the thing i'm least clear on, though, is what does one do for stuff that's just, a text, in 书社. large chunks of my rules summaries (and conlang descriptions) are just text formatted for readability and easy reference (currently written mostly in markdown and HTML respectively). would that just be ...

i can't say i fully understand this BUT i would love to know more as i find it quite fascinating!


It’s hard to judge what anyone’s level of experience with this stuff is, but I know you know about the fediverse, so I’ll work my way backwards :⁠—


The contemporary, Mastodon‐compatible ...

wait omg this is really damn cool! i don't ever think i've seen something like a static site generator that's XML and makefile based. i might have to give this a try even though i don't know XML stuff at all (<-- can barely make an RSS feed from scratch lol)


Prior art is Shrine-XSLT , which was ...

I only know about it because it is written by the same person as wrote ‘Modern C’, which I am currently reading, but are you aware of EĿlipsis? It claims « Currently we have rudimentary support for lex and for general text processing languages, and more specifically for html and markdown. »

https://www.aaronland.info/weblog/2021/ ... ontinuous/

I am constantly thinking about this essay, so it seemed like as good a thing as any to get this category started with.

The following is a highly‐critical review of the book on Amazon :⁠—


First off, like all academic texts, written by academics living and working inside the walls of the University-apparatus, the writing of the book is dull, uninspired, and seriously lacking in energy, including any memorable ...

This topic is for discussing ⛩️📰 书社 , the static site generator I’ve been developing for the past year. The basic idea is to use X·S·L·T to transform maintainable source files into complete webpages, and G·N·U Make for dependency tracking to speed up the build times.

The feature·set has expanded as ...

I’ve been working on documenting this vocabulary for a while now and recently published the results to vocab.ladys.computer. This is mostly a topic to show that off, but feel free to chime in with other thoughts about social networking metadata and various approaches there·of.

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