Site

WHAT

this is a memory site.

WHY

i’m not good at ‘blogging’.

‘public learning’ (e.g. digital garden) requires too much preplanning.

talking about technical things is hard. and i really don’t enjoy it.

SPEC

• site is 40(ish) columns.
  • each line fits on an IBM-80 card with enough space for extra metadata.
• indicators overflow the left margin.
  • ‘•’ for lists.
  • ‘>>’ for h<1-6> tags.
• all h<1-6> headings are the same size as the paragraph text.
  • all heading text tranformed to ‘uppercase’
  • headings still use different numbers to preserve semantic information.

all done through CSS.

This is to maintain ‘separation of data and presentation’, so discarding/customizing CSS is uniform.

TIME

timestamps are formatted as such:

YYYYMMDD#HHMMSS

it’s a slightly compressed variation of ISO-8601.

it uses 24-hour time.

the # is just a visual division between calendar and clock values.

i opted for a longer year output, but a more perfect symmetry can be done with shortened year indicator:

YYMMDD#HHMMSS

SECT

META: site/me information.

STAT: different modes (1 currently) of status updates.

LNKS: links to other places.

RING: web rings that i somewhow got away with being a member.

MEM0: random things i want to remember.

JRNL: (ir)regularly updated journal.

MISC

i made a button.