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I figured out a minimal pattern for building a completely custom website using GitHub Actions and deploying the result to GitHub Pages, so I wrote it up as a TIL til.simonwillison.net/github-actio...

til.simonwillison.netBuilding and deploying a custom site using GitHub Actions and GitHub PagesI figured out a minimal pattern for building a completely custom website using GitHub Actions and deploying the result to GitHub Pages.

18/3/25, 7:59 pm8 reposts143 likes

Aaron Wislang 🇨🇦

@aaronw.dev

18 Mar 2025

This is awesome. I'll definitely be using this approach!

Simon Willison

@simonwillison.net

18 Mar 2025

I'm using this pattern to generate myself an Atom feed of recent @inaturalist.bsky.social sightings of California Brown Pelicans so I can see them in @netnewswire.com github.com/simonw/recen...

pamelafox.bsky.social

@pamelafox.bsky.social

18 Mar 2025

should this 404? simonw.github.io/recent-calif... i love inaturalist, i did a RAG on bees today and had an excuse to bring up my inaturalist observations! www.inaturalist.org/observations...

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pamelafox.bsky.social

@pamelafox.bsky.social

18 Mar 2025

someone was like "do grey bees even exist??" and i'm like "THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME AN EXCUSE TO BRING UP INATURALIST, THE NEXT 5 MINUTES OF THIS STREAM WILL BE DEVOTED TO THE JOYS OF DIGGER BEES"

pamelafox.bsky.social

@pamelafox.bsky.social

18 Mar 2025

ohh i found the ATOM feed: simonw.github.io/recent-calif... update the link in your repo description? (the right-hand one)

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Sean Reifschneider

@linsomniac.bsky.social

19 Mar 2025

Funny, I also spent some time over the last couple days using Github Actions to publish a website, in my case it is an apt repo for uv. linsomniac.com/post/2025-03...

linsomniac.comBuilding and Publishing Apt Repos to Github PagesDownload, package, and publish software as a apt repo on Github Pages