Here’s where I describe this personal site’s ethos — what I’m trying to get across, what I don’t want to cover, what I hope someone might get from the architecture and system, etc.

I write an ethos statement for most projects I work on.

Format:

• Strong format for authorative posts?
• Listening to… ?
• Lately been… ?

Trust:

• Consistently honest, my opinion kind of stuff
• Not trying to keep people here, so _blank isn’t useful
• Footnotes
• Fully available on RSS

Voice / Tone:

• Doesn’t pretend to know everything
• More interested in the questions
• Not fucking tryhard like almost everything on substack

Technologically:

• Easy for people to consume and me to create
• Extra features for people like tl;dr and %completed and link to top, etc.?
• Working long term (ie some stupid upgrade doesn’t break it all)
• An investment into the markdown and data, knowing we’ll likely have to abandon ship when the above fails
• Fits into indieweb and small web standards like
• Proudly not connected to any specific ecosystem

Visual:

• Will I be able to let go of the stupid things I think get in the way?
• Should I have a theme or brand or ??

Sources & Inspiration:

• https://anhvn.com/meta/ethos/