When signing up on Mastodon, I wanted to include a verified link to my GitHub. GitHub allows for adding HTML to your profile repository, but this does not come through as a verified link. I came across a great blog post by Simon Willison giving a detailed look at setting up a quick GitHub Pages redirect.
The concept is make a new repo, GITHUB_USERNAME.github.io, then add a page called index.html. My redirect snippet can be viewed in my GitHub Repository. At the time of writing, my index.html is as follows:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title>Redirecting to github.com/overtfuture</title>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; URL=https://github.com/overtfuture">
<link href="https://github.com/overtfuture" rel="me">
<link href="https://nathangrey.dev" rel="me">
<link href="https://studioember.com" rel="me">
<link href="https://mastodon.social/@ngrey" rel="me">
</head>
<body style="margin: 0; padding: 0">
Auto redirect to GitHub
<a href="https://github.com/overtfuture">
github.com/overtfuture
</a>
</body>
</html>
This makes a bare minimum site that includes a simple page that will redirect via browser to a GitHub profile and allow for verification on Mastodon.
