater | Knut Melvær - YouTube
Here's my thought on 💭 Markdown's biggest hater | Knut Melvær - YouTube Dang Strong takes against markdown here with a strong push for bespoke content…
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💭 661: Working Vacations, Ripping Out JavaScript, ...
Here's my thought on 💭 661: Working Vacations, Ripping Out JavaScript, and Non-US Clo... Chris hit me where it feels about 10 minutes in. He said he has not…
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💭 Characters - Xe Iaso
Here's my thought on 💭 Characters - Xe Iaso xeiaso, has the coolest characters on her blog. Definitely something I'd like to replicate. I really appreciate…
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💭 There are many Style Guides but this is Mine—zac...
Here's my thought on 💭 There are many Style Guides but this is Mine—zachleat.com Zach's site looks sick colors are all on point, the fonts are so good. I…
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💭 fix double slash in url · WaylonWalker/waylonwal...
Here's my thought on 💭 fix double slash in url · WaylonWalker/waylonwalker.com@93ca7da fixing more ahrefs issues on the road to fixing all major issues within…
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💭 fix json schema · WaylonWalker/waylonwalker.com@...
Here's my thought on 💭 fix json schema · WaylonWalker/waylonwalker.com@deebd40 I found that I had Structured data has schema.org validation error on…
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💭 Weblogging: Part 1 – David Bushell – Web Dev (UK...
Here's my thought on 💭 Weblogging: Part 1 – David Bushell – Web Dev (UK) Long live RSS! Rss is not dead David, you are right there. I really agree with David…
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💭 fix: Open Graph URL not matching canonical · Way...
Here's my thought on 💭 fix: Open Graph URL not matching canonical · WaylonWalker/wayl... In fixing a bunch of meta tags, I introduced Open Graph URL not…
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💭 Cotton Coder – David Bushell – Web Dev (UK)
Here's my thought on 💭 Cotton Coder – David Bushell – Web Dev (UK) I like Davids idea for cotton coder here, reminds me a lot of thoughts , which turns out to…
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fragmention
This post is still WIP. ..... I've been digging through David Bushell's blog over the past day, he has some really good ideas about blogging and webdev. One really interesting post I came accross is url-fragment-text-directives . I've long had id's linked on my headings, though sometimes broken, or now showing the link, I've done my best to include them. Fragmentions extend this to allow any text to be linkable like this. fragmentioner ui: fragmentioner js: Examples
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💭 Chris Coyier
Here's my thought on 💭 Chris Coyier Interesting thoughts here on blog post titles, do we need them? They are so ingrained into everything. It makes me think…
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ahrefs-cleanup-2024
This post is a big work in progress, expect it to keep getting better. Initial Score image 404 Not Found, generate a page for each tag image Title too long image 404 Not Found, comma separated tags Another hit on 404's caused by tags, was tag parsing from thoughts into posts, this cause links to the full comma separated list of tags rather than one per tag. image You can see on the website the whole dang set of tags was being treated as a single tag. image Broken images I'm not fully sure what h
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markdown split panel
Today I was playing with markdown split panels. I want to be able to compare and constrast occasionually, today the inspiration hit to do this using admonitions. screenshot-2025-02-04T02-28-46-750Z.png {.rounded-xl } The Markdown This is what I am going for, one admonition that is easy to remember, that nests inside of itself , and I can put as much markdown on the inside that I want. Here is the result of that markdown.
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markdown it attrs with slashes dont work
Attrs does not like '/' characters in its classes, so to use some tailwind classes with custom values we must make new classes in our tailwind input css. Given the following markdown with attrs added to the image and to the paragraph block. We get the following output with only the middle one working correctly. screenshot-2025-01-31T14-50-00-094Z.png {.aspect-[2.39/1]} screenshot-2025-01-31T14-50-00-094Z.png screenshot-2025-01-31T14-50-00-094Z.png
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pesos
Pesos is the act of Publish Elsewhere Syncicate to Own Site. It is an indieweb concept that I recently started applying to my own site. here does it skip again In short it is the concept of pulling data from other sites that you use and republishing it to your own site. This gives a single source of information for you, and protection against sites and apis changing or rug pulling. Other people might have a lot more use cases for this, but I already begin a lot of my data right on my site. GitHu
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💭 Why I Write
Here's my thought on 💭 Why I Write It's interesting how many people in tech maintain a blog. I think part of this brings us back to web 1.0 days when so many…
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💭 bic | Static blog generator, in bash
Here's my thought on 💭 bic | Static blog generator, in bash Intereresting someone built a blog generator in bash. it comes with normal markdown to html,…
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💭 Realign – Chris Coyier
Here's my thought on 💭 Realign – Chris Coyier Chris Coyier had a small re-align on his site, some good nuggets in here. I like the idea of having a photo of…
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/colophon
Colophon a page that describes how the site is made, with what tools, supporting what technologies Author Waylon Walker's Profile Picture All posts on this site are written by Waylon Walker , the typical content has changed and evolved over time. I go back and make a few corrections, but for the most part things stay pretty much as they were published originally. see more in about tech This site is a static site build with my own static site generator markata , thoughts or as Simon Willison call
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💭 Changelog • Robb Knight
Here's my thought on 💭 Changelog • Robb Knight Well done changelog with some really good inspirational nuggets. Many slash pages I want to check out and an…
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💭 slash pages
Here's my thought on 💭 slash pages A nice list of slashpages you might want to consider including / aliasing / 301ing. These feel like nice things to setup…
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💭 My approach to running a link blog
Here's my thought on 💭 My approach to running a link blog I still cannot believe I thought I had such a unique idea with thoughts only to find out shortly…
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💭 How I use Obsidian Templater
Here's my thought on 💭 How I use Obsidian Templater I really like this idea of keeping a set up contacts in a markdown repo, and being able to wikilink them…
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💭 Damn, I love dropper already
Here's my thought on 💭 Damn, I love dropper already Damn I'm loving using dropper already, I am able to copy paste images right into posts on thoughts. This…
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💭 How to make your RSS feed pretty
Here's my thought on 💭 How to make your RSS feed pretty I love me some styled rss, it's how the OG internet was made to be. You choose what you want to read…
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💭 Dropper
Here's my thought on 💭 Dropper Dropper is a place for me to drop files for quick posts like this. image This post was a thought by Waylon Walker see all my…
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💭 statically makes OG images **easy**
Here's my thought on 💭 statically makes OG images easy Staically makes creating OG images so easy, you can just pop this in your section with some og tags.…
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blogging in 2024
Over the past years couple of years blog traffic has been tanking, for some time I thought it might have just been me, but then i heard it from Dave Rupert on Shop Talk show, and it made sense. LLMs and AI is slowly killing the internet as we know it. My metrics I dug into my emails from the google search console team and found two results nearly one year apart. Impressions are only 60% of its value a year ago while clicks are only 35% of where they were a year ago. I'm getting less impressions
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Trying Obsidian
I am giving obsidian a try, this is a test post to learn the flow. Something that has been really hard for me for a long time is images, I don't include a lot of images just because it takes so much longer just to get the post out. I store them in a separate repo, I need to resize and compress them for the web so they aren't so big. Images are easy This is my current wallpaper. trying-obsidian-20240731135759007.webp I took he screenshot and just pasted it in. I have more about my process in this
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Obsidian Image Converter
I'm giving obsidian a go as an editor for my blog and one of the main things I want to fix in my workflow is the ability to quickly drop in images. on first look through the community plugins I found Image Converter. I set it up to convert to webp and drop them in a git submodule. I may make it something other than a git repo in the future, but I've learned that adding images to my blog repo quickly makes it heavy and hard to clone on other machines. obsidian-image-converter-20240731211310793.we
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💭 he's back again
Here's my thought on 💭 he's back again Wyatt is again inspired to leave his thoughts on the world while watching me take notes on the zettelkasten method.…
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💭 Note-taking with Zettelkasten - An Introduction ...
Here's my thought on 💭 Note-taking with Zettelkasten - An Introduction - YouTube Niklas Luhmann created the Zettelkasten method of notetaking, He was the Da…
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💭 Email Address Obfuscation · Cloudflare Web Appli...
Here's my thought on 💭 Email Address Obfuscation · Cloudflare Web Application Firewal... I recently started seeing email-decode.min.js show up on my blog…
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💭 Welcome to RSS Club - daverupert.com
Here's my thought on 💭 Welcome to RSS Club - daverupert.com Super cool idea, kinda breaking the rules by talking about it here, but Its a cool idea to throw…
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💭 Blogmarks that use markdown
Here's my thought on 💭 Blogmarks that use markdown Oh I kinda like the name blogmark, as opposed to thoughts like I have chose for the same thing. Aparantly…
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💭 A Link Blog in the Year 2024
Here's my thought on 💭 A Link Blog in the Year 2024 THIS! is the same reasons that I built thoughts . Simon has bee a big inspiration along the way. He…
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💭 A Link Blog in the Year 2024 | Kellan Elliott-Mc...
Here's my thought on 💭 A Link Blog in the Year 2024 | Kellan Elliott-McCrea: Blog Kellan brings some interesting thoughts on where the internet is headed in…
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Thoughts
These are generally my thoughts on a web page or some sort of url, except a rare few don't have a link. These are dual published off of my thoughts.waylonwalker.com site. It's a fully dynamically rendered site 2000's style. Posts are stored in a database and instantly available. Almost all of the posts were written in a small field within a chrome extension that I built for it. These posts are intended to in two ways. One, link building for the author. I hope that I give the people helping me ou
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💭 Using Netlify Analytics to Build a List of Popul...
Here's my thought on 💭 Using Netlify Analytics to Build a List of Popular Posts - Jim... This is a sick feature of Jim's blog, I am really inspired by this. I…
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💭 605: Jim Nielsen on Subversive URLs, Blogging + ...
Here's my thought on 💭 605: Jim Nielsen on Subversive URLs, Blogging + AI, and Design... An absolute fantastic episode about blogging, thinking about a web1.0…
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💭 searching my thoughts locally
Here's my thought on 💭 searching my thoughts locally First I need to fetch my thoughts from the api, and put it in a local sqlite database using . Now that I…
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💭 Waylon Walker (getting focus'd fokais.com) on X:...
Here's my thought on 💭 Waylon Walker (getting focus'd fokais.com) on X: "Bloggers whe... Most bloggers on my twitter blog right into a file that goes on git.…
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💭 Why YOU should write a blog
Here's my thought on 💭 Why YOU should write a blog Nice message by @tusharsadhwani . Write it down. You had to dig deeper than face value at something. Write…
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I Started Streaming on Twitch
I recently started streaming on twitch.tv/waylonwalker and it's been a blast so far. python kedro Data Science Data Engineering webdev digital gardening Kedro Spaceflights It all started with kedro/issues/606 , Yetu called out for users of kedro to record themselves doing a walk through of their tutorials. I wanted to do this, but was really stuck at the fact that recording or editing somewhat polished vide is quite time consuming for me. kedro-issue-606 Inspiration My introduction to twitch cam
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Blogging For Me
I create this blog with one person in mind, me. There are others like me This is not completely selfish, as there are likely many others out there that think similarly to me. Everyone comes from different backgrounds and varying levels of experience. In no way do you need to be an expert to create content others will benefit from. Accurate I am as accurate as possible. I don't know everything, and If I waited for that to happen I would never post, or write at such a high level no one else (inclu
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Markdown Cli
This is a post that may be a work in progress for awhile, Its a collections of thoughts on managing my blog, but could be translated into anythiung that is just a collection of markdown. Listing things posts tags draft posts data frontmatter filepath content template html render content Markdown.Markdown support extentsions frontmatter cleaning. provide ways to hook in or clean up the frontmatter Markata.Markata methods load render save Markata.Post methods load render save Markata plugins befor
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My Content Strategy For 2021
I am making another push in 2021 to get my content out in the world and meeting users where they are. See how I plan to execute. Platforms waylonwalker.com Twitter DEV hashnode Medium LinkedIn Anchor Markdown My content is written in markdown, all markdown. I find that markdown does a really great job at getting out of the way and letting ideas flow onto the page. I am never fussing with fonts and formatting while physically writing posts. Not that I don't spend way more time than I need to twea
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Automating my Post Starter
One thing we all dread is mundane work of getting started, and all the hoops it takes to get going. This year I want to post more often and I am taking some steps towards making it easier for myself to just get started. When I start a new post I need to cd into my blog directory, start neovim in a markdown file with a clever name, copy some frontmatter boilerplate, update the post date, add tags, a description, and a cover. Todo List for starting a post frontmatter template Title slug tags date
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Adding Audio to my blog posts
This is episode 1 of the Waylon Walker Audio experience, posts from waylonwalker.com in audio form. So I have had this idea for awhile to add audio to my blog posts. The idea partly comes from the aws blog, if you have ever been on their blog you will have noticed that they have a voiced by amazon polly section. What to Expect Honestly I don't know this is all new to me and I dont have much to go off of. For now its a test that may or may not work out. I will say that the time that I have availa
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Expand One Line Links
I wanted a super simple way to cross-link blog posts that require as little effort as possible, yet still looks good in vanilla markdown in GitHub. I have been using a snippet that puts HTML into the markdown. While this works, it's more manual/difficult for me does not look the best, and does not read well as Goals for new card The new card should be fully automated to expand with title, description, and cover image. Bonus if I am able to attach a comment behind it. fully automated card expansi
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How to crush amazing posts on DEV
This post was inspired by a comment I left on @dsteenman's post. Most of the time I prefer short as I am more likely to read the whole thing. If its setup as a series I am more likely to work my way through the whole series in a matter of a few sessions. Just my preference I will say though there are certain articles that fit well to the long format. They are articles that folks tend to come back to often as a reference again and again. Sections layout is key Break it up Article types superpost
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Edit On GitHub
I recently added a button to my blog, and subsequently my posts on DEV.to . It's the best thing that I have done for it in a while. It makes it so easy to do quick edits. finding errors I refer back to my old posts quite a bit, sometimes I find errors in them. Honestly most of the time its too much effort to load up my editor make the change and and . It's not much, but when I am referring to my own post generally I am just trying to get something done and don't have time for that. The slug The
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🙋♂️ Can Anyone Explain Twitter Cards to me?
Can someone explain how or why twitter cards render differently from device to device? I do understand that twitter cards a built from meta tags, the full list can be found in their docs Rendered on Mobile Mobile Looks fine. rendered card Not Rendered on Desktop On Desktop it is not picking up the image. not rendered card Twitter Card Validator The Validator renders the card correctly. I tried the official twitter card validator , as well as heymeta.com , and metatags.io . All look good. rendere
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Refactoring your blog urls
I just did a quick refactoring of my JAMStack blog urls. Some didn't fit with my style, some had that I wanted to switch to , and others were ridiculously long. I've been using forestry as my CMS, I write many of my posts there, and sometimes it picks some crazy file names (based on my titles). It was time to refactor. refactor-in-cli When refactorings similar to this get really big I often need to do some project wide find an replace, I usually do this right from the command line. 🖊 Rename post
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How to get Dev Comments from an article Url
I want to incorporate some of the wonderful comments, \U0001F495, \U0001F984, and \U0001F516's that I have been getting on dev.to on my website. I have dabbled once or twice with no avail this time I am taking notes on my journey, so follow along and let's get there together. By the end of this post, I will have a way to get comments from posts on the client-side thanks to the wonderfully open dev.to API. I want to incorporate some of the wonderful comments, 💕, 🦄, and 🔖's that I have been gettin
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I finally fixed my Styled-Components in gatsby.js
I finally fixed my Styled-Components in gatsby.js. I am starting a redesign of my website. I have started cross posting to dev.to more regularly. With that I have been making more detailed cover images at the recommended . These images get cut off on my own site, which is a bit ridiculous to have my own content not look right on my own site. But before we start a heavy redesign I have a small issue that has plagued the site for at least a year! I have a small issue that has plagued the site for
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Personal URL shortener with Netlify Redirects
I love using URL shorteners to easily share links without hitting character limits, but they loose their meaning. Services like bit.ly will save my links for me so that I can find them, but I would rather them to be easy to remember. https://bit.ly/2ruLwQz does not roll of the tongue so well. 301 🤸♀️ I recently discovered a really cool feature of netlify that I have always looked past, . It is so simple cool and powerful, every netlify site should do this! But how 🤷♀️ simply add a file to the