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Favicons
Found inspiration for the Favicon at
gulp livereload
express, gulp-livereload and connect-livereload install an unbearable amount of dependencies, why they are --dev only.
The functionality then turned out to be implemented with browser-sync, which appeared a lot more flexible than integrated solutions with static website generators.
open graph + twitter cards
First there was the animated gif. Then there were rebase, amend and force push.
Only to be superseded by a simple screenshot and few metatags.
ikeda radar merge
The style is kind of clumsy and needs to be refined.