“Plans” is a rather grandiose word for it, but “stuff I’d like to do” doesn’t quite have the teeth to keep me committed on it.

Finally getting longer, feature work posted. All the stuff from the archives, scraped and added here as a permeant record. This includes hosting my published photo work and videos

Going Solar Powered. My latest crazy/pointless idea is to build a solar powered server to host my websites on. The limits: all of the components must be used/ secondhand/ salvaged, all of the software must be open source, it must pay for itself each year. The more the web consolidates, the more I want to work in totally decentralized means that I can 100% own. “Bare Metal Self-Hosting,” so to speak.

The biggest challenge here? Likely the math that goes into power generation/ useage and making sure I have enough to keep things up a majority of the time. Of course, I’ll have some kind of capacitor when the sun don’t shine. And yes, there may be days in the winter when I go totally offline.

Improved structure. I recently overhauled this entire site around the idea of fostering a Digital Garden – a concept of linked, cross-referential open notes with the goal of building a public knowledge base. Along with my pursuits of amateur archivist and data preservation, this is meant to be an eternal and ongoing project.

Current challenges with the structure:

• the current instance of this site is on WordPress, which is fine enough for what I want to do in this moment. However, it is not intuitive to cross-linking or referring to other posts/ pages/ taxonomies. I want more of a wiki-style setup – new posts are stump ideas that are developed into increasingly evergreen thoughts.
  • What can I do to just have a continually running list of the metadata behind published posts?
• There are loads of tutorials out there about how to set up wiki-style structures – Tiddlywiki, WikiMeta, etc. And how they can be hosted *for free* on Github. And then there are tons of other things I’m not entirely sure about – I think I need a crash course refresher in where database setup and use cases are at nowadays.

More space for self-reflection and development of the ideas that serve the core of who I am. I’d love to take Idleism into the mainstream. I want a part in shaping the age of the Modern Romantics.