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 This is the code and generation logic for my film recommendation blog.
 [See the site](https://caalden.github.io/film/) for a better idea of the content.
 
+## Note to the public
+I may have accidentally mischaracterized the extent to which I built the templating for this project. I conflated this
+with a separate project I have (for generating my resume) where in I did build out the code that manages the templating
+as well. In this case, I built out a bunch of custom layouts but hugo is doing the templating. Sorry for the accidental
+misrepresentation.
+
+Most of the notes in this README are for my own personal use. The `scripts/` directory is uncommitted as it contains
+information that should not be committed publicly.
+
 ## Publishing
 To publish updates to the blog, run
 ```bash
 scripts/publish
 ```
-This will regenerate the files and stage the changes for commiting to git
+This will regenerate the files and stage the changes for committing to git
 
 ## Authoring New Content
 To pull down information about a movie and generate the shell of a review, run: