I ran git submodule update --remote --merge and nothing happened. My Hugo theme was stuck at an old version. Turns out I had accidentally replaced the submodule with manually copied files without realizing it. Here’s how I diagnosed the git state mismatch, restored the proper submodule, and fixed the Cloudflare Pages deployment failure that followed.
I accidentally shipped 3MB of unused screenshots to production through my Hugo blog. Deleting them wasn’t enough. They lived forever in git history. Here’s how I investigated, cleaned up, and verified the purge using git filter-repo.
How I built khadirullah.com with Hugo and the Blowfish theme, configured it, and deployed it to Cloudflare Pages for free — with automated Git-push deployments.
How I set up professional email on my custom domain using Zoho Mail and Cloudflare DNS — complete with SPF, DKIM, DMARC authentication, alias routing, and folder-based filtering.
