About this site

After years of squatting on the shifting sands and chic favelas of the Web 2.0 stacks, I decided to make a proper website. An internet room of my own, a website that would stand the test of time, and be not beholden to the whims of shady and shortsighted startups—the quora slums, the wordpress slums, the twitter slums, where you own nothings and are happy.

So I set out to own a website with the design goals of simplicity, longevity, and speed. To achieve these aims, I enlisted the wise and powerful counsel of Josef Thorne.

In collaboration, we searched for simple and durable frameworks such as werc and crew, which led to him writing his own, called Travail. That is the architecture that makes this site so beautiful, quick, and lindy.

Travail generates site pages from local files written in Markdown. The Travail template is a single 100 line OCaml file with HTML-like syntax.