Yesterday afternoon, I was editing the CSS on this blog to fix things like tables, code blocks and the mobile navigation drop-down. I was tweaking color schemes in the Chrome inspection tools, grabbing the CSS from there and dropping it into my repo. At one point, I found out I couldn’t deploy my changes any more.

I searched around for the answer, because I’m still a novice at GitHub pages. My deployments weren’t happening quickly enough to hit the “soft limits” on a free account. I rolled back to a previous version of the CSS via my on-computer backup, with no luck. I even tried deleting the blog’s repo and reloading the entire website, but it always stopped at the deployment stage, with one unpleasant message:

deploy is waiting for github-pages deployment approval

I couldn’t even get a simple index.html loaded. But luckily, I wasn’t the only person experiencing it. Other folks had posted on the GitHub subreddit and community discussions of the deployment issue. They shared the link to the GitHub Status page which showed that yes, there was an outage for a good chunk of last night.

Luckily, the backup deployed this morning without issue, and I still have the blog. I’ll eventually get around to posting non-blog-deployment stuff, but it’s nice to finally get comfortable.