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 # welcome to my ~~video game channel~~ website
-the part that's public, anyway
+the part that's public, anyway --- which is essentially all of it
 
-There's no backend component to my public website, so it's pretty much "open source" anyway—
-you're downloading it if you open the page.
-I wanted to use git to track it anyway, and GitHub is a pretty easy way to move files around.
-(*just to be super clear—compromising my GitHub would not also imply compromising
-my website*)
-I mean, people who use GitHub pages for a personal website are essentially doing what I'm doing but
-with fewer steps
-(except I'm cooler because I have to manage nginx).
+Everything is pretty messy since I don't have a good handle
+on what I want to host at any one time besides just my
+landing page.