How this site is organized
Why the writing and the projects are split into four subjects.
The writing and the projects on this site are split into four subjects: science, technology, art and philosophy. It isn't a statement about me, it's just the shape the archive took after seven years.
The figure on the home page is a K₄, the complete graph on four vertices: four nodes, six edges, each node connected to all the others. It's there because four separate columns would be a lie - what I learn in one subject almost always changes what I do in the others.
- science: method, measurement, what can be verified
- technology: code, architecture, the things I build
- art: form, writing, the side that is not technical
- philosophy: ideas, ethics, the questions with no technical answer
The graph isn't an illustration. Each node holds a number, each edge conducts. Feeding one node makes the other three rise afterwards, after the transit time. Cutting a link makes both sides fall - not because someone programmed a sadness animation, but because the node now receives from two neighbors instead of three, and the math doesn't add up.
Each node's number rises with reading, not with clicking: content from that subject visible for twenty continuous seconds, with the tab in the foreground. A scoreboard that rises with clicks measures clicks. That number stays in your browser and never leaves it.
This page was never locked: it has always been on the site, answering anyone who typed the address. The only thing that changes when all four fill up is the path - the signature in the footer starts pointing here.