0. Sidebar:

As you may see, a rogue sidebar appeared!

See dialogues concerning Nex; a minimal Elixir package seemingly able to speed up our production process. Many of these plans are going to be made using new approaches based on Nex.

Now, here are the planned modules to be added, already marked by sidebar placeholders.

1. chronicle

The main experience you already recognize. Much of the logic behind these essay pages is included in the Source.Page module, which makes it simple to pull into Nex someday.

That said, there is no hurry to do so. I'm going to bypass this migration, until Nex is already up and running for some of the pending pages.

One odd coincidence that I learned today is the similarity between my approach, and something from Ruby called Postwave; both approaches read the file using a preconfigured package, and the application logic has full reign to reshape the source as needed before the page render.

Since Postwave seems to be a success, perhaps you'll see our approach packaged into a hex dependency, so others in the Elixir space can make equal use.

2. dialog [pend]

Look here, we already needed a link to another domain so you could read up on our plans to use Nex!

I'd like to be able to discuss things openly on forums across the web, with no concerns for "syndicating" (linking, or copy-pasting) to this domain.

Luckily, many of my discussions happen on Discourse, and there is a premade channel for subscribing to my actions. Similarly for GitHub issues; I can use the GraphQL scheme to query the precise records needed.

3. org mode & 4. people [pend]

You should realize I do research; I go more broad than deep, like so.

I have [some grand aims] for linking ideas across cyberspace into a large graph database using Rust and the Cypher query language. Perhaps I'm only eager to appear someday on Andy Pavlo's annual db roundup.

I'm going to begin some much scrappier approaches, using .yml and cachex, to produce an explorable index of organizations and people similar to SPLC's extremist index, only for cyberspace!

In gram:nue, page dump is a simple, reliable command designed to produce a .yml backup of all pages open in my browser. I'd like to begin depending on this as a daily source of leads, each of which are then processed through a series of scrapers and mungers.

There's many directions to explore here, so as soon as those addresses are cached inside the app, I'll begin displaying them and discussing how to enrich the resources.

5. gloss [pend]

Look up in #2 - I had to describe the process of "syndication", which makes sense to you already if you do journalism or production, and perhaps is a new idea if you are a casual online denizen.

I see many examples where jargon holds up discussion, and I'd like to fully re-organize how jargon is used; imagine a pop-up mechanically similar to nutshell.

A primary aim is that using jargon should do nothing to hold up the essay process; I should be able to simply mark a phrase as gloss-arizable, and then upon publishing, see a queue of phrases that need description. This process is inspired by numerous examples of language-translations for apps.