Indexing a personal web

Social platforms are excellent streams and poor archives. A thought can find its people in an afternoon, then become almost impossible to find a year later. The account is visible; the person inside it is strangely illegible.

This site is an attempt at a better boundary. Short posts keep their original context and source links, but gain stable addresses. Longer writing has clean text, dates, topics, and a feed. The library turns taste into something you can inspect instead of something an algorithm has to guess.

Machine-readable is a kind of hospitality

Good structure helps everyone. Descriptive headings, plain HTML, permanent URLs, explicit dates, and useful metadata make a site easier for screen readers, search indexes, RSS clients, researchers, and language models. There is no need to hide meaning inside an app shell.

The point is not to perform for crawlers. It is to publish with enough clarity that a system can distinguish my words from a repost, a rating from a review, and a source from a mirror. Provenance matters more as generated summaries become a common way people meet the web.

A garden, not a profile

A profile is a snapshot. A garden has paths, old growth, new experiments, labels, compost, and seasonal change. This one is only beginning, but it is beginning on ground I own.