Today I began work on a new Tumblr theme. I decided I’d start keeping everything related to the blog in GitHub, and develop ‘live’ by pushing CSS updates and working in the Tumblr editor. Great idea, but there’s a problem: trying to load the CSS file doesn’t work right. Most of the time there’s a delay of at least a minute before it loads, even when it’s already in my browser cache. In my cursory search I wasn’t able to find any mention by GitHub for or against using it as a file server. They evidently support it in some capacity since they launched ‘pages’; I may try to set up the needed files as a branch of some sort inside my page repository and see if I can fix it that way. It’d give me a much shorter URL, if nothing else!
So I decided I’d poke around to see if my domain registrar offered anything useful. Turns out I get some free hosting and I can add subdomains and so on, but at the moment they don’t seem to be working. It could be a DNS propagation thing.
While I was involved with that, I discovered I also have a free email address for my domain. With a little fiddling I got that set up and now it’s a transparent alias for my previous primary address at Gmail; everything directed to it is automatically forwarded, and I can easily send as it via Gmail’s web interface or Mail.app.
Now there’s the bother of gradually changing my email address across dozens of websites… but at least it’ll be done if I ever move off Gmail.
