Note.About these notes [about]

These are working notes, not finished writing. Some are worked out carefully, others are a paragraph I wanted to get out of my head. They are public mostly as a way of making myself write things up somewhat sensibly.

Notes are organized as a forest rather than a feed: each one lives under the topic it belongs to, and links between them are two-way — every note lists the others that point at it. If the organization looks a little chaotic, that is because it grows from whatever I am working on rather than from a plan.

Press "/" on any page to search. Matching is by word prefix and covers the body text, so a phrase you half-remember is usually enough.

For who I am and what I work on, see the main about page. For everything else, my contact details are in the footer.

The site is generated by wanshi, a Typst-only static site generator I maintain for my own use. It is a fork of kodama, which is the one to look at if you want a tool of this kind: it is properly maintained, has a community around it, and takes Markdown as well as Typst. My fork drops Markdown, replaces the visual design, and has drifted toward whatever suited these notes — a different set of choices rather than a better one. Both owe their arrangement to Jon Sterling’s Forester, which is where the forest idea comes from.