Introducing P.F. Hawkins' relvokcor.xyz page

You might have noticed that the name of this little web space is â€œP.F. Hawkins’s Tilde Siteâ€. For some reason, when I set this up, I decided to add the ess after the possessive apostrophe. It is not strictly necessary. In other times and places I have used P.F. Hawkinsâ€™ to indicate that something is mine.P.F. Hawkinsâ€™

Strunk & White swear by the extra apostrophe. I don’t. I am surprised I included it. But I don’t know what I’d gain by removing it now. Other than dishonoring Strunk & White. Which I have no problem doing; their writing advice is a hot mess.

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This entry is not about relvokcor.xyz.

I’ve been, on-and-off, envisioning an application in my head. For years. I have long lacked the chops to build it. But I’ve been working on those chops. And I’m finally starting to think that I could build, if not the thing I want to build, then at least small parts of it. (Composibility!)

I’m not going to discuss the application further, but it’s what I was thinking about when I was going over these links:No Longer No Sense Of An Ending Aarseth, Espen Code Medium Domain-driven Design

Domain-driven Design (Wikipedia)

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Dec 24

A programming note for this nascent blog: I’m writing this in asciidoc instead of markdown.asciidoc

A programming note for this nascent blog: I’m writing this in asciidoc instead of markdown.

The vast, vast majority of plaintext-to-html blogging solutions take markdown as their plain text format of choice. I use markdown regularly, and enjoy the heck out of it.

But.

The first pain point I came across with markdown was footnotes. Oh man. Footnotes. Something so ubiquitous seems like it would come with a standard way to handle footnotes. Alas and alack, it does not. Some standards have evolved in this area, but which one you adhere to ties you down into a different â€œflavorâ€ of markdown. I use one of them on Hyperverses, and it works fine.Hyperverses

I saw asciidoc mentioned somewhere as a replacement for markdown. The context was in a larger book-publishing toolchain. And boy howdy, asciidoc has all the little typographical niceties. Not just footnotes: ALL OF THEM. I mean, seriously, it’s got ^superscript and _subscript. It automatically detects and properly links irc URLs. The source code formatting is off the chain.all

I figure relvokcor.xyz is as good a space as any to develop some asciidoc muscles.relvokcor.xyz

I figure relvokcor.xyz is as good a space as any to develop some asciidoc muscles.

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~P.F. Hawkinsâ€˜s Tilde Site~

P.F. Hawkinsâ€™s Tilde Site

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Dec 23

When I first joined relvokcor.xyz, there was plenty of discussion on what people were going to do with their tildes. I figured I would use it as an excuse to blog some. But I couldn’t just use any fancy off-the-shelf blogging solution, oh no; I needed to write my own blog software.do

After a couple months of not blogging, here I am using an off-the-shelf solution.off-the-shelf solution

After a couple months of not blogging, here I am using an off-the-shelf solution.

If you weren’t blogging, then what were you doing with your tilde?

I started off just compiling a list of cool things that people were doing with their tildes, as well as instructions on how to do cool things to ones tilde. Just editing fugly HTML4 in vim, like one does.list of cool things

Next, I took a detour into horrific kludgy scripting and made a disk usage leaderboard.disk usage leaderboard

Next, I took a detour into horrific kludgy scripting and made a disk usage leaderboard.

Finally, I noticed on twitter that folks weren’t waiting for ~ford to do something about the waitlist, and were just starting up their own tilde servers. So I started listing them.~ford

Finally, I noticed on twitter that folks weren’t waiting for ~ford to do something about the waitlist, and were just starting up their own tilde servers. So I started listing them.started listing them

Finally, I noticed on twitter that folks weren’t waiting for ~ford to do something about the waitlist, and were just starting up their own tilde servers. So I started listing them.

I like to make lists.

Since I was the first to start listing other tildes, one thing led to another, and it soon became the canonical list of tilde servers. I never meant to start a canonical list, just a list. It snowballed into ~globz and I getting all the tilde operators in touch with each other and ready for ~ford to tell his waitlist that sorry, there’s no more room at the inn, but there’s some more inns down the way.~globz

So now you’re blogging?

Yeah. Blogging. This will probably end up being a place for me to dump news about happenings across the "tildeverse". It’ll be a bit meta that way. I’ve never been one to just spill on all my personal stuff that’s going on. I like my blogs to be about ideas, or things. Even people sometimes. But rarely, if ever, me.

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Other Projects

Hyperverses Personal Site @pfhawkins

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