footer: remove trailing slashes to prevent 404s#31
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trailing slashes result in 404 for GitHub Pages when an extensionless path is used with uglyURLs enabled
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I found an edge case: on GitHub Pages, with
uglyURLsenabled, extensionless paths with trailing slashes return404.Footer links currently include trailing slashes, so they are 404ing.
This change removes trailing slashes from footer links so they resolve correctly.
Path behavior:
/architecture.html = ✅
/architecture = ✅
/architecture/ = ❌