How I'm writing

I'm :gardening.

Expect my stuff on this site to grow and change and be re-arranged. Expect words and toys and videos and transcripts and lists and tools. I hope that you'll find this collection to be an interesting place to explore.

Don't expect the text to stay static. These are not magazine articles, this collection is not a blog or a diary or a textbook.

In my more ambitious imaginings, this site is an experience. I hope that it is, :like some gardens, a pleasant place to explore.

Cheers –

James

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I'm building a few facilities for readers; some to make these pages more-explorable, some to make them more usable:

• Backlinks – you'll find a button at the bottom of each page showing what pages link in to the page you're on.
• Search – the search tool will let you tun a fuzzy search of most of the text of the site. Use your browser to search the page.
• Dynamic footnotes – I'm using nutshell from Nicky Case to give you anchors which expand to give you more text, but which might be a distraction to the flow of the words. Links with a : in front mean you get to glance at related content, rather than re-routing your exploration to see it.
• Canonical links – will help me to make pages and variants without breaking links, though you may find that the text may have changed.
• Change indicators – you can see when the page last changed, and I'll indicate state and edits :somewhere
• Comments and contributions – I hope that my readers want to share their thoughts. Comments are on for subscribers, and I can give you editing access for deeper and more collaborative stuff.
• Expanding sections – I'll put some topics in sections that fold up (or unfold, depending on mood) so that you can get them out of the way (or bring them up) as you need.
• Change control – I'll put big revisions on GitHub.
• Table of contents – planned for big pages
• Lots of ways in – this isn't a book, to be read from start to end. It's a web.
• Tags – each page will have several tags, each tag will take you to a list of other pages with the same tag, and the tags will arise as we go.
• Print to pdf – when I sort the CSS, you'll find that the current state of the page will print nicely to pdf.