diff --git a/assets/scss/_main.scss b/assets/scss/_main.scss index db7f1635..bbffc8a0 100644 --- a/assets/scss/_main.scss +++ b/assets/scss/_main.scss @@ -770,4 +770,4 @@ a[href^="/tags/"]:before { content: '#'; text-decoration: none; display:inline-block; -} \ No newline at end of file +} diff --git a/assets/scss/_menu.scss b/assets/scss/_menu.scss index 407c03bc..fa7d6cdc 100644 --- a/assets/scss/_menu.scss +++ b/assets/scss/_menu.scss @@ -39,11 +39,19 @@ list-style: none; li { - margin: 0 12px; + margin: 0 6px; } li.micro a { filter: grayscale(1); + span { + display: none; + } + + &:before { + content: attr(data-short-name); + display: inline; + } &:hover { text-decoration: none; @@ -59,6 +67,10 @@ li { margin: 0; padding: 5px; + + &.micro a span { + display: inline; + } } } } diff --git a/config.toml b/config.toml index 88d3f4d5..7fd24cde 100644 --- a/config.toml +++ b/config.toml @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ date = ["date", "publishDate", "lastmod", ":git"] # Metadata mostly used in document's head description = "JP Hastings-Spital: Software Engineer" - keywords = "homepage, blog, science, software, miriscient, programming" + keywords = "homepage, blog, science, software, miriscient, programming, indieweb, memex" images = [""] customJS = ["/js/postcards-html.js"] @@ -88,18 +88,21 @@ date = ["date", "publishDate", "lastmod", ":git"] # You can create a language based menu [languages.en.menu] + [[languages.en.menu.main]] + identifier = "mail" + name = "📮 Contact me" + url = "/standing-invitation" + weight = 1 [[languages.en.menu.main]] identifier = "curiosities" - name = "Curiosities" + name = "🤩 Curiosities" url = "/curiosities" + weight = 2 [[languages.en.menu.main]] identifier = "posts" - name = "Posts" + name = "📔 Posts" url = "/posts" - [[languages.en.menu.main]] - identifier = "mail" - name = ":postbox:" - url = "/standing-invitation" + weight = 3 [sitemap] filename = 'sitemap.xml' diff --git a/content/memex/_index.md b/content/memex/_index.md index fdf79c84..838f1a6f 100644 --- a/content/memex/_index.md +++ b/content/memex/_index.md @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ --- title: Memex +summary: My memory-expander; a space for me to keep links and thoughts that are interesting for reference later. --- Taking a cue from personal sites around the web, this memex keeps unformed ideas, links and references around for me to find and use later. @@ -7,3 +8,5 @@ Taking a cue from personal sites around the web, this memex keeps unformed ideas > Memex, a portmanteau of memory and expansion, is a hypothetical electromechanical device for interacting with documents, described in Vannevar Bush's 1945 article "As We May Think". Bush envisioned the memex as a device which individuals could use as "an enlarged intimate supplement to their memory" and "mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility". > > — Adapted from [Memex](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex) on the Wikipedia. + +Keeping a space like this is a new idea for me (here in late 2023), so there are lots of stub-notes and unfinished thoughts. diff --git a/content/memex/art/_index.md b/content/memex/art/_index.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2767ba10 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/memex/art/_index.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +--- +title: Art +emoji: 🎨 +summary: Making things that you don't need to. +--- + +{{< openlibrary "9781914236105" >}} + +I love making things. Recently bought a mini book at the Tate in Liverpool called [Art is the thing nobody asked you to do](https://roughtradebooks.com/products/art-is-the-thing-nobody-asked-you-to-do-babak-ganjei), and without even picking it up I felt a connection with that description of art. I _do_ love creating things, but often its the unnecessary things, the expressive and intriguing ones, that I enjoy the most. + +I look forward to reading that book, and to this section of the memex growing quickly! diff --git a/content/memex/art/postcards.md b/content/memex/art/postcards.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..8c2aa64b --- /dev/null +++ b/content/memex/art/postcards.md @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +--- +title: Postcards +emoji: 📮 +summary: Short notes on cards, mailed to friends, since the late 1860s. +draft: true +--- + diff --git a/content/memex/art/pottery.md b/content/memex/art/pottery.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b84fdcbd --- /dev/null +++ b/content/memex/art/pottery.md @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +--- +title: Pottery +emoji: 🏺 +summary: Making objects out of clay. +--- + +## Turning clay + +I went to a wonderful 4 week beginners pottery class at [Culford studios](https://www.culfordstudios.co.uk/), courtesy of a birthday present from {{< friend "yvette" >}} — I really want to go back to do a longer course! diff --git a/content/memex/art/spectre.webp b/content/memex/art/spectre.webp new file mode 100644 index 00000000..fe62cca3 Binary files /dev/null and b/content/memex/art/spectre.webp differ diff --git a/content/memex/art/tiles.md b/content/memex/art/tiles.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1220be08 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/memex/art/tiles.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +--- +title: Tiles +emoji: 🔲 +summary: Shapes that fit together to create an infinite pattern. +--- + +## Aperiodic monotiles + +{{< figure src="../spectre.webp" caption="The spectre aperiodic monotile, with \"odd\" tiles shaded." >}} + +2023 was a good year for tiling! The Einstein hat and Sprectre aperiodic monotiles were discovered and [documented](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/spectre/). These are special because they've been proven to _never repeat_. There's something really quite wonderful about that! + +I've designed 3D-printed cookie cutters that could make ceramic tiles with these, but I've not reached out to my local potters to ask for some time to make them — and I haven't figured out the 'rules' for placing a tile next to others, some placings definitely end up making tilings that can't be completed. + +## Mosaics + +I've been toying with the idea of creating ceramic tiles with glazes specially chosen/mixed to have levels of reflectivity to sodium light at λ = ~589 nm that are different to their white/solar light grayscale mapping. + +This would allow me to make a day/night split mosaic; in the day the full-colour mosaic would be of one picture, but by night the street lights' singular frequency lamps (if I can find anywhere that still uses sodium lamps!) would create a different grayscale image that would jump out! diff --git a/content/memex/games/_index.md b/content/memex/games/_index.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..6a085bfc --- /dev/null +++ b/content/memex/games/_index.md @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +--- +title: Games +emoji: 🃏 +summary: Agreeing on rules to play together with limited stakes. +--- \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/memex/games/boardgames.md b/content/memex/games/boardgames.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..8341a304 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/memex/games/boardgames.md @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +--- +title: Board games +tags: +- graphic-design +- 60s +summary: Games together played around a table. +--- + +## Sorry! + +My Mum & her sister used to play a game called [Sorry!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorry!_(game)) as kids. Mum still has their version of the boardgame, and the design of the board and the cards is enchanting! + +{{< figure src="../sorry-outer.webp" alt="The outer box of the Sorry! boargame, with the name in big bold red font from the 60s, embossed on a blue background, on a white and yellow box." title="The copyright is 1951 and 1963, so this is probably a 60s edition. I think it shows in the typography choices.">}} + +{{< figure src="../sorry-board.webp" alt="Half of the game board, showing the blue and yellow players' homes of the four-way rotationally symmetric board." title="Each of the four sides has a different season of the same tree beautifully illustrated behind the game." >}} + +{{< figure src="../sorry-cards.webp" alt="A wide angle and close-up of the 11 card with text reading “Any one of your margin men may change places with any one margin man of any opponent.”" title="The font choice and bold single colour design really appeal to me!" >}} diff --git a/content/memex/games/sorry-board.webp b/content/memex/games/sorry-board.webp new file mode 100644 index 00000000..25548e89 Binary files /dev/null and b/content/memex/games/sorry-board.webp differ diff --git a/content/memex/games/sorry-cards.webp b/content/memex/games/sorry-cards.webp new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7c1203d8 Binary files /dev/null and b/content/memex/games/sorry-cards.webp differ diff --git a/content/memex/games/sorry-outer.webp b/content/memex/games/sorry-outer.webp new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ecc37433 Binary files /dev/null and b/content/memex/games/sorry-outer.webp differ diff --git a/content/memex/language/to-be.md b/content/memex/language/to-be.md index 99a1a1a2..b719b8d9 100644 --- a/content/memex/language/to-be.md +++ b/content/memex/language/to-be.md @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ links: I've been facinated by #to-be as a word since I started learning #Spanish and noticed that Ser and Estar can be used to separate out a temporary and permanent state of being; "I am sad" has an implicit temporary nature to it (rather than the permanence that can be implied with English). ---- +## Forms of 'to be' The [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime) article on E-Prime calls out a number of different uses of 'to be' that impressed me, as I'd not thought about how many variable uses it has! @@ -24,6 +24,4 @@ The [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime) article on E-Prime calls - existence: (medial-proadverb-of-location copula noun-phrase) There is a cat. - location: (noun-phrase copula location-phrase) The cat is nowhere to be found. ---- - The [Wictionary Post](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/be) has 23 unique uses of 'to be' in English I should read through! diff --git a/content/memex/language/toki-pona.md b/content/memex/language/toki-pona.md index 869f6d48..acce0e69 100644 --- a/content/memex/language/toki-pona.md +++ b/content/memex/language/toki-pona.md @@ -17,8 +17,6 @@ I've enjoyed thinking about this #conlang a lot! I depend a lot on phrasing thin With only ~120 words and 14 characters it's _tiny_, and forces you to talk around ---- - ## alone - a poem _Quite an intense one! I'm yet to find other pre-translated toki-pona poems. Perhaps I'll try translating one at some point!_ @@ -46,15 +44,15 @@ And Darkness shall reign forevermore. [source](https://www.tokipona.org/angst.html) ---- +## Poetry book [A collection of 27 poems](https://tokipona.org/toki_lili_27_poems_in_toki_pona.pdf) listed on the homepage ---- +## Computer-written poetry Someone [wrote code to write (semi-sensical) poetry](https://kevingal.com/blog/toki-poetry.html) in Toki Pona, which looks really fun. ---- +## Fonts There seem to be a number of fonts that people have created for the _written_ form of toki pona, like [Fairfax HD](https://www.kreativekorp.com/software/fonts/fairfaxhd/) which covers 'all the conlangs in the [registry](https://www.kreativekorp.com/ucsur/)' which will definitely be fun to play with. diff --git a/content/memex/thought/human-rights.md b/content/memex/thought/human-rights.md index a60b00ad..6a6eac88 100644 --- a/content/memex/thought/human-rights.md +++ b/content/memex/thought/human-rights.md @@ -4,7 +4,10 @@ draft: false tags: - philosophy - simone-weil + - philsophize-this summary: The concept of communally agreed standards of behaviour towards other humans. --- -Simone Weil & "Human Need" compared to "Human Rights" — 'rights' being an imposition of the legal world onto the human. Are your 'rights' to bodily autonomy really a legal right, or _required_ in order to be able to call yourself human with certainty? +## Simone Weil + +From [Philosophize This! ep.173](https://www.philosophizethis.org/transcript/episode-173-transcript#:~:text=Simone%20Weil%2C%20quite%20famously%2C%20was%20NOT%20a%20big%20fan%20of%20human%20rights%20discussions); Simone Weil preferred "Human Needs" to "Human Rights". 'Rights' being an imposition of the legal world onto the human. Are your 'rights' to bodily autonomy really a legal right, or _required_ in order to be able to call yourself human with certainty? diff --git a/layouts/memex/list.html b/layouts/memex/list.html index 0d8ce2d8..d595b431 100644 --- a/layouts/memex/list.html +++ b/layouts/memex/list.html @@ -3,15 +3,25 @@ {{ partial "memex-header.html" . }} -
I post here infrequently about things I've created or care about, as well as keeping track of what I'm up to now. Recently I've written - {{ $posts := where .Site.RegularPages "Params.type" "!=" "timeless" }} +
I write infrequently about things I've created or care about in posts, I keep notes on interesting things in my memex, and sometimes post photos too. Find out what I'm up to now, or read a recent article like + {{ $posts := where .Site.RegularPages "Section" "posts" }} {{ range $posts | first 2 }} {{ .Title }}, {{ end }} diff --git a/layouts/partials/menu.html b/layouts/partials/menu.html index f559be2b..f2891af4 100644 --- a/layouts/partials/menu.html +++ b/layouts/partials/menu.html @@ -1,23 +1,7 @@