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“A website is for a visitor, using a browser, running on a computer to read, watch, listen, or perhaps to interact. A website that embraces Brutalist Web Design is raw in its focus on content, and prioritization of the website visitor.”

This is how I have designed pile.org, though I hadn’t rigorously thought through my philosophy, and it springs as much from my inability and unwillingness to engage with fancier design as from a focus on readers' needs.

In addition to converting older posts, I’m going to be posting one thing from my backlog every evening, until I’m caught up. Then, who knows, maybe I’ll keep up with this instead of letting it go fallow for almost a year.

Just updated some of the infrastructure behind this microblog. Articles had been unstructured text with tags; now, it supports structured data, which lets me do things like make lists of authors and publications.

I’ve converted some of the newest and oldest posts, and will gradually convert the rest. The list of tags still exists, but with authors and publications all mixed in; those will move to the proper lists as I convert posts.

Added a visible RSS link to the bottom of the front page, rather than only buried in the site metadata.

My to-do list:

• Fix up the formatting on smaller screens.
• Explain a bit about this ongoing project.
• Possibly transfer entries from @sben_links, though that’s going to be non-trivial (e.g. what do I do about dead links?).

While I catch up on my backlog of posts, I’m going to be interspersing the backlog with things I’ve just read.