About this site

Purpose

I iterated over a couple of longish drafts for this page. After reviewing these drafts I realised I could say it better with the following essential summary:

This website is my playground and vanity page.¹

I anticipate this website will contain both long (gradually expanded and refined) and short (one-off cruft) content².

Let’s see what happens.

Guidelines

In the development of this site, there are some general guidelines I have been following:

• plain and simple³
  • in presentation and technology
  • no Javascript
    • I might reluctantly compromise on the no-javascript principle in future, if a particular project or feature depends on it
• respect visitors⁴
  • no services that might implement tracking are included⁵
• openness / freedom (see below)
  • trying to make ‘published’ the default
  • GPL / CC’s licensing

Technical

This website is generated using Hakyll. Hakyll has provided all I need from a website generation tool - as you can tell by the lack of my tinkering with it. The source of this website is freely available on Github. If the holes in the networking cheese align, each post will have a working link in the footer to the source document it was produced from⁶.

Openness

How much of this website and all related material is actually public? The posts are obviously publicly available, as is the source code for the site. But there is additional material:

• drafts
• todos and ideas (meta)
• general website organisation notes and scratchpad (meta)

I set out to quantify the amount of material in each category. A naive formulation for the openness of this website can be defined:

%openness = ∑lines_published/∑lines_unpublished

The intention is that this website will to move towards being 100 % open⁷.

Current status

Category	Num lines
Published	2736
Draft (unpublished)	494
Meta (unpublished)	184
Total	3414
% Open	80.14

Licence

Unless otherwise noted in the specific resource (webpage, image etc.), all content of this website is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This excludes images and content shared from other sources, which will (hopefully) be noted as appropriate.

Code hosted on my Github is under the licence in its repository.

Finally, while I may strive for accuracy in the minority of posts, I disclaim that anything I say bears anything more than a passing resemblance to reality.

So why “Bagsend”?

A large pocket.

Everyday useful items go in and out. Miscellanea, less useful, accrete. The useful get extra polish from all the movement, the rest dust each other, and exchange a little crud.

A pocket made too large becomes a bag, so here we are. The bag is a holding space for thoughts and their spawn. Maybe some useful things will be born of it; useful idea’s go in and out to be built on. Typical success means leaving the bag - a work complete enough to survive in the world on it’s own. Remove those, and you are left with small stray thoughts, and errant projects. Stubs of work. Lost time. Idle thoughts.

This could be the ‘in progress’ projects box. Or the shelf collecting partly-finished wooden figures. I prefer the pocket view. Enter the pocket. Turn out the bag. Brushing it out might be necessary. Now tease the resulting heapy mound into categories, and present them⁸.

Show the world lint and fluffs, there is beauty in fabric rusts.

Contact

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