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Daniel leads technical product work for Microsoft’s Decentralized Identity initiative. Before Microsoft, he founded a startup out of college, then spent 5 years helping to shape the Web at Mozilla. As for code projects, he authored X-Tag (a Web Components sugar library supported by Microsoft), and continues to work on web standards through participation in various W3 groups. You can check out his GitHub profile for more.

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S(GH)PA: The Single-Page App Hack For GitHub Pages

Currently, GitHub Pages doesn’t offer a route-handling solution; the Pages system is intended to be a flat, simple mechanism for serving basic project content. GitHub does provide one morsel of customization for your project website: the ability to add a 404.html file and have it served as your custom error page. Turns out that many folks have experienced the same issue with GitHub Pages and liked the general idea. However, the problem that some folks on Twitter correctly raised was that the 404.html page is still served with a status code of 404. The gauntlet had been thrown down, and in this article, Daniel Bauchner decided to answer — and answer with vigor! Read more…