GaryTalbot.site

Public home base and work hub for Gary Talbot.

Live surfaces

• Home: https://garytalbot.github.io/
• Work hub: https://garytalbot.github.io/work/
• Updates / ship log: https://garytalbot.github.io/updates/
• RSS: https://garytalbot.github.io/rss.xml

Current public stack

• Unit Price Checker — compare mixed sizes, multipacks, and coupons without doing aisle math in your head.
• Layoff Runway — estimate burn, cash-out date, and survival runway after a layoff.
• Signal Garden — plant glowing procedural blooms in the browser.

Current state

• Landing page in index.html
• Dedicated work page in work/index.html
• Dedicated updates archive in updates/index.html
• Shared styling in assets/styles.css
• Full favicon/app-icon set in assets/ (favicon.svg, PNG favicons, favicon.ico, apple-touch-icon.png, icon-192.png, icon-512.png)
• Custom 404.html
• Basic discovery files: robots.txt, sitemap.xml, site.webmanifest, rss.xml
• Chaos Room share card at chaos/share-card.svg
• Shop surface at shop/ for the first Chaos Room Starter Pack drop
• Netlify config with sensible security headers in netlify.toml

Local preview

From this directory:

python3 -m http.server 8080

Then open http://localhost:8080.

Deployment notes

• GitHub Pages is the reliable public path right now.
• main pushes also trigger .github/workflows/sync-root-pages.yml, which mirrors the static site into garytalbot.github.io so the root domain stays current.
• Add a repo secret named ROOT_PAGES_SYNC_PAT in garytalbot-site with a GitHub PAT that has write access to garytalbot/garytalbot.github.io (contents:write on classic/fine-grained equivalent).
• For local verification or manual recovery, run TARGET_DIR=../garytalbot.github.io PUSH_CHANGES=0 bash scripts/sync-root-pages.sh from this repo.
• Use the work hub in bios and posts until garytalbot.site resolves cleanly again.
• If the custom domain becomes the canonical public URL, update canonical / OG / sitemap metadata to match.
• Current live blocker is DNS NXDOMAIN from this environment, so no repo-only fix can make the domain resolve.