The changelog / microblog of benchristel.com
The Web Portal page has a spiffy new design, and some new features: Hit enter to navigate to the first link matching your search query. If no links matched, it'll search DuckDuckGo instead. A few DuckDuckGo bangs will autocomplete if you begin your search query with a bang. Search now finds items by URL as well as visible text. This last feature was enabled by a new release of hypersearch !…
I now have a /uses page listing the hardware and software I currently use. The metrics page is up to date with the latest data. The project to remove my dependency on web search is going well! Meanwhile, I am working on the fourth beta version of OGTRTA , a syntax framework for constructed languages.
I've posted a new article: "Code Quality: Hidden Costs, Unexpected Benefits" It being the first day of September, I've also updated the metrics page with August's data.
Earlier this year I wrote a serial essay about how Christopher Alexander's work applies to software. I just finished copying it from my Substack newsletter to this site. You can read the whole thing here .
I've released a couple improvements to the tools I use to build this website. Those tools are: mdsite , a simple static site generator that can turn any tree of Markdown files into HTML. If you want to write an HTML book like The Art of Unix Programming , or just put your digital garden on the web, mdsite has got your back. marss , which turns a Markdown changelog or microblog into an RSS…
Every time i look at what sites are linking to me in my analytics i get faintly sad. I gotta ward off the “Making A Smol Old Indie Yester Free Web Personal Garden Commonplace Book Is A Revolutionary Act” crowd somehow, if someone’s linking to me and their site’s only other page is a manifesto about how Mark Zuckerberg personally smashed every Geocities server…
I am still working out how best to organize pages on this site. This week, the welcome page came into its own as the de facto index page for this site (The true /index.html being a list of links to my other web presences). Concretely, what this means is that links labeled "Home" go to the welcome page. The only way to navigate back to /index.html is to use the "Out Again" link at the bottom of the…
Writings Published: "The Mess We're In" Quotes Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. —Ludwig Wittgenstein Currently stuck in my head J'aim la flour de valour by Guillaume de Machaut Wanted I want a list of cross-platform font-family values, using only fonts that ship with operating systems. E.g. if I want to use a humanist…
Globally install a package you're developing Today I learned that you can install a NodeJS package you're developing without first publishing it to a package registry like NPM. yarn global add "file:/absolute/path/to/repo" will do the trick. Read more... @regosen/gapless-5, tiny-invariant I've listed two new JavaScript libraries I use on the Web Portal page: @regosen/gapless-5 -…