About This Site

Semantics

The overall structure of this site is what is sometimes called a “digital garden”, an evolving web of hypertext pages covering whatever it is I had thought worth writing about. This isn’t quite the same as a blog, the “post time” isn’t the primary indexOr even at the time I write this a possible index, though I will probably add some sort of changelog functionality at some point of the content. Also the pages are mutable, if I have further thoughts on a topic I’m going to update the existing page, not write a new post referencing the existing one.

In terms of actual content, at the time I write this the books section contains all of the currently written pages, though I imagine I will write some programming content before too long.

“Syntax”

I’ll be honest, my reason for starting work on this site was much more about fiddling around with the system to produce it than it was about writing the content.

The site is fully static in production, with neither server side code nor any javascript. It is rendered using the Pollen publishing system.

Stylistically, the layout css is mostly taken from tuft-cssUnder the MIT License, the colour scheme is SolarizedUnder the MIT License, and the fonts are Heliotrope, Equity, and Triplicate by Mathew ButterickProprietary, I have a licence covering my use on this site.