John Skelton Site Setup: Domain, GitHub Pages, and Compliance Documentation

Session Date: 2026-01-31
Project: john_skelton (Personal Site)
Focus: Infrastructure setup and documentation enhancement
Session Type: Implementation

Executive Summary

This session established the complete infrastructure for John Skelton’s personal site, from domain research through GitHub Pages deployment. Using Doppler-authenticated Porkbun API calls, we verified domain availability across 9 TLD variations, identifying johnskelton.blog as available at $3.60/year promotional pricing.

The session also enhanced the Leora Home Health compliance analysis document with 17 regulatory links, fixing 2 broken URLs and adding inline hyperlinks to authoritative government sources (EEOC, FLSA, CMS, HIPAA, OIG, SAM, Joint Commission, TWC, IRS).

Key Metrics

Metric	Value
Domains checked	9
Available domains found	5
Regulatory links added/fixed	17
Broken URLs corrected	2
GitHub commits	2
Files modified	2

1. Compliance Document Enhancement

Link Audit Results

Audited _work/leora-policy-compliance-summary.md for missing regulatory links using the content-creator skill.

URLs Verified via Playwright MCP:

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/flsa - Valid
https://exclusions.oig.hhs.gov/ - Valid
https://sam.gov/ - Valid
https://www.jointcommission.org/ - Valid
https://tlc.texas.gov/ - Valid
https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/about-form-w-2 - Valid
https://www.eeoc.gov/guidance - Valid (fixed from /laws/guidance)
https://www.twc.texas.gov/jobseekers/employee-rights-laws - Valid (fixed from /businesses/employment-law)

Broken URLs Fixed:

EEOC: /laws/guidance → /guidance
TWC: /businesses/employment-law → /jobseekers/employee-rights-laws

Inline Links Added:

Line 29: EEOC, FLSA in Key Compliance Areas
Line 65: EEOC section header
Line 80: FLSA section header
Line 84: W-2 reference
Line 95: Texas Legislative Council
Line 123: OIG, SAM exclusion databases
Line 133: CMS section header
Line 186: HIPAA section header
Line 308: Joint Commission
Line 350: Texas Legislative Council (author bio)

Related Resources Section Expanded: Added 7 new authoritative links including DOL FLSA, OIG Exclusions Database, SAM.gov, and Joint Commission.

2. Domain Availability Research

Porkbun API Integration

Used Doppler secrets management with integrity-studio project for authenticated API calls.

doppler run --project integrity-studio --config dev -- bash -c \
  'curl -s -X POST "https://api.porkbun.com/api/json/v3/domain/checkDomain/$domain" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0" \
  -d "{\"apikey\": \"$PORKBUN_API_KEY\", \"secretapikey\": \"$PORKBUN_SECRET_API_KEY\"}"'

Domain Check Results

Domain	Available	Price/yr
johnskelton.com	No	$11.08
jskelton.com	No	$11.08
john-skelton.com	No	$11.08
johnskelton.dev	Yes	$10.81
johnskelton.io	Yes	$28.12
johnskelton.net	Yes	$12.52
johnskelton.blog	Yes	$3.60 (promo)
jskelton.dev	Yes	$10.81
jskelton.net	No	$12.52
skelton.com	No	$11.08
skelton.dev	No	$10.81

Selected Domain: johnskelton.blog - $3.60 first year, $21.11 renewal

Registration Attempt

{"status":"ERROR","message":"No funds."}

User completed registration manually via Porkbun web interface.

3. GitHub Repository Setup

Repository Creation

gh repo create john_skelton --public --source=. --push

Repository URL: https://github.com/aledlie/john_skelton

Commits

7842ce9 - docs(work): add regulatory links and enhance Leora compliance summary
2c84980 - chore: add CNAME for johnskelton.blog custom domain

4. GitHub Pages Configuration

CNAME Setup

echo "johnskelton.blog" > CNAME
git add CNAME && git commit && git push

Pages API Configuration

gh api repos/aledlie/john_skelton/pages -X POST \
  --input - <<< '{"source":{"branch":"main","path":"/"}}'

Response:

{
  "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/aledlie/john_skelton/pages",
  "cname": "johnskelton.blog",
  "html_url": "http://johnskelton.blog/",
  "source": {"branch": "main", "path": "/"},
  "public": true
}

HTTPS certificate issuance initiated (typically 10-15 minutes).

5. Local Development Verification

Jekyll Server Status

lsof -i :4000
# COMMAND   PID          USER   FD   TYPE  NODE NAME
# ruby    70177 alyshialedlie    6u  IPv4  TCP localhost:terabase (LISTEN)

Site confirmed running at http://localhost:4000 with Minimal Mistakes theme.

Files Modified

File	Changes
`_work/leora-policy-compliance-summary.md`	+30/-13 lines (17 links added)
`CNAME`	Created (1 line)

Tools & Integrations Used

Doppler: Secrets management for Porkbun API credentials
Porkbun API: Domain availability checks and registration
GitHub CLI (gh): Repository creation, Pages configuration
Playwright MCP: URL verification via webresearch tools
Jekyll: Local development server

Next Steps

Verify HTTPS certificate issuance at GitHub Pages settings
Enable “Enforce HTTPS” once certificate is ready
Configure DNS if not auto-configured by Porkbun
Review site at https://johnskelton.blog once propagation complete

References

Repository: https://github.com/aledlie/john_skelton
Live Site: https://johnskelton.blog
Porkbun API Docs: https://porkbun.com/api/json/v3/documentation
GitHub Pages Docs: https://docs.github.com/en/pages