homepage

Welcome to the personal website of omz13: information is scattered across the slashes, but the ones that you should start with are the who and the why; apparently my philosophy is popular.

If you are expecting excitement, adventure, and really wild things, you have the wrong site.

vibe

This website has a retro vibe (from the year 198x) and looks like the output you’d find from an ancient impact or early laser printer. The information architecture is modeled on that from the very early days of the www (where the use of <dl> was de rigeur). However, all this is crafted by hand with love, lots of coffee, and has been thoughtfully implemented using modern technology. Achieving this is not as easy as it appears (because making simple is hard); the colophon details how this was done because apparently people want to know about the virtual glue and duct tape that hold it together. Do remember its best to never ask how sausages and websites are made (because it is messy).

aesthetics

For aesthetes, or people who just like tweaking settings, the controls at the top the page can be used to change how the site looks1. Think of “lpr” as a printer, so choose the technology you want; “med” as the paper media to use with it; “sch” can set the color scheme or follow what your system says. For accessibility, this site responds to increased contrast mode. If you eschew all visual nonsense, this site looks just great in a browser in reader mode or with css disabled.

slashes

The following is an index to the publicly available pages in the root; these are euphemistically known as “the slashes”2.

/contact
this page shows the ways that you can contact me; if logged in, more ways may appear
/colophon
this page details the more technical aspects of how this website is built
/ia
the information architecture that this site tries to follow
/lpt
life pro tips: meatspace hacks
/manifesto
the raison d’ĂȘtre for this website
/manual of me
my very tongue-in-cheek version of my manual-of-me.
/now
a “/now” page informs the reader about what the author is focused on at this point in their life. For more, see What is a “now page”?
/philosophy
this is my highly opinionated philosophy on life. TL;DR avoid assholes
/uses
the everyday things that I use
/who
everybody else will call this an “/about”, but to me that is more of a corporate thing, and this is a personal_ site, so my ego demands and my id_ agrees that it lives on /who instead

iff

If you identify yourself to this site, additional content may appear based on how much you are considered to be a friend or a foe3.

Click “iff” at the top of the page to initiate the identification ceremony. You can use IndieAuth4; alternates are planned.

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  1. These user preferences are persisted to local storage (not cookie storage) for your convenience. ↩︎

  2. A contemporaneous list slash pages that people provide has been curated by some dude at Slash Pages; if you have your own website and suffer from completionism and/or OCD you are urged not to implement everything listed because its not a competition. ↩︎

  3. Whether you have been identified and as friend (harmless, mostly harmless, frenemy, etc.) or foe (bad bot, etc.) primarily determines what additional content is made available. People who have flipped the bozo bit should beware of my capricious nature when it comes to clearing it and I am more than capable of holding a grudge for literally decades. ↩︎

  4. IndieAuth was fundamentally broken because, like everything coming from IndieWeb, it was predicated on the use of microformats and nobody outside of that cult can be bothered to use them (too much effort for too litte reward, plus the same could be achieved through other methods but, similarly, such pathways are closed for cultish philisophical over practical reasons). Curiously enough, in July 2024, IndieAuth dropped the need for microformats because pushback. ↩︎