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The meta-worklog for building out this site.

July 2025

2025-07-05

So far, I've been publishing ad-hoc with a bash script sitting in a second repository. I'm finally bringing everything together to mirror my previous websites, and trying to aggressively apply AI agents to build and maintain this edition of my public notebook.

Generally looking for something that is easy to maintain and work with, easily searchable online for personal use, and I can use over the next several decades.

One convention/decision I've been struggling with

• folder/folder.md vs folder/index.md vs having folder.md and folder/ as siblings to make index pages.
• tentatively going with folder.md first, and then folder/index.md both mapping to folder to start.

The other convention is around having separate files per date; without transclusion I think it makes more sense to have these inline in the actual documents, I can generate journal pages using some scripts: but having the root pages have the contents split by date by default makes the most sense to me.

January 2025

Setting up for the new year

General plans:

• Update termdex to make publishing the site easier
• Collect notes from slipbox here, migrating to markdown
• Extract collections of notes from the newsletters, collating by heading
• Set up cross references between headings, links, and auto generate indexes
• Get some tools to refactor markdown
• Make the index and recent updates a bit more automatic
• Serve from my laptop as a dynamic website instead

(These are mainly as a reminder to myself, while I'm feeling particularly motivated.)

— Kunal