about

rants and raves, mostly rants.

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i offer an rss feed. try pasting in inwiring.com into an rss reader. if you are looking for a recommendation for macos/ios, i use netnewswire. your rss reader will notify you whenever i make a new post.

you can reach me via an email to this domain also. as i’m the domain admin, try a sensible default.

colophon

this website is built with a forked version of barf. i was drawn to it because it is about 180 lines of shell that just creates a index (right now, a tsv. soon, JSON with the help of jq), and then uses a markdown parser (pandoc) to go through each entry in that index.

but i am not a masochist (nor am i a reactionary), so any features present in the current year’s baseline are game. but, there is no javascript in this blog and any new feature is used with progressive enhancement in mind.

i deploy to neocities via WebDAV using rclone. Dolphin, KDE’s file manager the neocities CLI. i blog on my beloved thinkpad (x1 nano gen 1; runs NixOS with KDE Plasma.) of course, this whole build environment is set up with nix (and since it’s relatively simple, it’s a simple shell.nix file. no flake.)

the text on this website is set in atkinson hyperlegible next, a variation on atkinson hyperlegible, a typeface family designed to be easy to read by users of all levels of vision. containing distinct and unambiguous letterforms as well as wide and generous glyphs—critical for legibility and readability. it was commissioned by the Braille Institute and designed by Applied Design Works, Elliott Scott, Megan Eiswerth, and Letters From Sweden.

i have spent some effort in ensuring this website is accessible to all. to be honest, it’s quite a simple website, so accessibility mostly consists of ensuring high contrast and some judicious labeling for accessibility technologies. but you can check the webaim tool if you’d like.

i don’t use generative ai in any part of the process of writing my posts, nor do i use it to generate source code.