BLOG: More and more changes. I'm thinking about finally implementing those buttons I conceptualized (see V1.0 blog), and adding sounds (another planned feature of mine).
BLOG: Finally sat down and got some time to work on this thing. Phew, what a week!
Updating the site got really complicated, I messed up a lot of things and had to spend the night learning more about how GitHub works.
So, first off, it was probably all my fault. I was thinking of just how easy this whole thing about web development was. Just plopping in a repository with an index in it, and you got a website! Words of a naive man....
To begin with, I wanted to push this update to the site, but ended up uploading the site folder instead of the files themselves. So now, on the rep, I had the old site, and a folder inside with a new, updated copy of the site. And turns out, you cannot delete folders and files in the GitHub web interface, as pointed out by an answer on the forums. I had to get Git and Github Desktop and figure out how everything worked just to patch up my mistake.
I'd love to share the details, but if you want to read about a man suffering to pay for his mistakes and unrealistic expectations, there's much more entertaining stuff about it in the world.
Then, the DNS was stuck in a perpetual loop of verification. Believe me, I spent days looking into what could possibly be causing the error that made the site go offline for some time. It turned out, for some reason when I pushed the new commit with GitHub Desktop, it used the custom domain I was testing out earlier. This made me develop the habit of grinding my teeth stressfully everytime I hear the name "Github" being mentioned.
But, everything turned out right in the end. Happy, happy ending... until I stumble across an even more bigger problem, that is...
MORAL OF THE STORY: Don't rely on the easy stuff.
BLOG: Journal on TWHL.