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iCloud Mail with iCloud+ custom (Cloudflare) domain name; TextEdit (Apple Mac); “Direct Upload” from Cloudflare Pages’ graphical interface.

“Deploy Your Project” @ Cloudflare.com

(Had to disable Cloudflare’s “Parking Page” before I could “select from computer” → “upload folder.”)

“Disable Landing Page” @ Cloudflare.com

TextEdit settings:

1) “New Document” → “Format” → “Plain text.”

2) “Open and Save” → “When Opening a File” → “Display HTML files as HTML code instead of formatted text.”

“HTML Editors” @ W3Schools.com

Update Jun 2025

In April, Cloudflare quietly announced Cloudflare Pages is in maintenance-only mode:

“Cloudflare Pages will continue to be supported, but, going forward, all of our investment, optimizations, and feature work will be dedicated to improving Workers.”

“Start with Workers” @ blog.Cloudflare.com

Update Nov 2025

Been using Tumult Whisk more than TextEdit. I like it, but:

1) System Light / Dark mode changes often crash it.

2) Unlike TextEdit, you can’t “pinch-to-zoom.”

3) It’s validator is out of date. (For example, it doesn’t recognize “light-dark.”)

4) It’s “synchronize editor and preview scrolling” feature is “dumb” (it doesn’t try to keep elements you’re editing in view). (I think I want a preview to sync to cursor location.)

“Tumult Whisk 2.6” @ Tumult.com

Update Dec 2025

I tried out BBEdit, but:

1) Text doesn’t scroll smoothly with a trackpad.

2) “Preview in BBEdit” always opens a new window, but I hide “Page Guide” and want Preview in its spot.

3) Preview auto-update isn’t included in “Free Mode,” and I already have it in Whisk.

(TextMate and Microsoft’s VS Code have it too. Both are free, but TextMate may be abandoned, and I think I’d prefer not to have to use VS Code.)

4) BBEdit has autosave, but requires confirming save before closing a file; you mayn’t want what may’ve changed, but there’s no “always save” setting.

5) There’s options for “Show invisible characters”; but while you can turn “spaces” off and see no-break space, you can’t see thin space and hair space.

(But it’s difficult to see its indicator for no-break space with spaces on, so it’s still useful to turn off and on.)

(TextEdit can’t show invisibles; Whisk has “Show invisible characters,” but no options, and only shows ordinary spaces, tabs, and line breaks; Pages can’t show “word joiner.”)

(But I can see everything @ InvisibleCharacterViewer.com)

6) It has pinch-to-zoom, but “Actual Size” is in a menu-bar submenu, View → Text Display → Actual Size, so it’s harder to get to than I would like. (You can adjust it from its status bar item, but I think I prefer no status bar.)

7) I don’t think the “Insertion point line highlight” and “Selected text” color contrast is quite right in “BBEdit Dark” (and definitely not right in “Toothpaste”); you can change the colors, but it’s too fiddly for me to want to mess with.

8) “BBEdit User Manual” is (ironically) only available in 452-page PDF.

I liked BBEdit’s “Shift-Delete for forward delete” shortcut, but despite Whisk’s crashing problem (and other shortcomings), I’ll probably stay with Whisk.

“TryIt” @ W3Schools.com

“Optional [HTML] Tags” @ WHATWG.org

“Markup Validation Service” @ W3.org

“Pen” @ CodePen.io

“XML RSS” @ W3Schools.com

“Really Simple Syndication Best Practices” @ RSSBoard.org

“HTML Encode / Escape” @ GitHub.io

“RSS Feed Validator” @ W3.org

“RFC 2822 Converter” @ Time.now

“Now” @ Time.lol

“RSS Autodiscovery” @ RSSBoard.org

“NetNewsWire” @ NetNewsWire.com