Self-hosting my own blog has been a joyful experience of, every six months, getting reported that images fail to load on old posts because of a tweak to Nginx configs for the HTTPS site at some point in the arbitrary past. When did we make the Internet so ()#%(& complicated.
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At some point in there I replaced the images* subdomains with a CDN, but when I upgraded the site to HTTPS, the fact that my CDN couldn't usefully use a HTTP certificate for my own domain name made me bring them back onto a server under my control.
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At some point, as a weekend project, I upgraded the blog to HTTPS everywhere, but did not test this upgrade on my (relatively rare) posts which contained images in the body.
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