homepage!omz13

tl;dr This is one of those weird personal websites. Come for the retro-skeuomorphic aesthetic, adjust the settings, then be amazed that it is actually accessible (because inclusion is not a nine-letter word). It is a little dada. A bit situational. Somewhat subversive. And very intentional. Do not expect 8th grade reading level: big words; many syllables; close reading mandatory. Enjoy the text, but discover that the footnotes are where the real action is. May contain nuts.

Vous êtes sur l’un de ces sites personnels bizarres. Venez pour l’esthétique rétro-squeuomorphe, ajustez les paramètres, puis laissez-vous surprendre par son accessibilité réelle (car l’inclusion n’est pas un vain mot). C’est un peu dada. Un brin situationniste. Quelque peu subversif. Et hautement intentionnel. Ne vous attendez pas à un niveau de lecture de fin de collège : grands mots ; syllabes complexes ; lecture attentive obligatoire. Peut contenir des traces de folie (et de fruits à coque)

ここはいわゆる「奇妙な個人サイト」の一つだ。レトロ・スケュオモーフィックな美学に惹かれて立ち寄り、好みに合わせて設定を弄り、そしてこれが真にアクセシブル（包括性/Inclusionという言葉は形骸化した標語ではないのだから）である事実に驚嘆してほしい。本作は、いささかダダであり、ややシチュアシオニスト的であり、いくぶん破壊的。そして極めて意図的（インテンショナル）だ。義務教育レベルの平易な文章を期待してはいけない。難解な語彙、重なる音節、精密な読解が必須となる。※本品には「狂気（ナッツ）」が含まれている可能性があります

Welcome to the personal website of omz13, a hoopy really together guy dude who thinks in lines and curves (visual design), mangles words (technical writer), and can wrangle bits and bytes (software engineer). Irony and understatement come with the territory; hyperbole and hyper-realism too; the utter disdain for what has happened to the internet and the web, genuine. Being a full-spectrum frood really amazingly together guy who can battle these diverse facets into something not only nice but coherent (system architect), and who still knows where his towel is, omz13 is clearly a man to be reckoned with. More information about him can be found in who and now and manifesto.

And now, some somethings for the spectator (that would be you) to consider.

expectations

You want some excitement, adventure, and really wild things? You have the wrong place. There is no Silicon Valley “optimism” here. Instead, Northern European “directness”. No smoothly written text that has been edited, if not wholly written, by a LLM. Instead, dense information written by somebody who knows how to throw some word together in a manner that makes sense; irony and understatement come with the territory, with the occasional fact thrown in for good measure. Do not expect 8th grade reading level, even if the humor might be at that level. Instead, big words, many syllables, may contain nuts. Some people would even suggest that the effect is like having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick1, but that is because those people have been feasting on poor quality slop and they wouldn’t know a good thing if it slapped them in the face.

This is the place where you might learn something new. Or not. YMMV. This site is SFW.

If you find any typos, this is not because it has been written by an LLM trying to mimic a human, but because the human behind the keyboard here occasionally looses a battle with the spellchecker. If you don’t know what a spellchecker is, we kindly suggest you go find a dictionary. Dammit, fat-fingers! /g/looses/loses.

why

It is my personal presence in webspace. A place where experiments are performed with http, html, css, and all the other inglorious things out there. It is a little dada. A bit situational. Somewhat subversive. And very intentional. It has been built with a little spite. Because quality. Craftsmanship. And quiet competence over noisy performance.

The web has turned into a homogenized positivity-infused SEO-driven bloated slop pile. This is the antithesis. It is fully accessible and better engineered than the garbage that some megacorps consider good. Mediocre is not tolerated.

Enjoy!

And when things break, normality will be restored as soon as possible.

If anything offends, please kindly get off the planet, immediately.

aesthetic

This website has a novel retro-skeuomorphic aesthetic resembling the output you’d find from a 1980s impact or laser printer; furthermore, information is structured and presented in a way that very much resembles the very early days of the world wide web (where was not only de rigeur but content negotiation was a thing2). If skeuomorphic design is not to your taste, the controls at the top of the page can be used to change how it looks3. Sure, there is the usual light/dark mode, and also contrast, but theme and media controls are the real power move. If you eschew any visual nonsense, this site looks great in a browser using reader mode or with disabled css. Despite appearances, this site takes accessibility seriously and conforms to WCAG 2.2 Level AA as a minimum, with Level AAA where feasible. For more information see accessibility.

navigation

This site offers the usual pages for you, dear interlocutor, to explore; the “nav” the top is a good place to look, and perennial favorite that is meta 4 is a good place to start (because it is literally the metadata for this site and the person behind it).

iff

If you identify yourself (via login) using IndieAuth or whatever, additional content may appear based on an IFF-like state. IFF is traditionally a binary decision, but there is more nuance here: think of it more of a continuum from friend-ly (harmless, mostly harmless, frenemy, etc.) to foe-ish (bad bot, bozo5) and where you fall within that continuum determines what compartmentalized things you can access.

how

This site is crafted by hand with love, lots of coffee, and has been thoughtfully and intentionally implemented as a “bespoke platform for one”6 using contemporary practice and 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. It is best to never ask how sausages and websites are made (answer: it involves a lot of mess that any sane person would do their best to avoid).

conneg

For those into such things, content negotiation is supported7. IYKYK.

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This is a quote from The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Like a lot of Douglas Adams’s writing, it has been quite prophetic. ↩︎

It is at this point that some people (you know who you are) will doubt the veracity of these words. Go check with TimBL if you don’t believe me. ↩︎

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

The meta pages are at the root of a site. The root folder in Unix starts with a “slash” character, so these pages are also known as the “slash” pages by the cognoscenti. Anybody familiar with UK or Australian slang will be giggling because “slash” means something entirely different there. ↩︎

People who have their Bozo Bit set should beware that I am more than capable of holding a grudge for decades, and mea maxima culpa might not cut it. ↩︎

This is misleading, in the nicest possible way, and it all depends on how you define “one”. Is it really just a folly for 1 person, or is it 1 node in network? Given that omz13 is a Real Programmer, what are the chances that this is one something for utility and agency, engineered for performance, safety, accessibility, and usability. No quiche. No JSON. gRPC FTW. ↩︎

Content Negotiation (conneg) is a wonderfully versatile method that has been woefully underutilized. If you think of user agents accessing a server, it makes absolute sense. If you think of Browsers asking a server for only HTML because they are obsessed with the presentation layer instead of the document/data layer, it is clear where the blame lies. There is also a small amount of delight in knowing that using conneg gets under the skin of some online communities, and I am more than fine with that. ↩︎