diff --git a/content/_index.md b/content/_index.md
index 7a53035..9ef7027 100644
--- a/content/_index.md
+++ b/content/_index.md
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
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+title = "home"
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 I'm a software engineer with an affinity for low level and functional
 programming. My favorite languages to work with are Zig, Rust, Erlang, and the
 venerable C. I want to build high performance and fault tolerant systems, and to
diff --git a/layouts/partials/head.html b/layouts/partials/head.html
index e09b60c..4afa234 100644
--- a/layouts/partials/head.html
+++ b/layouts/partials/head.html
@@ -17,5 +17,5 @@
   {{- end }}
 {{- end }}
 {{ end }}
-<title>{{ if .IsHome }}{{ site.Title }}{{ else }}{{ printf "%s | %s" .Title site.Title }}{{ end }}</title>
+<title>{{ printf "%s - %s" site.Title .Title }}</title>