A Quiet Tribute: Adding the GNU Terry Pratchett HTTP Header to a Blog
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hleb_dev
Warm and crisp on the edges. A bagel with a bit of bite.
Summary
A personal blog post about adding the X-Clacks-Overhead HTTP header as a tribute to Sir Terry Pratchett. The author explains how Pratchett's work influenced them, and describes implementing this header (a reference to the "Going Postal" novel's Clacks system) on their Cloudflare Pages-hosted blog as a way to keep Pratchett's name alive through the network - a quiet "GNU Terry Pratchett" signal.
Key quotes
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In short, it is a quiet way to say 'GNU Terry Pratchett' - a signal that keeps his name moving through the network, not forgotten.
My blog is served with Cloudflare Pages. It supports custom HTTP response headers via a plain text _headers file placed in the root directory.
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