Hi, stranger! Welcome to my little computer on the net!

This website contains a wiki, several blog posts, a collection of silly songs, a pun, a hidden passage to another dimension, a list of dog names, a list of names that are not dog names, references to my early memories, several photos of myself eating ice cream, a coin, a yellow bird, a photo of your turtle, a turtle.

I get sad when I spend my time consuming instead of making things. This website is my attempt to spend more time thinking, documenting, and making.

One menu for everything this site needs: creating content, refreshing the data files, and running Jekyll.

./computer              # open the menu
./computer post         # jump straight to one action
./computer --help       # list the action ids

The menu is three pages — Write, Update and Tools. ←→ (or ⇥, or h/l) moves between them, ↑↓ (or j/k) moves down a page, ⏎ runs, esc quits. / filters, and while filtering the search leaves its page: every match from every page shows up, under the name of the page it came from.

The dev server is not on any page in particular — s opens it from anywhere in the menu, and the top right corner says whether it is up and on which port.

In a form: ⏎ for the next field, ⇧⇥ to go back, esc to cancel. Fields come pre-filled with a sensible guess (the location of the last post, the camera detected from the photo filenames, the date read off the first photo) — press ⏎ to accept it or type over it.

Dates accept now, yesterday, 3 days ago, last friday, in 2 weeks, 21:30, 2026-08-01 or 2026-08-01 21:30, and the resolved date is shown as you type. A bare day means midnight.

When adding photos, paste or type one filename per line — paths and extensions are stripped, so dragging files in works. Put a ratio after a filename to override the 3/2 default:

2026-07-16-Berlin-R0021086 2/3

In a photo post, a + between two filenames puts them side by side in one row, which is how two vertical photos go together. A line that starts with + pairs with the photo entered just before it, so both of these say the same thing:

2026-07-16-Berlin-R0021086 + 2026-07-16-Berlin-R0021087 2/3

2026-07-16-Berlin-R0021086 2/3
+ 2026-07-16-Berlin-R0021087

They come out of the form as one entry that names the other photo, and a photo post lays that out as a row of its own:

filenames:
  - filename: 2026-07-16-Berlin-R0021086
    pair: 2026-07-16-Berlin-R0021087
    ratio: 2/3

The row splits the width evenly and both photos take the ratio of the entry, so a pair is one ratio, one caption and one entry — the photo count and the album and grid pages know about the second one. Three abreast is a pair: of two names, separated by a space or written as a list. On mobile they stack.

Reportage bodies are laid out from those ratios: consecutive portraits pair up into a {% row %}, everything else becomes a {% stack %}. A reportage has no pair: — its rows are markup in the body, and its filenames: block is the flat list that ./computer filenames rebuilds from those tags, so a + typed in that form just adds the two photos to the list.

./computer place writes a place with the pid posts link to (defaulted from the title, and refused if it is already taken) and asks for its coordinates, which can be typed as 41.3924, 2.1648 or pasted as a Google or Apple Maps link — the pin in the URL wins over the map centre. The location suggestions are the cities that have a map in content/_maps, since a place with no map has nowhere to show up. Tags takes a comma-separated list and suggests the vocabulary already in use, so a second "café" doesn't arrive as "cafés"; the tags show up on the map cards and filter the sidebar when clicked.

./computer update asks what to refresh instead of assuming: movies, subscribers and syndication come ticked (what "update everything" always meant), books and places are one space away, a ticks the lot, and ⏎ runs them one after another into the same transcript. With nothing ticked, ⏎ runs whatever the cursor is on.

./computer publish closes the loop: it lists every change with its git status, shows the branch and where it will push, then asks for a commit message (pre-filled with the title of the post you just added, when the change is a single new post). Nothing is staged until you confirm, and pushing main is what triggers the GitHub Actions deploy.

Every new file is offered to your editor the moment it is written, and ./computer edit reopens anything you wrote earlier — drafts first (greyed out and marked draft), then the newest posts, listed as date and title and filterable with /. The editor is $VISUAL, then $EDITOR, then the first of nvim, vim, code -w, nano or open -t found on your PATH.

./computer serve — or s, from anywhere in the menu — starts Jekyll in the background and gives the menu back, so you can keep writing while it builds. A spinner waits for the site to answer on localhost:4001 — press any key to stop watching and get on with it. The server outlives the CLI: s then opens a small screen with the uptime, the log (.computer/serve.log), restart and stop, and ./computer stop stops it from anywhere. Set PORT to run a second copy of the site somewhere else:

PORT=4002 ./computer serve

Reportage posts mix text blocks, photos, and photo layouts using four custom Liquid tags.

Embeds a single photo.

{% photo location filename %}
{% photo location filename ratio %}
{% photo location filename ratio alt:"Alt text" %}
{% photo location filename ratio caption:"Caption shown below photo" %}
{% photo location filename ratio alt:"Alt text" caption:"Caption" class:is-wide %}

Vertical stack of photos or layout elements. Accepts optional modifier classes: has-margin-top, has-margin-bottom, with-caption.

{% stack %}
{% photo barcelona R0018016 3/2 %}
{% photo barcelona R0018017 3/2 %}
{% endstack %}

Horizontal row of photos displayed side by side. Accepts optional modifier classes: has-two, has-margin-bottom.

{% row %}
{% photo berlin R0003695 2/3 %}
{% photo berlin R0003700 2/3 %}
{% endrow %}

Text block interspersed between photos. Accepts optional modifier class: has-margin-top.

{% text %}
<p>Spanish text here.</p>
<p class="is-light">English translation here.</p>
{% endtext %}

Auto-fit photo grid. Accepts optional layout variants: is-vertical, is-square, is-half.

{% grid is-vertical %}
{% photo berlin R0003695 %}
{% photo berlin R0003700 %}
{% endgrid %}

Wraps a vertical photo with arbitrary HTML content beside it. The photo is capped at 95vh. Accepts left or right for alignment (centered by default).

{% single left %}
{% photo barcelona R0018048 2/3 %}
<div>Text displayed to the right of the photo.</div>
{% endsingle %}

{% single right %}
<div>Text displayed to the left of the photo.</div>
{% photo barcelona R0018048 2/3 %}
{% endsingle %}

On mobile, content stacks vertically: text above the photo for left, text below for right.

All layout tags (stack, row, grid, single) accept gap-N classes to override the default spacing, where N maps to the --s-N CSS variables (1–16).

{% stack gap-8 %}
{% row gap-4 %}
{% single left gap-6 %}

{% text %}
<p>Intro text.</p>
<p class="is-light">English translation.</p>
{% endtext %}

{% stack %}
{% photo barcelona R0018016 3/2 alt:"Person on a bench" %}
{% row %}
{% photo barcelona R0018021 2/3 %}
{% photo barcelona R0018022 2/3 %}
{% endrow %}
{% photo barcelona R0018033 3/2 caption:"The last photo of the day" %}
{% endstack %}