About This Website

Authored by

Climate Change Chat for Realists
- This is the same name as a livestream project about climate change I do
  - Why is the website named after the livestream project?
    - Because I want to call attention to my project

Have a creative outlet free of limitations and impositions of corporate social media platforms
make it exceptionally easy to update and maintain
- will be less likely to abandon a project that is less of a pain to update
share ideas and notes with other easily and quickly
keep track of shit

all content is published to github to a publicly available repo
- people can go to github and suggest edits
all new content is publshed with custom vim maps
- Example:
  - Typing <leader>www does the following:
    - saves the markdown file I'm working on
    - processes the markdow file and converts to HTML
    - commits the markdown and HTML file to a git repo
    - pushes all outstanding changes to all files out to the remote repo
I can quickly whip out text and publish it to web with little effort
git will give me an entire history of every change published to the site
- nothing will be lost to the historians who stumble upon my great work :)
  - as long as there is electricity
  - and the apocalypse hasn't occurred
    - but no one will give a rats ass about my work at that point
      - people barely give a rats ass about it now
content is pulled in every minute to web server running a cron

all pages are created and edited with vim text editor
- more accurately, neovim, a fork of vim
allows you to avoid using a mouse
- I fucking hate using a mouse
  - Way too slow
  - Way too tedious
  - I get around the computer as much as possible with keystrokes and hot keys
    - It requires some obsession to get there
    - But, in the end, it makes computing far more enjoyable for me
about vim
- used heavily by open source coders
benefits
- absolutely the fastest way to input and maniupalate text
primary plugins used to crate these pages
- vimwiki
  - designed to easily create wiki pages
  - has simple templating system for standardizing pages
  - easily creates outline and links
  - allows pages written in markdown format
  - converts vimwiki pages to html using a ruby gem called vimwiki_markdown
  - also uses some special sauce code that I wrote
- taskwiki
  - a bridge between taskwarrior task software and vimwiki
  - allows vimwiki to be the interface for managing tasks

It's inherent to the design of the software I used to write it
- called vimwiki
It's much faster to write this way
- no agonizing over how eloquent I'm being and how well ideas flow
- much fucking faster to edit/revise
- aiming for quantity over quality
Ideas can be conveyed very succinctly
I have a hunch prose is dead
- 20th century media killed poetry
- prose killed by the internet
- I notice my own increasing impatience reading wordy shit
  - just get me to the meat of the matter, especially on reality-based topics
    - I'll fill in the emotional details with my own imagination

People don't actually read newspapers. They step into them every morning like a hot bath.

--- Marshall McLuhan

It's not as plain as it used to be
- Gave it a good facelift on 3/5/22
I'm more concerned with content and functionality than design
- simpler is better
I don't want it to be time-consuming
- A design that looks like a magazine and is both functional and not annoying to update and maintain takes a huge amount of effort
Things will improve slowly over time as I work on it
- may add some graphics to spiff it up a little
- right now, I'm not sure I like the colors
  - may play with it some more