A slower home on the internet

This site does three things. It says who I am, it shows what I work on, and it keeps a notebook. That is all, on purpose.

One page, then the notebook

The home page reads like a day. It opens on a sunset over the sea and closes at night, under a crescent moon. In between there is a short bio, the work, and the latest posts. Nothing to click through, no pop-up, nothing to accept.

Very few photos, a lot of drawing

There are exactly two photos here, and both have a job. In astrology the Sun is the side of you that goes out in the open, and the Moon is the private one. So there is a Sun photo, taken in a sunny garden, and a Moon photo, taken on a terrace at night.

Everything else is drawn in SVG: the sunset, the orbits, the palm, the night sky in the footer, the glyph on each shelf of the blog. Even the cover of every post is drawn, from the post’s own address, by a small generator. The same post always gets the same picture, and no two posts get the same one. SVG is just text, so the drawings stay light and sharp at any size.

Four shelves

The blog is organised the way the work is:

• Agents & automation: AI that gets real work done.
• Web & search: fast websites and the foundations under them.
• Stars & numbers: astrology, numerology and gematria, calculated first.
• Notes: everything else, like this post.

Each post sits on exactly one shelf, carries a few tags, and sometimes belongs to a series, like this one. Addresses are flat (/blog/the-post/), so moving a post to another shelf never breaks a link.

Reading time, counted

Every post shows how long it takes to read. Nobody types that number in. A small plugin counts the words when the site is built, and files each post as a quick read, an essay or a long read. The next post in this series explains how.

Pour something warm. Pick a shelf.