It’s not dangerous in this case, if $tmpdir was unset, all that would happen is rm -r $tempdir complaining about a missing operand. The only issue I can see this causing is that if mktemp -d fails rm would print an unhelpful error message. Using rm -rf instead would hide it, so could could checking the variable and conditionally running rm -r, as you suggested.

I use PearDarkCursors

I’ve seen “small web” used to describe personal sites and blogs in HTTP-land for a while, like how Kagi is using the term. I think it just so happens, due to the nature of protocols like Gopher and Gemini, all of the content there is very personal, so it gets described as small web.

cult. just means “creatura” is closer to Latin creatūra. Also, as far as I know, the RAE doesn’t list any misspellings. I’d take them acknowledging it exists as a word to be enough for it to count as “proper” Spanish.

La Real academia española lists “creatura” as a synonym of criatura