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Please note that this webpage looks phenomenally best in Firefox.
Goal01
Giving people the means to express themselves
I am a writer at heart, and I got into web design because I wanted to publish the stories I wrote as webpages. But it turns out that knowing HTML is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to creating and distributing resources online. I am interested in building tools for helping people to (re)present themselves over the internet, in ways that stay true to who they are, rather than what some platform thinks they should be.
BookGen
BookGen is a GNU Makefile for turning Markdown documents into PDF and HTML books. It’s the build system that I use for all of my longform writing, and while it’s a little messy, it gets the job done. Someday I’d like to make something which is a little more modular and not written in GNU Make, but that’s probably still a good time out.
KiT2X.xslt
Recently I have begun experimenting with using TEI documents to achieve the same effect as some of my more complicated BookGen styles, with less work. KiT2X.xslt is an XSL Transformation which can be applied to a TEI Lite document to make it viewable in web browsers. Here is an example (note: requires Firefox 76 or later):
Market Commons
Markdown is a good and easy‐to‐use markup language, but if you’re writing documents with complex internal structure, or which have particular accessibility requirements, its limitations can overcome its strengths. Market Commons is a quick‐and‐dirty markup language for writing HTML documents in fewer characters than HTML documents typically take. It’s implemented in, and requires, Racket, and may still have a few bugs here or there.
The Fediverse
One of the places where people express themselves on the internet a lot is social media. But the models of social media which we are working with today force the people who use them to conform to their developers’ model of “what a user should look like” in order to make themselves heard. I think that decentralized social media has a lot of potential for breaking with this platform model, and have spent a great deal of time working to both develop and theorize it in the past. Here, I’ve collected a list of fediverse‐related documents that I’ve written over the years.
As of May 2020, I am now a community moderator for the Mastodon instance at Cybre.Space.
Style: \u2764
I learned how to design webpages primarily from looking at the source code of various other people’s amateur webpages. But the age of the amateur webpage is well behind us now. Style: \u2764 is a repository of some of the web designs that I have created over the years, to serve as a sort of reference material for what amateur web design might look like in 2020 and beyond.
Goal02
Experimenting with language
Kixt
I’m a noted Unicode fan—I manually refresh the UTC Document Register, which I have as a pinned as a tab in my browser, at least once a day—but I think it is important to place Unicode in perspective, which is to say, understand its design goals. Particularly, Unicode is poorly‐suited for developing or working with niche or experimental character encodings—precisely because of its status as the Universal Character Set.
Kixt: KIBI Text is a set of related specifications under development for handling those sorts of niche‐character‐set concerns. KixtView is a sample application which is capable of reading Kixt character data.
Goal03
Advancing the artform of literature
I’m a longstanding critic of the state of English literature and I don’t believe in criticizing an artform if you aren’t about to participate in it as well. Frankly, I make a better editor than writer, but for the time being my own output is the only thing I have to work with.
Fanfiction by J’Li
I keep a number of fanfiction projects going, primarily for Nintendo properties, which I publish to Archive of Our Own. They tend to be highly experimental, esoteric, and unpopular. I’ve created an overview of said projects here for your perusal. Note: These stories are not intended for children.
Journal: \u2764
If we expand the definition of literature to include “casual criticism”, I also keep a web‐journal running over at Journal: \u2764. The goal of this journal is to reimagine internet publishing as a union of form and content, with each page standing on its own with a unique design and character. It’s also something of a storage space for my thoughts that is a little more permanent that what one might find on social media.
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Getting in touch
If you want to contact me, the best place to do so is on the fediverse. My principal account is @jellyfish_link
My pronouns are they/