A New Coat of Paint
I felt like it was time to do a little cleaning up around my blog.
I’ve spruced up my background and made some tweaks to the CSS. Things should hopefully be a little bit neater.
That’s well and good, but if that were everything I would not be making this post. It’s only some changes, not a full redesign. And that brings me to the next section.
Causing Problems on Purpose
I have also made some more disruptive changes.
The big one is that I am changing my domain name. Goodbye axxuy.xyz, hello axxuy.com
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There are a couple of reasons for this:
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price increases When I originally bought my domain .xyz websites were extremely cheap. But over the years, the price has gradually risen, until now they are comparable to plain old .coms.
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reputation As a result of those former low prices, .xyz domains have acquired a bad reputation around a lot if the internet. To be clear, I am not worrying about what the people who come across my website will think. I am worried about the systems that my website has to take part in to get to people, e.g. getting caught in spam filters.
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annoying to type This last point is rather petty, but I just find “xyz” slightly annoying to type. The y is so far away from the other letters, and you don’t get a clean roll of the fingers.
There’s more. What I was already breaking links, I figured I would do some reorganizing. I also simplified the folders a little.
If you do these things, it really is better to do them all at once.
I’ve been thinking about doing all this for a while, and second guessing myself for as long. I think there’s a certain point where you have to put your doubts aside and just do the thing, even if you aren’t sure about it. Though rest assured, it’s enough of a pain that I’m not going to switching around on a whim again.
Other New Stuff
As I was working on all of this, I heard about something new: the human.json protocol, which provides a simple way for websites to indicate who they trust to be a real human—and who trusts them. I’m a human, and I like human websites, so I’ve added my own human.json .
I also threw together a small tool to generate it for me. You can find it on Codeberg . I hope somebody finds it useful.
Conclusion
That’s all for now, folks. Thanks for bearing with me as I go around stirring things up.
axxuy.xyz will stay up for at least another year or two, and redirect here. Make sure to update your RSS feeds!
