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How this site is made.

Writing

Everything starts as plain-text notes I keep for myself. A few of them become things here. I draft and edit with help from an LLM, including agent skills, and I decide what goes out.

Dates and stages

A note’s date is when the idea first showed up in my notes, not when the page was written. Each notes also show a stage:

• Seedling: a rough first thought, recently planted. Expect gaps.
• Budding: taking shape, revised a few times, and still growing.
• Evergreen: settled enough to stand on its own, though still tended.

Connections

Notes link to each other with a named verb, like informs or part of. Every verb and every connection is listed on Relations.

Setting

Text is set in Schibsted Grotesk. Paths, dates and labels are in IBM Plex Mono. Both are served from this site. The paper is #F4F5F2 and the ink is #15191C.

The mark and the sketch

The NN mark is 32 small squares. Hover over it and they flicker, like a machine at work. The drawing on the home page is an untitled Processing sketch of mine in JavaScript from around 2017–18, redrawn in plain canvas in 2026.

Building

Each note is a Markdown file. A small TypeScript build turns them into plain HTML and CSS, checks every link and connection, and publishes to GitHub Pages.