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Vercel and post deployment confusion 🤔

May 27, 2026

Documenting the process of adding domains on vercel and exploring new workflow

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O my goodness... So here's the story. I bought a domain name from namecheap and was meant to buy lemdelac.online, but instead bought lemelac.online... which is missing the 'd'. A whole day of confusion because of a spelling mistake. And here I was typing 'lemdelac.online' in my url bar, wondering why it wasn't showing up, blaming "DNS propagation" delay. Geez. Well now I've bought lemdelac.space, so feel free to visit!

Just a little, technical thing I found when deploying on vercel. I get an invalid configuration error unless I use the old records of CNAME: cname.vercel-dns.com and A: 76.76.21.21 first, then use the given records and, and then optionally remove the old records.

Anyway, I've updated my repo to have a dev branch, however, I think I'll still upload blog posts directly to main branch since they dont really need any technical development. I do think It'd be a good idea to link blog posts to some sort of note taking app though but I'm not sure since I don't really use any note-taking apps. (maybe its time to develop my own!?)

I still have things I really want to do for the website as well. including: