I'm not clicking through until you do sorry. Good luck with the multipart series.
When you know about the security properties of using the HTTP protocol over internet, and proceed to visit a read-only plain-HTTP website, your attention and time are used up unnecessary on thoughts like “did the author really include this bit of content, or is it being MITM’ed?” with no inexpensive way to find out.
Yeah, ssl probably matters & other people will prefer a different “step 1”, but it’s cool to see people share their lessons learned & process. And it’s smart to make use of the byproducts of your work.
Many designers use a “mood board” early in their process to establish the target feel of their project. Your explanation of wanting to choose a color that felt “futuristic and brave” reminded me of that approach. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mood_board
Usually you run Let's Encrypt with something like EFF's certbot, and then you certainly get lots of help to have up-to-date certificates, as long as you installed it in a way so it automatically runs (via cron or whatever you use).
I really like it, because it lets me know when I need to go in and kick certbot.
- https://www.nginx.com/blog/using-free-ssltls-certificates-fr...