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.
146,055 words
- 114,549 of my own
- 31,506 words of quotes and reference material
272 internal links between documents
4 primary categories:
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24 secondary categories:
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books
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links
lists
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meditation
misc
nonsense
now
pages
pearls
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questions
quotes
rambling
recipes
wandering
29 document tags:
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documentary
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58 collections of documents:
art
backups
beliefs
books
changelogs
data-loss
definitions
design
design-systems
devon-zuegel
dialog
documentary
essays
everything
films
gear
indexes
journal
learning
links
lists
literacy
main
manuals
markdown
meditation
meta
misc
nonsense
note-taking
notes
now
pages
pearls
plain-text
proposal-inspiration
proposals
questions
quotes
rambling
recipes
references
scanning
self-description
SEP
simla
smallweb
software
studio-ghibli
taxonomy
thinking
truth
walking
wandering
web-design
words
writing
x-linkblog
958 pages
October 2, 2024 3.56PM
Vincent van Gogh, letter to painter Anthon van Rappard, 1885
Geoff Manaugh, Potsdamer Sea, BLDGBLOG
William S. Burroughs, The Ticket That Exploded, 1962
Geoff Manaugh, World Store, BLDGBLOG
Jeremy Taylor, Holy Dying, 1651
Lee Sandlin, Losing the War, 2007
Geoff Manaugh, Every Room A Battlefield, BLDGBLOG
Joshua Cohen, The Art of Losing: A FiveThirtyEight Story, Part I, Ettingermentum Newsletter
Søren Kierkegaard, Journals IV A 164, 1843
Rick Perlstein, The Polling Imperilment, The American Prospect
Lucia Specia; Enrico Motta, Integrating Folksonomies with the Semantic Web, The Semantic Web: Research and Applications. ESWC 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4519, 2007, p. 624–639
Designing a metadata vocabulary
Swapped out map tile provider
Silas Jelley's meta page of indexes
September 27, 2024 8.41AM
Geoff Manaugh, Agency of the Subsurface, BLDGBLOG
Daniel Milnor, Creative: Japan Notes, Episode Four, Shifter
Riley Goodside
Giles Turnbull, P&B: Giles Turnbull, People & Blogs
Paul Graham, Being Popular
September 26, 2024 8.49PM
Marcus Thunström, LuaWebGen. Why?
Samuel Johnson, No. 14, The Rambler
September 26, 2024 5.26PM
September 26, 2024 11.21AM
September 26, 2024 10.57AM
September 25, 2024 7.45PM
September 25, 2024 6.46PM
Will Crowther, Colossal Cave Adventure, 1976
September 25, 2024 1.26PM
September 25, 2024 3.41AM
September 25, 2024 1.38AM
Charlie Stross, Why Microsoft Word must Die
G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy, 1908
Jane Ruffino, Business Post
Jane Ruffino, To Hell With More, I Want Better, Character Works
Louis C.K., Episode 92: Louis C.K., The Bill Simmons Podcast
September 24, 2024 6.08PM
September 24, 2024 8.50AM
Daniel Milnor, Creative: Japan Notes, Episode Three
Aaron Gordon, U.S. Cities Have a Staggering Problem of Kia and Hyundai Thefts. This Data Shows It., Vice
September 22, 2024 8.32PM
September 22, 2024 8.05PM
September 21, 2024 6.04PM
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Henry W. Kinney, Earthquake Days, The Atlantic, 1924
Newspaper clipping, 1923
Henry W. Kinney, Earthquake Days, The Atlantic, 1924
Henry W. Kinney, Earthquake Days, The Atlantic, 1924
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Albert Einstein, Autobiographical Notes, Albert Einstein: Philosopher–Scientist, 1951
Caroline Busta, The internet didn’t kill counterculture — you just won’t find it on Instagram, Document, At Large
Pietro's father, Le Otto Montaigne, 2022
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Emily
Kyle Chayka, Ezra Klein Interviews Kyle Chayka, The Ezra Klein Show
Christopher Alexander, A Pattern Language, 1977, p. 266
Christopher Alexander, A Pattern Language, 1977
Robin Sloan, Are AI language models in hell?
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
September 11, 2024 7.35PM
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
H. Jackson Brown, Jr's mother, P.S. I Love You, 1990
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Aaron Siskind, Credo, 1950
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Reality in the second degree?
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, 1845
Martin Luther King, Letter from the Birmingham Jail
Reynolds Price, Three Gospels
Alan Jacobs, some enchanted evening, The Homebound Symphony
Christoph Rehage, I Walked From China To Germany AMA 10: How Have You Adjusted To Being Back Home?
What to do if you're bored?
Danny Hills, Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine
Danny Hills, Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine
Danny Hills, Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine
Danny Hills, Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine
Christoph Rauscher, Something That Needs Nothing, Christel’s Corner
Joel Meyerowitz, DECEMBER 31, 2015, ONCE MORE AROUND THE SUN
Toni Morrison, Toni Morrison, The Art of Fiction No. 134, The Paris Review
Michelle Obama, A Couple in Chicago, The New Yorker, 1996
Craig Mod, Japanese Kissa by Kissa, Norm Maclean, Toni Morrison, Akiya in Japan, Howtown, Bobby Fingers, and more
Wim Wenders, ‘All my films deal with how to live’: Wim Wenders on Herzog, spirituality and shooting a movie in 16 days, The Guardian
Derek Wessman, NHK News Watch 9
John Cage, Lecture On Nothing, 1959
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
J. Cole, 2014
James A. Reeves, The Tannhäuser Gate
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag
Dr. Andrew Long, Statistical Humor
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Stephen Wolfram, Five Most Productive Years: What Happened and What’s Next
August 30, 2024 8.33PM
Soatok, Introducing Alacrity to Federated Cryptography
Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano, 1952, p. 86
Tim Bray, More Monos!
Winston Churchill, Speech, House of Commons
Joel Meyerowitz, The Big Interview, Monocle
Georgia O’Keeffe, Foreword of the catalogue for the show at the Anderson Galleries in New York, 1926
Nikhil Suresh, I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again
August 25, 2024 8.36PM
David Gerrold, Is That a Pita in Your Pocket, Smart Reseller Magazine
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Macklemore, Ten Thousand Hours, The Heist (2012), 2012
Laura Killingbeck, Empathy is a Survival Skill
Laura Killingbeck, Empathy is a Survival Skill
Laura Killingbeck, Empathy is a Survival Skill
Laura Killingbeck, Empathy is a Survival Skill
Lionel 'Ploum' Dricot, P&B: Ploum, People & Blogs
Sophie Saint Thomas, What Is a Twin Flame, and How Is It Different From a Soul Mate?, allure
People Who Stutter Create: Stuttering Can Create Time, Whitney Museum of Art
Ursula K. Le Guin, A Rant About “Technology”, 2005
Ursula K. Le Guin, A Rant About “Technology”, 2005
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Diane Arbus
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Paul Rosenfeld, Port of New York, 1924
Ran Prieur
Ran Prieur
Julian Assange, Google Is Not What It Seems, Wikileaks
Kevin Lynagh, Inventory software, useful LLMs, haunted stm32, casual modeling, minimalist workouts
Stewart Baker, NSA General Counsel
Sachin Benny, Pax Sardinia, Summer Lightning
H.P. Lovecraft, Call of Cthulhu, 1926
Sachin Benny, Pax Sardinia, Summer Lightning
John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday, 1954, p. 1
Walt Whitman, Assurances, Whispers Of Heavenly Death, 1891
Walt Whitman, Preface, Leaves of Grass, 1855
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Gustave Flaubert, written to Gertrude Tennant
Red Hot Chili Peppers, C'mon Girl, 2006
H. L. Mencken’s, A Book of Prefaces, 1917
Richard P. Gabriel, The Rise of Worse is Better, 1991
Harold Washington
Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Mouldiness Manifesto Against Rationalism In Architecture, A signed and numbered brochure, edited by Galerie Renate Boukes, 1958
August 15, 2024 2.23PM
Casually Explained, Photography
Diane Arbus
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
Harald Høffding
Reinhold Niebuhr, 1932
Robert Heaton, How sad should I be about ChatGPT?
Thaddeus Golas, The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment, 1971
Ken Kocienda, Creative Selection: Inside Apple’s Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs, 2018
Andy Matuschak, In praise of the particular, and other lessons from 2023
Paul Ford, Why So Bad, AI Ads?, aboard
John L. Heilbron, Niels Bohr: A Very Short Introduction, 2020
Oscar Wilde, Intentions, 1891
Niels Bohr, Discussion with Einstein on Epistemological Problems in Atomic Physics, 1949
Jenny Wen, Don't trust the (design) process, The faintest idea
Thomas Jefferson, From Thomas Jefferson to Ebenezer Hazard, 1791
Is he ever afraid when he falls asleep?
A dialog
Anthony Bourdain, One Day—and One Night—in Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen | The New Yorker, The New Yorker
Anthony Bourdain, One Day—and One Night—in the Kitchen at Les Halles, The New Yorker
R. Barbour, Introducing Qualitative Research: A Student's Guide, 2013, p. 257
Sam Seliger, “No Salt”, The Story's Story
Terence McKenna, Dreaming Awake at the End of Time
Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water, p. 2
James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son
Zadie Smith, NW, 2012
Viktor Lofgren, Less Coffee, Better Sleep
Mike Grindle, What to Do with My Blog When I’m Gone
Rachel Kroll, Two months of feed reader behavior analysis
Rachel Kroll, Feedback on feed stuff and those pesky blue screens
Milky Way Over Tunisia, Astronomy Picture of the Day
Om Malik, Intermittent Social media fasting
Robin Rendle, Design ain’t a democracy
Scott Aaronson, My “Never-Trump From Here to Eternity” FAQ, Shtetl-Optimized
Robert Denerstein, Rapping for the Irish language, Denerstein Unleashed
Om Malik, Field Notes. 08.04.2024xa0
William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature, 1902
Jake Seliger, How do you say goodbye?
Matt Webb, Hallucination should not be a dirty word, Interconnected
Lorin Hochstein, Efficiency and bad outcomes, Surfing Complexity
Christoph Rauscher, The Long Hard Stupid Way
Christoph Rauscher, Sketchbooks, Cobble Stones, and Solitude
Christoph Rauscher, Easiness, Celebrities, and Another Round
Wouter Groeneveld, Introducing The New Brain Baking Theme, Brain Baking
Christopher Butler, The Internet Isn't for Humans Anymore
Simon Willison, Language models on the command-line
Lea Verou, Inline conditionals in CSS?
14 Reasons Why I’m Childfree
Wouter Groeneveld, The Parent Trap, Brain Baking
Jake Seliger, More isn’t always better: death and over-treatment as a downside of agenticness, The Story's Story
Jake Seliger, More isn’t always better: death and over-treatment as a downside of agenticness, The Story's Story
Jake Seliger, More isn’t always better: death and over-treatment as a downside of agenticness, The Story's Story
Thich Nhat Hanh, How to Sit, 2014
Michael Levin and Rafael Yuste, How evolution ‘hacked’ its way to intelligence from the bottom up, Aeon
Dessa, 2013
Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, 1886
Venkatesh Rao, Imagination vs Creativity
Lewis Fry Richardson, Weather prediction by numerical process, 1922
Karma, In Our Time
Matt Webb, Karma as ancient progress studies
Alexander Obenauer, Noticing the problem with our operating systems, The Interfaces With Which We Think
Alexander Obenauer, The Interfaces With Which We Think
Jane Friedman, Being a Very Online Advice-Giver Has Made My Writing Worse
Thomas Edison, Edison in His Laboratory, Harpers Magazine
McKinley Valentine, Heart-smitten with that desire of wandering and looking on new things, The Whippet
Daniel Quinn, Ishmael, 1997
Daniel Quinn, foreword to Ishmael, 2017
Daniel Quinn, foreword to Ishmael, 2017
Truman Capote
Daniel Quinn, foreword to Ishmael, 2017
Mona Simpson (sister of Steve Jobs)
Stone hotel, pool night
Frank Chimero, Big Ideas
Frank Chimero, Big Ideas
Eva Zeisel
don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements, 1997
don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements, 1997
Frank Chimero, Redesign: The Raccoon King of Garbage Mountain
possibly Saint Teresa of Avila
Margaret Mead
don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements, 1997
don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements, 1997
A table, a chair, a square
don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements, 1997
don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements, 1997
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
July 25, 2024 10.06AM
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
N. S. Lyons, Autonomy and the Automaton, The Upheavel
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
July 13, 2024 6.32PM
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Avash, avash
Thomas Frank, The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Ruined Government, Enriched Themselves, and Beggared the Nation
Wikipedia, Dada
Chimera Linux
Pëllumbas, the peaks, Peskopi
Going slower and looking closer
Leonardo Da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, 1883
John Warner, Ideas Aren't Worth Anything, The Biblioracle Recommends
Thomas Mann, Tristan, 1903, p. 70
Bentley Beetham, 1924
Nan Shepherd, The Living Mountain, 1977
Nan Shepherd, The Living Mountain, 1977
Nan Shepherd, The Living Mountain, 1977
Nan Shepherd, The Living Mountain, 1977
René Daumal, Mount Analogue, 1952
Pete Boardman, The Shining Mountain: Two Men on Changabang's West Wall, 1976
Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust, 2000
John Harlin
Lord George Curzon, 1899
June 25, 2024 12.10AM
an unknown architect, 1920
W. H. Auden, September 1, 1939, Another Time, 1940
Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, 1964
Hubert L. Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly, All Things Shining
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
Carl von Clausewitz, On War, 1832
Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, 1999
Pete Millspaugh, Things I found interesting in Bonnie Nardi’s “A Small Matter of Programming”
Lorin Hochstein, Green is the color of complacency, Surfing Complexity
straybob, 400 Miles of Jordan Ep 3
Craig Mod, Continuous Uninterrupted Solo Walks
May 4, 2024 11.29AM
Sara Hendren, not that kind of constraint
Werner Herzog, Of Walking in Ice, 1978
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, 1952, p. 128
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
Manuals
Visual Inspiration
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
Photographs
February 22, 2024 7.19PM
Mike Grindle, Some Thoughts in Lieu of an Abandoned Post
Roger Ebert, Life Itself, 2011
Notes on scanning negatives
Where are you peculiar?
Jacob Collier, On managing the complexity of virtual collaborations
Jacob Collier, On managing the complexity of virtual collaborations
Jamie Crisman, Getting Out, Getting Lost
January 21, 2024 1.27PM
Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
Robin Berjon, Web Tiles
Jason Scott, Archiving in the Time of Streaming
Meditation
Vipassanā
Sunshine, windburn, summat to do with summits
September 30, 2023 2.27PM
Categories as taxonomy, tags as folksonomy
The first hundred days
The ramblings of a fool
September 21, 2023 8.59AM
September 20, 2023 6.58PM
September 20, 2023 6.47PM
September 20, 2023 2.11PM
SEP 60: A stricter metadata vocabulary
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 17, 2023 11.08AM
Picturing people on the walk
Hurdling over the Dolomites
September 5, 2023 9.25AM
Between the mountains and the First Two Pages of Frankenstein
From Triglav
What's not to like?
Finding joy
August 18, 2023 6.01PM
At play with photography in Innsbruck
Add HEIF image support
August 10, 2023 10.43AM
Map of my world
Fix: Images no longer clickable when non-modal
July 11, 2023 8.38AM
Vaber
July 10, 2023 7.56PM
July 8, 2023 6.06PM
July 5, 2023 7.54PM
July 5, 2023 9.43AM
Google, Google Earth
G.K. Chesterton, The New Jersusalem, 1920
David Pierce, Who killed Google Reader?
June 30, 2023 4.02PM
June 30, 2023 3.17PM
June 29, 2023 9.56PM
June 22, 2023 8.17AM
Why the walk?
June 20, 2023 11.36PM
Lao Tzu, The Tao Te Ching
✉ More photographs than footsteps or words
✉ Thinking about the shape of the walk
June 16, 2023 9.17PM
June 16, 2023 6.52PM
June 16, 2023 6.09PM
✉ I hope the cows don't mind
June 15, 2023 4.42PM
✉ Joining the North Downs Way
✉ A walking day
June 13, 2023 4.41PM
✉ The last of the familiar faces
✉ Catch up with mum
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1892
✉ Sensible shoes
Craig Mod & Dan Rubin, Koya Bound: Eight Days on the Kumano Kodo, 2016
✉ A trip down memory lane
✉ A warm welcome to the walk
SEP 59: Manifest test
June 5, 2023 11.00PM
June 3, 2023 2.57PM
N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society
Jef Raskin, The Humane Interface, 2000
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, 1940, p. 50
Eric Hoffer, The Temper of Our Time, 1969
May 15, 2023 12.30AM
Books (maybe) for the walk
Werner Herzog
The countries in between
SEP 58: Define asset transformations within manifest
Bessie A. Stanley, What Constitutes Success?, 1905
SEP 57: Reference/include any file from/in documents
May 7, 2023 9.28PM
Wanderer Server Configuration
Fire of Love
Nhat Hanh, How to Love, 2015
Not That Kind of Love
May 5, 2023 11.42PM
Dead Poets Society, 1989
Links sans commentary
Temple Grandin, 2010
May 1, 2023 3.31PM
May 1, 2023 3.08PM
May 1, 2023 3.08PM
SEP 56: Add datetime to metadata fields
May 1, 2023 12.26PM
Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, 1973
Feynman: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, 1981
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
Richard Feynman, Feynman: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, 1981
April 30, 2023 1.47PM
Daniel Lawrence Lu, DLLU
A love of files
April 29, 2023 9.43PM
April 29, 2023 9.26PM
SEP 51: Conflict free editing
SEP 50: A personal taxonomical structure
Richard Feynman, Feynman: The pleasure of Finding Things Out, 1981
SEP 49: Handler for asset referencing
SEP 48: Remove assets from notes directory
Switched from markdown to Djot
April 22, 2023 9.24PM
smitty1e
April 20, 2023 10.58AM
April 20, 2023 8.30AM
April 20, 2023 12.50AM
SEP 47: Separate present from memory
Linking forwards
April 19, 2023 10.27PM
D.H. Lawrence
John Berger, Ways of Seeing, 1972
Ansel Adams
Wouter Groeneveld, Cool Things People Do With Their Blogs
SEP 46: Per document changelogs
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, 1915
How to find your mum's keys after she's given up hope
April 19, 2023 10.26AM
April 18, 2023 2.24PM
Definitions
Implement document transclusion
Transclusion
SEP 45: Transclusion of documents
April 18, 2023 12.49AM
Matt Webb, I wish my web server were in the corner of my room
Design Inspiration
Films that I like
Out beyond the edge of the map
April 17, 2023 9.12PM
Monsieur Lazhar, 2011
SEP 44: Short Reference Syntax
Tymeful
April 17, 2023 3.35PM
April 17, 2023 3.06PM
April 17, 2023 2.52PM
Knut Melvær, Thoughts On Markdown
SEP 43: Distinguish types, classes, tags in collections
Wikipedia, 2008 Universal Studios fire
Ryan J. A. Murhpy, When and how to publish notes: Publishing thinking effectively and efficiently
Kyle Neath, URL Design
My collection of quotes
References
SEP 42: Expose Abstract Syntax Tree (AST)
April 16, 2023 10.19PM
Navalny, 2022
Metadata overhaul
Links
✅ SEP 41: New metadata element: class
April 15, 2023 5.35PM
My future children and me.
SEP 40: Graphs and maps: contextualising with visualisations
Make page/site metadata accessible from HTML
SEP 39: Metadata: Enhanced location
✅ SEP 38: Document Type: References
Atomic Design — Brad Frost
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds
✅ SEP 37: Convention for use of singular v. plural in metadata
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
SEP 36: Build a link archive
Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night, 1962
April 12, 2023 5.12PM
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
SEP 35: Incremental builds
Aaron Swartz, Release Late, Release Rarely
SEP 34: Overhaul image pipeline
Maciej Cegłowski
SEP 33: Substantive revision metadata
April 11, 2023 7.06PM
Bookmark a page
🏗 SEP 32: Remove tags from index pages
SEP 31: Add title elements to internal links
SEP 30: Adjust site style to permit offsetting
April 11, 2023 12.50PM
unknown
SEP 29: Include every file in the data tree
SEP 28: Check for slug collisions
SEP 27: Split stylesheet into components
April 10, 2023 6.45PM
Jason Scott, destruction
Fix footer to viewport bottom
🏗 SEP 26: Make page/site metadata accessible from HTML
✅ SEP 25: Fix footer to bottom of viewport
Ask Culture meets Guess Culture
SEP 24: Case of frontmatter keys
SEP 23: Language metadata
SEP 22: Frontmatter Formatting
April 8, 2023 11.51PM
SEP 21: Reject relative URLS
SEP 20: Add timezone information to all document metadata timestamps
✅ SEP 19: Add a sitewide count of backlinks
SEP 18: Document Summaries
SEP 17: Document Transclusion
✅ SEP 16: Extract backlinks from plaintext
SEP 15: Switch to RSS for feeds (currently using Atom)
✅ SEP 14: UUID collision checking
Understanding is everything
Understanding is misunderstanding
Understanding is a dialogue
Waste is misunderstanding
SEP 13: Switch to a more reasonable source markup language
✅ SEP 12: Reference documents by their URN/UUID
Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854
Strategy Letter IV: Bloatware and the 80/20 Myth
Christopher Isherwood, Goodbye to Berlin, 1939
Jeanette Winterson, Jeanette Winterson: It is the Imagination that Counts
Via Francigena
Ansel Adams
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Walking to the Himalaya
Before the walk
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March 14, 2023 1.50PM
Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, 1973
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
SEP 11: Series metadata
Why I like small spaces
January 24, 2023 1.32PM
I Am the Ghost Here
Are meaning and meaning-making inherently emotional?
January 12, 2023 8.13AM
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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
SEP 10: Assumed Audiences
SEP 9: Metadata: Document alts
December 13, 2022 3.47PM
George Box (Statistician), Robustness in the strategy of scientific model building, 1978, p. 201–236
December 13, 2022 9.57AM
D. W. Brogan, The American Character, 1944
Joseph Chamberlain, 1898
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
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Susan Sontag, To Tell A Story, 1983
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David Allen, Getting Things Done, 2001
Richard Feynman, Cargo Cult Science, Caltech commencement address, 1974
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lost Road and Other Writings, 1987
September 14, 2022 10.59AM
unknown, probably not Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
August 28, 2022 6.51PM
August 25, 2022 3.12PM
🏗 SEP 8: Create a shorthand for proposals
🏗 SEP 7: Consolidate collection definitions/attributes
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Freedom from the Known, 1969
Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?, 2013
Brendan Gill, Here at The New Yorker, 1975
August 24, 2022 5.28PM
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There are no official observations
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A place of focus
August 13, 2022 5.18PM
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The Count and His Cristos
July 26, 2022 6.20PM
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Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters, 1999
July 21, 2022 11.45AM
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god, apparently, Mattew 7:13–14, The New Testament
July 15, 2022 1.48PM
July 15, 2022 12.54PM
Genesis 412
July 14, 2022 8.02PM
Pyrrhonian Skepticism
Semantic linefeeds, a writing aid
July 14, 2022 12.51PM
SEP 6: Insert image dimensions into figures at build time
SEP 5: Definition of breadcrumb navigation within metadata
✅ SEP 4: Add taxonomical types alongside tags
July 12, 2022 1.55PM
Charles Perrow, Normal Accidents, 1984
SEP 3: Define arbitrary collections in logic
SEP 2: Create documents more directly from living data
SEP 1: URL traversal/scoping/discovery
Proposals for the improvement of this site
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, 2019
July 10, 2022 5.39PM
A stubborn fool
July 10, 2022 10.24AM
Lamar Burgess, Minority Report, 2002
July 7, 2022 8.39PM
Essays
July 7, 2022 11.38AM
General purpose, not always fit for purpose
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
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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, 2015
Subsetting fonts for faster responses and rendering
June 28, 2022 9.43PM
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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
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June 24, 2022 10.06AM
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Bad Eble the third
June 16, 2022 2.41PM
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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
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Egypt through the eyes of David Roberts
June 11, 2022 12.29PM
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus logigo-philosphicus, 1922
June 11, 2022 11.19AM
June 11, 2022 11.11AM
Benjamin Whorf
June 11, 2022 10.41AM
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Princess Mononoke, my first Ghibli
June 10, 2022 6.25PM
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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
Stats
June 1, 2022 5.11PM
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June 1, 2022 1.43PM
May 31, 2022 6.27PM
An uncanny valley of speed
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Wandering on, journeys I have in mind
May 28, 2022 8.23AM
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Some of the nonsense from my old loaf
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Richard O’Keefe, 2012
May 14, 2022 7.47AM
May 9, 2022 4.52PM
Lentil-soup
Keep your daily notes separate
What's in a tent? (besides me)
May 1, 2022 12.16PM
What do I believe?
A stream of truthlessness
April 28, 2022 8.56PM
Putting the useful in a uniform
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
Building this site
Dashes, firewood, and philosophy
April 21, 2022 4.42PM
A draft design document for this site
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
The matter of me
Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn
April 7, 2022 8.32PM
A day off
I lost a thought today
To be a child again
We shape our software; thereafter our software shapes us
March 23, 2022 7.14AM
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Changelog
March 20, 2022 9.51AM
Capturing lightning is hard
Vannevar Bush, As We May Think, The Atlantic, 1945
Taking durable notes
Tool sheds and mountain tarns
An evening of shovelling, shelving, and kimchi
January 28, 2022 7.46PM
Testing effect
The sunburnt country
Tools should be reasonable
September 19, 2021 2.56PM
September 13, 2021 6.54AM
The new middlemen
August 28, 2021 5.57PM
Steady states
A users handbook for this site
Nassim Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder, 2012
Anti fragility
Forcing function
Pangram
They have stories too
The man who walked too fast
Quotes are not notes
Craig Mod on cropping
Habitual and optimal, never to meet
Archive of Silas Jelley's published work
Journal
Te Araroa – The Long Pathway
Corpus
Commonplace book
Reference definitions
Lockdown Mode
Notes
Random access
Compound interest
Truth may be vital, but without love it is also unbearable.
Adriana Trigiani, All the Stars in the Heavens, 2014, p. 4
✉ Afghans, speculators, and Timothy Snyder
The forests of Northland
July 13, 2021 5.54PM
About
Pearls, Archetypes, and Lodestars Archive
Pearls, Archetypes, and Lodestars
Beauty and the beach
A short walk
July 9, 2021 7.46AM
A feast of links
✉ Art, ideas, and how we share them
Random with your name on it
I should have kept a journal
Kaui Hart Hemmings, The Possibilities, 2014, p. 3
Rooks all the way down
Puffer fish and buried men
Good at nothing
Lessons from the back of beyond
Modern novels
Why fragments?
Taking pictures with words
Write the things
A walk between two Wednesdays
A short walk beneath a long white cloud
How do people decide to make major life changes?
References to art
Questions I'm thinking about
September 20, 2020 12.34PM
What is Silas doing now?
September 18, 2020 5.18PM
Search
When Alex Hope finds a Prime Minister's passport number
Today I'm rich
Independence for whom
Devon Zuegel
Conceptual Iintegrity by Dorian Taylor
Frederick Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, 1975
Taxonomies through the eyes of Dorian Taylor
Ichi-go ichi-e
Half a world away
Long gone in the back of beyond
Wandering
Say hello
No luck finding that one boss
Feeds
Silas Jelley's Corner of the Web
On my way to creation
unknown
July 19, 2020 5.22PM
June 17, 2020 9.43PM
David McCullough, Interview with NEH chairman Bruce Cole, Humanities, July/Aug. 2002, Vol. 23/No. 4
unknown, A place for everything, everything in its place
A thought for tomorrow
Grady Booch, Architectural Mining: The Other Side of the MDD, 2009
Grady Booch, Architectural Mining: The Other Side of the MDD, 2009
Eberhard Rechtin, The Art of Systems Architecting (Second Edition), 2000
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