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This website documents itself because invisible machinery has a habit of becoming mysterious machinery.

This website

The source is written and maintained from Android using Termux. Cloudflare builds the repository with Hugo and publishes the generated public/ directory through Wrangler.

Why Hugo?

Because the archive should remain understandable as files on a disk.

Markdown holds the writing. Images remain images. Git holds the history. Hugo assembles navigation, archives, place pages, taxonomies and RSS. The publication it produces is ordinary static HTML.

If Hugo vanished, the source would still be recognisable.

FIELD and INK

There is no “dark mode”. There are two editions.

FIELD is the daylight edition: khaki ground, dark ink and pale paper. It owes something to field manuals, survey maps and naturalists’ notebooks.

INK is the evening edition: purple printing ink, dark type and pale paper. It owes something to a darkroom, an independent newspaper and an obscure scientific journal found at the back of a library.

Between 06:00 and 18:00 the site chooses FIELD; after 18:00 it chooses INK. A manual choice overrides the clock and is remembered locally in the browser.

Typography

No typeface is downloaded.

Editorial text and major headings use the reader’s local Georgia/Times-style serif. Navigation and interface text use the local system sans-serif. Measurements, record numbers and technical metadata use the local monospace face.

That is not merely a performance decision. The mixture gives prose, labelling and data visibly different jobs.

Images

The intended photographic system keeps one master image and produces several deliberate derivatives:

MASTER
  ├── FIELD DITHER
  ├── INK DITHER
  ├── WEB IMAGE
  └── ORIGINAL — optional

The small dither is the normal publication image. A larger conventional image should be requested by the reader rather than downloaded automatically.

No ecological claim is inferred from a small file merely because it is small. Page-weight or energy figures are shown only when they can be measured defensibly.

Publishing from Android

The normal editorial machine is:

SEE SOMETHING
      ↓
WRITE MARKDOWN / ADD PHOTOGRAPH
      ↓
HUGO SERVER
      ↓
GIT ADD
      ↓
GIT COMMIT
      ↓
GIT PUSH
      ↓
CLOUDFLARE BUILD
      ↓
STATIC FILES

No admin panel is involved.

Rights and reuse

The machinery should be easier to copy than the photographs.

Code: released under the MIT Licence.
Original writing: licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 unless a page says otherwise.
Photographs and original visual artwork: © Tyson Barnes. All rights reserved unless explicitly marked otherwise.

In practical terms: reuse the code, quote or republish the writing with attribution under its licence, and ask before reproducing the photographs.