Why I rebuilt the site
The old site was a list of pages. The new one is a graph. Here's the difference.
The previous version of this site was an al-folio Jekyll theme — perfectly respectable, perfectly ordinary. A blog with a CV. The work it represents is none of those things. The work is a small number of long arguments that keep recurring across projects, papers, and notes; the surface form (post vs project vs paper) is incidental.
So the new site treats every artifact as a node in a graph, and the relationships between them — this paper inspired that project, which critiqued that vision — are the navigation. There are still pages. They are no longer the unit.
The single hardest design choice is the edges. Auto-deriving them from text similarity gives you correlation, not influence. The graph is only as good as the human work of curating it. I'm betting that work is small enough to do as a side-effect of writing.
We'll see.
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