Using GitHub Actions to automate CloudFlare cache purges for GitHub Pages sites
In my previous post about this blog I mentioned using Zapier to clear CloudFlare's cache each time the GitHub Pages build finishes. Since then, GitHub Action...
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In my last post I showed how to get coloured, filtered output from latexmk. Since then I've been using those snippets in a few places, so in the name of redu...
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