What this is

I keep two kinds of things here. Links I didn't want to lose — sites, essays, archives, tools — each with a line about why it's worth your click. And notes, which are the pieces I wrote to work something out, published mostly so I'd finish them.

Both are filed under the same topics, which is the whole idea. A link about typography and an essay about typography belong in the same drawer, so the home page puts them there: one alphabetical index, notes in italic, links in roman, each with a reference number.

Cross-references

The see also lines under each topic aren't decorative. Two topics are cross-referenced when they actually share an entry — so hardware points at making because nine things sit in both. The connections come out of the collection rather than being imposed on it, which means they change as the collection does.

How things get in

There's no submission form and nothing here is sponsored. Things get in because I used them, read them twice, or couldn't stop thinking about them. If you've made something you think belongs, send it to me — I read everything and add very little.

How it's built

Stack

Hand-written HTML, one stylesheet, one script. No framework, no build step, no tracking.

Content

Links and note metadata live in a single file, assets/js/data.js. Notes are plain HTML pages.

Where the links came from

Extracted from a running plain-text notebook. Dates are approximate — each one is taken from the nearest dated heading above the link in that file, so it marks the working session rather than the minute.

Typeset in

EB Garamond for reading, DM Mono for anything that behaves like data — references, dates, topics, labels.

Colour

Cool paper grey, ink, and one ballpoint blue for everything that responds to you. The mark in the masthead switches between light and dark — an empty ring on one, a solid disc on the other. It starts on whatever your system prefers, and every click flips it.

Keyboard

Press / on the index or the links page to jump to the search field, Esc to clear it.

Writing

Notes are added and removed through a local authoring server — node admin.js — which writes the page and files its entry. The site itself stays static.

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