About This Site
This site is my way of working in the open - a public repository of my knowledge, research, and writing that serves both as a personal memory aid and a resource I share with others.
Notes
My primary knowledge collection, imported from Readwise/Reader highlights of online content and physical book reading, plus manual notes from conversations with peers. I use these as supporting research for my writing and as a memory aid for my work.
Blog
All of my original writing, including essays, personal life stories, travel writing, and reviews of concerts, movies, and music.
Exercise
My exercise log from recent years, which I use to reflect on my health and explore my environment.
Replies
Cross-posted replies I make on social networks and other external sites, archived here for completeness and reference.
Pages
Various personal projects and reference content (social accounts, newsletter signup, etc.).
Tools
I also build lots and lots of tools to help me make the most of my writing and knowledge collection.
How I Use It
I regularly review my posts to discover new connections and add links between them. The dense interlinking and backlink display creates a cross-pollination effect that helps surface related ideas. I don’t have a rigid research-to-writing workflow, but the site helps me identify patterns and develop new ideas over time.
For syndication, I follow specific rules to ensure content works well both on my site and on external platforms without losing context.
Features
Posts and pages and notes can link to each other, and backlinks are shown when present. This allows for two-way linking of ideas.
Search (on the homepage and on a dedicated page) allows you to find anything without having to use an external search engine.
Pages and posts support table-of-contents rendering, metadata about citation/sourcing, Readwise integration, h-card markup (for webmention support), and more.
Infrastructure
The site theme was originally forked from Simply Jekyll and has slowly been rewritten and refactored over time.
This site’s source code lives on Github and is served using GitHub Pages.
This website is statically generated using Jekyll from a set of Markdown files.
Search is powered by lunrjs.
Photo galleries and zoom are powered by PhotoSwipe.
The site fonts are IBM Plex and Berkeley Mono.
Network graph views are powered by vis-network.
Popularity is tracked by Goatcounter - public stats are available at /analytics.
Guestbook comments are powered by Cusdis.
Serverless scripts (e.g. for generating insights) are hosted/run by Val Town.
You can read about everything else I use to build things at /uses.
Stats
- Site version: v2.14.0-r153-g4d24d83e
- Build time:
- Posts count: 3075
- Tags count: 282
- First post date:
Changelog
Unreleased
/projectspage- podcast rendering
- photos page
- More ideas
2025-06-07
- Add Anchors page to display posts with most backlinks
- Bring back the comments section on posts
- Display Mastodon and Bluesky replies/like counts on posts
2025-06-01
- Add Sequences page to display linked posts in a sequence
2025-05-18
- Importing Reader top-level document notes as Notes posts
2025-03-15
- Add a Heatmap Calendar of posts
2024-12-21
- Import posts from Bluesky as posts and replies
2024-12-15
- Import reviews from Letterboxd as blog posts
2024-12-08
2024-12-07
- Import posts from Mastodon as replies and blog posts
2024-12-02
- Switch back to variable fonts
- Refactor general post layout and headings
2024-12-01
- Switch to monospace fonts
- POSSE notes to Mastodon and Bluesky
- import posts from Mastodon as replies
- replies page
- insights inline on the post page itself
- backlinks powered by the same data that provides the network linkages
ReplyToas extractable content and used to link
2024-11-24
- Redesign the homepage to be more like a directory
2024-09-07
- Add conversation support to insight page
2024-09-06
- Add insight generation for posts and tags
2024-07-16
- Add lazy-loading support for images in post lists
2024-07-13
2024-07-04
2024-06-22
- Switching off Tinylitics and over to Goatcounter for analytics
2024-06-16
- Post to mastodon via GitHub action build pipeline (POSSE)
- Add comments via Cusdis
- Add a guestbook page
2024-06-01
- Added Tinylitics as an experiment
2024-05-27
- Render search results statically
2024-05-26
- Add “post via GitHub issue” feature
2024-03-02
- Display “recently read” and “reading inbox” articles from Reader API
2024-02-28
/usespage (ref)- podroll and blogroll posts/tags
2024-02-19
- Network/map display of all posts (to find edges of the garden needing weeding)
- Network display on each post (to walk the garden path)
- Walking path display on the network (based on session)
2024-02-17
- Print and PDF styling of posts
2024-02-03
- Enabled PWA offline capabilities
2024-02-01
- Add “Feeling Lucky” mode to the search page.
2024-01-24
- optimize images for web sizes/rendering
2024-01-15
- Redesign the site to double-column layout
- Add notepad to posts and pages
- Introduced seasons
2024-01-06
- Featured image support on posts
- Migrate the blog content from Ghost into this site
- Create a category page for the blog
- create a category for books
- create a category for concerts
- create a category for movies
- create a category for desks
- create a category for talks
/subscribepage/narropage/contactpage
2023-12-29
- Photo gallery and zoom support
- Linking books via Amazon ASIN (though we hate Amazon, it’s all we can get from Readwise’s API)
2023-12-27
- New theme implemented (major simplification)
- Update link styling to suppprt
visitedstate
2023-06-22
- Implemented decimal index
2023-06-09
- Printable styling and QRCodes
2023-05-01
- Highlight text fragments in outbound links
2023-03-05
- Send Webmentions with GitHub Actions
2023-03-04
- Switch to GitHub Actions for build
2023-03-01
- Add Webmention display support
2023-02-16
- Styled with Tufte.css
2023-02-11
- Added Random Note page
2023-02-11
- Search-via-URL-query support
2023-01-11
- Tags added to search results
2023-02-09
- Forked from Original Theme