Ain’t this meta. No content here, just a few random stats, indices and other not terribly useful bits and bobs, here so I can vaguely inspect the outputs of the spaghetti code mess that emits this little digital scrap-heap.
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56 collections of documents:
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beliefs
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628 pages
July 13, 2024 6.32pm
June 25, 2024 12.10am
Carl von Clausewitz, On War
Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Pete Millspaugh, Things I found interesting in Bonnie Nardi’s “A Small Matter of Programming”
Craig Mod, Continuous Uninterrupted Solo Walks
May 4, 2024 11.29am
Sara Hendren, not that kind of constraint
Werner Herzog, Of Walking in Ice
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
Paul Holdengräber, Adam Phillips, The Art of Nonfiction No. 7
John Muir
Jared White, Why I’m Ready to Party Like It’s 1999…Again
Paul Graham, The Best Essay
Paul Graham, The Best Essay
Dan Luu, Diseconomies of scale in fraud, spam, support, and moderation
Publilius Syrus
March 4, 2024 4.56pm
Cory Doctorow, Pluralistic: Pluralistic is four; The Bezzle excerpt (Part III)
Melvin E. Conway, How Do Committees Invent?
John Gall, Systemantics: How Systems Really Work and How They Fail
February 27, 2024 8.48pm
Ran Prieur, Feeling Good
February 22, 2024 7.19pm
Jacob Collier, On managing the complexity of virtual collaborations
Jacob Collier, On managing the complexity of virtual collaborations
Mike Grindle, Some Thoughts in Lieu of an Abandoned Post
Roger Ebert, Life Itself
Where are you peculiar?
Jamie Crisman, Getting Out, Getting Lost
Robin Berjon, Web Tiles
January 21, 2024 1.27pm
Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
Why the walk?
What are you doing again?
From Triglav
The first hundred days
Hurdling over the Dolomites
Sunshine, windburn, summat to do with summits
Between the mountains and the First Two Pages of Frankenstein
At play with photography in Innsbruck
Finding joy
Picturing people on the walk
What's not to like?
✉ More photographs than footsteps or words
✉ Thinking about the shape of the walk
✉ I hope the cows don't mind
✉ Joining the North Downs Way
✉ A walking day
✉ The last of the familiar faces
✉ Catch up with mum
✉ A trip down memory lane
✉ Sensible shoes
✉ A warm welcome to the walk
Via Francigena
Books (maybe) for the walk
The countries in between
Before the walk
Walking to India
Lessons from the back of beyond
Long gone in the back of beyond
The sunburnt country
Half a world away
A short walk beneath a long white cloud
The man who walked too fast
The forests of Northland
Beauty and the beach
A short walk
SEP 60: A stricter metadata vocabulary
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SEP 59: Manifest test
SEP 58: Define asset transformations within manifest
SEP 57: Reference/include any file from/in documents
SEP 55: Syntax for tasks and spaced repitition cards
SEP 54: Sidenotes
SEP 53: Metadata switch uid to key
SEP 52: Convert all datetime objects to be timezone aware
SEP 51: Conflict free editing
SEP 50: A personal taxonomical structure
SEP 49: Handler for asset referencing
SEP 48: Remove assets from notes directory
SEP 47: Separate present from memory
SEP 46: Per document changelogs
✅ SEP 45: Transclusion of documents
SEP 44: Short Reference Syntax
SEP 43: Distinguish types, classes, tags in collections
SEP 42: Expose Abstract Syntax Tree (AST)
✅ SEP 41: New metadata element: class
SEP 40: Graphs and maps: contextualising with visualisations
SEP 39: Metadata: Enhanced location
✅ SEP 38: Document Type: References
✅ SEP 37: Convention for use of singular v. plural in metadata
SEP 36: Build a link archive
SEP 35: Incremental builds
SEP 34: Overhaul image pipeline
SEP 33: Substantive revision metadata
🏗 SEP 32: Remove tags from index pages
SEP 31: Add title elements to internal links
SEP 30: Adjust site style to permit offsetting
SEP 29: Include every file in the data tree
SEP 28: Check for slug collisions
SEP 27: Split stylesheet into components
🏗 SEP 26: Make page/site metadata accessible from HTML
✅ SEP 25: Fix footer to bottom of viewport
SEP 24: Case of frontmatter keys
SEP 23: Language metadata
SEP 22: Frontmatter Formatting
SEP 21: Reject relative URLS
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✅ SEP 19: Add a sitewide count of backlinks
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SEP 15: Switch to RSS for feeds (currently using Atom)
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SEP 13: Switch to a more reasonable source markup language
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SEP 9: Metadata: Document alts
🏗 SEP 8: Create a shorthand for proposals
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SEP 6: Insert image dimensions into figures at build time
SEP 5: Definition of breadcrumb navigation within metadata
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SEP 1: URL traversal/scoping/discovery
Proposals for the improvement of this site
Jason Scott, Archiving in the Time of Streaming
September 17, 2023 11.08am
September 21, 2023 8.59am
September 30, 2023 2.27pm
Categories as taxonomy, tags as folksonomy
September 20, 2023 6.58pm
September 20, 2023 6.47pm
September 20, 2023 2.11pm
September 20, 2023 10.50am
September 19, 2023 6.04pm
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Jacques-Yves Cousteau, The Human, the Orchid, and the Octopus: Exploring and Conserving Our Natural World
September 5, 2023 9.25am
August 10, 2023 10.43am
August 18, 2023 6.01pm
Add HEIF image support
July 11, 2023 8.38am
Vaber
July 10, 2023 7.56pm
July 5, 2023 7.54pm
July 5, 2023 9.43am
G.K. Chesterton, The New Jersusalem
David Pierce, Who killed Google Reader?
Fix: Images no longer clickable when non-modal
July 8, 2023 6.06pm
Google, Google Earth
June 30, 2023 4.02pm
June 30, 2023 3.17pm
June 22, 2023 8.17am
June 29, 2023 9.56pm
June 20, 2023 11.36pm
Lao Tzu, The Tao Te Ching
June 16, 2023 9.17pm
June 16, 2023 6.52pm
June 16, 2023 6.09pm
June 15, 2023 4.42pm
June 13, 2023 4.41pm
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
Craig Mod & Dan Rubin, Koya Bound: Eight Days on the Kumano Kodo
June 5, 2023 11.00pm
June 3, 2023 2.57pm
N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society
Jef Raskin, The Humane Interface
May 27, 2023 2.29pm
Dramatic Identity
Nigel Calder
May 18, 2023 3.32pm
May 18, 2023 2.00pm
Giacomo Casanove
Helen Keller, Let Us Have Faith
Eric Hoffer, The Temper of Our Time
May 15, 2023 12.30am
Werner Herzog
Bessie A. Stanley, What Constitutes Success?
May 7, 2023 9.28pm
Fire of Love
Nhat Hanh, How to Love
Not That Kind of Love
May 5, 2023 11.42pm
Dead Poets Society
Temple Grandin
May 1, 2023 3.31pm
May 1, 2023 3.08pm
May 1, 2023 3.08pm
May 1, 2023 12.26pm
Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
Feynman: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
Richard Feynman, Feynman: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
April 30, 2023 1.47pm
Daniel Lawrence Lu, DLLU
A love of files
April 29, 2023 9.43pm
April 29, 2023 9.26pm
Richard Feynman, Feynman: The pleasure of Finding Things Out
Switched from markdown to Djot
April 22, 2023 9.24pm
smitty1e, Jokes are the unit tests of our understanding
April 20, 2023 10.58am
April 20, 2023 8.30am
April 20, 2023 12.50am
Linking forwards
April 19, 2023 10.27pm
D.H. Lawrence
John Berger, Ways of Seeing
Ansel Adams
Wouter Groeneveld, Cool Things People Do With Their Blogs
When you have the right building in the wrong location
Jamie Zawinski, Technological Antisolutions
Arthur C. Train & Robert Williams Wood, The Man Who Rocked the Earth
How to find your mum's keys after she's given up hope
April 19, 2023 10.26am
April 18, 2023 2.24pm
Implement document transclusion
Transclusion
April 18, 2023 12.49am
Matt Webb, I wish my web server were in the corner of my room
Out beyond the edge of the map
April 17, 2023 9.12pm
Monsieur Lazhar
Tymeful
April 17, 2023 3.35pm
April 17, 2023 3.06pm
April 17, 2023 2.52pm
Knut Melvær, Thoughts On Markdown
Wikipedia, 2008 Universal Studios fire
Ryan J. A. Murhpy, When and how to publish notes: Publishing thinking effectively and efficiently
Kyle Neath, URL Design
April 16, 2023 10.19pm
Navalny
Metadata overhaul
April 15, 2023 5.35pm
My future children and me.
Make page/site metadata accessible from HTML
Atomic Design — Brad Frost
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds
April 13, 2023 4.57pm
April 13, 2023 4.46pm
unknown
Temple Grandin
I can eat cake!
Merlin Mann, Merlin's Wisdom Project
April 12, 2023 8.59pm
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, Mother Night
Kyle Aster, Toward a More Resilient Future
Kyle Aster, Taste and The Zen of GitHub
That Which Is Seen, and That Which Is Not Seen
Shōtetsu, Snow in a Garden
Aaron Swartz, Release Late, Release Rarely
Maciej Cegłowski
April 11, 2023 7.06pm
unknown
Jason Scott, destruction
Fix footer to viewport bottom
Ask Culture meets Guess Culture
April 8, 2023 11.51pm
Strategy Letter IV: Bloatware and the 80/20 Myth
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Christopher Isherwood, Goodbye to Berlin
Jeanette Winterson, Jeanette Winterson: It is the Imagination that Counts
Ansel Adams
March 15, 2023 5.43pm
March 14, 2023 1.50pm
March 14, 2023 1.50pm
Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
Lawrence Pearsall Jacks
Rumi
January 31, 2023 2.23pm
Dreams of a community
January 29, 2023 10.30pm
January 29, 2023 12.13pm
January 25, 2023 8.51pm
January 24, 2023 1.32pm
Why I like small spaces
I Am the Ghost Here
Are meaning and meaning-making inherently emotional?
January 12, 2023 8.13am
January 12, 2023 7.42am
January 11, 2023 1.01pm
January 8, 2023 9.46am
What's the difference between the shell and a terminal?
A command by any other name: The utility of aliases and wrappers in the shell
December 13, 2022 3.47pm
George Box (Statistician), Robustness in the strategy of scientific model building
December 13, 2022 9.57am
D. W. Brogan, The American Character
Joseph Chamberlain
Writing simply
R.I.P Usenet: 1980-2008
What would it take to live a life without keys?
December 8, 2022 2.44pm
I Don’t Want to Be an Internet Person
December 4, 2022 9.01am
December 4, 2022 8.58am
November 15, 2022 9.00pm
November 15, 2022 10.33am
Susan Sontag, To Tell A Story
October 30, 2022 6.29pm
October 27, 2022 1.38pm
September 27, 2022 12.48pm
David Allen, Getting Things Done
Richard Feynman, Cargo Cult Science, Caltech commencement address
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lost Road and Other Writings
September 14, 2022 10.59am
unknown, probably not Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
August 28, 2022 6.51pm
August 25, 2022 3.12pm
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Freedom from the Known
Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?
Brendan Gill, Here at The New Yorker
August 24, 2022 5.28pm
August 24, 2022 4.20pm
August 22, 2022 11.57am
August 22, 2022 10.39am
There are no official observations
August 21, 2022 8.57am
August 20, 2022 4.13pm
August 20, 2022 1.38pm
August 19, 2022 11.02am
August 19, 2022 4.41am
August 18, 2022 4.41pm
August 18, 2022 4.39pm
A place of focus
August 13, 2022 5.18pm
August 9, 2022 2.23pm
August 8, 2022 10.51am
August 3, 2022 9.55am
The Count and His Cristos
July 26, 2022 6.20pm
July 21, 2022 10.57pm
July 21, 2022 6.25pm
Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
July 21, 2022 11.45am
July 18, 2022 7.17pm
July 15, 2022 1.50pm
July 15, 2022 12.54pm
Genesis 4:12
July 14, 2022 8.02pm
Pyrrhonian Skepticism
Semantic linefeeds, a writing aid
July 14, 2022 12.51pm
July 12, 2022 1.55pm
Charles Perrow, Normal Accidents
July 11, 2022 6.51pm
Travel in the time of coronavirus
Systems designed around the average person are doomed to fail
July 11, 2022 1.09pm
July 10, 2022 9.33pm
Hayao Miyazaki, 10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki
July 10, 2022 5.39pm
A stubborn fool
July 10, 2022 10.24am
Lamar Burgess, Minority Report
July 7, 2022 8.39pm
July 7, 2022 11.38am
July 6, 2022 9.51pm
A micro exhibit of good design
July 3, 2022 9.04pm
Six of seven
It's not enough to respond in kind
Ideas, braids, snakes and ladders
July 1, 2022 9.40pm
June 29, 2022 9.57pm
June 29, 2022 9.28pm
June 29, 2022 9.00pm
June 29, 2022 2.07pm
Do drugs, stay out of school, talk to strangers
June 29, 2022 11.14am
Maciej Cegłowski, The Website Obesity Crisis
Subsetting fonts for faster responses and rendering
June 28, 2022 9.43pm
June 28, 2022 8.31pm
June 28, 2022 2.44pm
Fixed backlinks not all populating due to KeyError
Symbiosis in thought and design
What will the tools for thought space look like in 5 years?
Meaning is made in the making of meaning
All vim no wow
Not another Eble
June 26, 2022 11.12am
June 26, 2022 11.07am
Here in the loud and now
Is death inside or outside of life? Within or without?
What is life?
June 24, 2022 4.13pm
June 24, 2022 1.48pm
June 24, 2022 10.20am
June 24, 2022 10.06am
June 22, 2022 9.54pm
June 22, 2022 9.51pm
June 17, 2022 11.19am
Bad Eble the third
June 16, 2022 2.41pm
June 16, 2022 10.42am
Durable design of digital artefacts
Hooked on the surf
June 15, 2022 5.21pm
June 15, 2022 1.53pm
An Eble a day keeps the doctor away
Stuck in the web
June 14, 2022 1.09pm
Once more into the deep
June 14, 2022 9.44am
June 14, 2022 8.34am
June 14, 2022 8.33am
Notting quite like Notting Hill
Why is CSS such a poor language for layout?
Benjamin Whorf
June 12, 2022 9.19pm
June 12, 2022 9.13pm
June 12, 2022 1.32pm
June 12, 2022 1.08pm
A couple cool contemporary contributions to chaos
Your native language affects how you see this image
June 12, 2022 10.08am
June 12, 2022 6.50am
Egypt through the eyes of David Roberts
June 11, 2022 11.19am
June 11, 2022 11.11am
June 11, 2022 10.41am
June 10, 2022 10.05pm
Princess Mononoke, my first Ghibli
June 10, 2022 6.25pm
June 10, 2022 6.25pm
June 10, 2022 6.24pm
June 10, 2022 6.16pm
June 10, 2022 6.12pm
June 10, 2022 6.09pm
June 10, 2022 5.04pm
June 10, 2022 4.54pm
June 10, 2022 12.00pm
June 10, 2022 11.06am
June 10, 2022 8.55am
June 9, 2022 7.42am
June 7, 2022 8.10pm
Planting begins anew
June 2, 2022 8.50pm
What is this thing we're all complicit in?
June 2, 2022 8.13pm
What is Craig Mod doing?
June 1, 2022 6.57pm
June 1, 2022 6.36pm
June 1, 2022 5.11pm
June 1, 2022 2.57pm
June 1, 2022 2.36pm
June 1, 2022 1.43pm
May 31, 2022 6.27pm
An uncanny valley of speed
May 30, 2022 12.35pm
May 30, 2022 11.52am
May 29, 2022 9.06pm
May 29, 2022 8.53pm
May 29, 2022 2.40pm
May 29, 2022 2.31pm
May 29, 2022 2.21pm
May 28, 2022 8.23am
May 27, 2022 4.09pm
May 26, 2022 9.14pm
May 26, 2022 8.37pm
May 26, 2022 5.28pm
May 26, 2022 6.56am
May 26, 2022 6.49am
May 26, 2022 6.39am
Richard O’Keefe
May 14, 2022 7.47am
May 9, 2022 4.52pm
Keep your daily notes separate
May 1, 2022 12.16pm
April 28, 2022 8.56pm
Reduce friction at the point of creativity
Taxonomies should be emergent and asynchronous
Premature labelling inhibits exploration
Good jeans are nice, but joy is better
Dashes, firewood, and philosophy
April 21, 2022 4.42pm
Away for Easter, away for work
Chilly reminiscences and guilt
Marshmallows, money, life, and logs
April 13, 2022 6.15am
Big birds and battle cries
Back to the wild, nodes, Dorian Taylor
Data structures, late night fixes
Not getting what I see
Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn
The matter of me
April 7, 2022 8.32pm
A day off
I lost a thought today
To be a child again
March 23, 2022 7.14am
March 22, 2022 6.48pm
March 21, 2022 11.21pm
March 21, 2022 11.04pm
March 20, 2022 9.51am
Vannevar Bush, As We May Think
Tool sheds and mountain tarns
An evening of shovelling, shelving, and kimchi
January 28, 2022 7.46pm
Testing effect
September 19, 2021 2.56pm
September 13, 2021 6.54am
August 28, 2021 5.57pm
Nassim Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
Quotes are not notes
Craig Mod on cropping
Truth may be vital, but without love it is also unbearable.
Adriana Trigiani, All the Stars in the Heavens
July 13, 2021 5.54pm
July 9, 2021 7.46am
I should have kept a journal
Kaui Hart Hemmings, The Possibilities
Rooks all the way down
Puffer fish and buried men
Good at nothing
Taking pictures with words
Write the things
A walk between two Wednesdays
How do people decide to make major life changes?
September 20, 2020 12.34pm
September 18, 2020 5.18pm
When Alex Hope finds a Prime Minister's passport number
Today I'm rich
Independence for whom
Conceptual Iintegrity by Dorian Taylor
Frederick Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
Taxonomies through the eyes of Dorian Taylor
On my way to creation
unknown
June 17, 2020 9.43pm
David McCullough
unknown, A place for everything, everything in its place
A thought for tomorrow
Grady Booch, Architectural Mining: The Other Side of the MDD
Grady Booch, Architectural Mining: The Other Side of the MDD
Eberhard Rechtin, The Art of Systems Architecting (Second Edition)
Mae West
Pope Francis
Pope Francis, The Name of God Is Mercy
Grady Booch
Grady Booch
Grady Booch
Grady Booch
Phil Karlton, The Curmudgeon's Homepage
Wandering
Wandering on, journeys I have in mind
Lentil-soup
A feast of links
Pearls, Archetypes, and Lodestars
Devon Zuegel
Pearls, Archetypes, and Lodestars Archive
✉ Afghans, speculators, and Timothy Snyder
✉ Art, ideas, and how we share them
What's in a tent? (besides me)
Steady states
Capturing lightning is hard
Anti fragility
Putting the useful in a uniform
Stats
Search
Silas Jelley's References
The ramblings of a fool
Silas Jelley's Collection of Quotes
Questions I'm thinking about
What is Silas doing now?
Notes
Some of the nonsense from my old loaf
Map of my world
Silas Jelley's Links
Links sans commentary
Silas Jelley's Reading
Silas Jelley's Journal
Silas Jelley's Corner of the Web
A users handbook for this site
Why fragments?
Films that I like
Silas Jelley's Feeds
Things I have tried to write
No luck finding that one boss
A draft design document for this site
Visual Inspiration
Silas Jelley's Definitions
Say hello
Changelog
Building this site
Bookmark a page
References to art
Archive of Silas Jelley's published work
About Silas Jelley
Vipassanā
Meditation
Wanderer Server Configuration
Silas Jelley's Reference Manuals
Te Araroa – The Long Pathway
Random access
Pangram
Reference definitions
Ichi-go ichi-e
Forcing function
Corpus
Compound interest
Commonplace book
A stream of truthlessness
Taking durable notes
We shape our software; thereafter our software shapes us
General purpose, not always fit for purpose
Tools should be reasonable
They have stories too
Lockdown Mode
Random with your name on it
The new middlemen
Modern novels
Waste is misunderstanding
Understanding is a dialogue
Understanding is misunderstanding
Understanding is everything
What do I believe?
Photographs
Notes on scanning negatives