About Richard Rathe's Reflections

How many goodly ideas are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in’t! (with apologies to the Bard)

What Is This?

I started this site in 2004 as my journal of ideas—a place to catch glimpses of what I’d been thinking about over the years. It was a single HTML page that I edited directly. In late 2006 I rebuilt the site from the ground up using XHTML and CSS. In late 2008 I again rebuilt the site as a WordPress instance. In 2010 I created a new theme I called Photogrey and hooked the site up to my Twitter feed. In 2022 I left Twitter and added a link to Mastodon.

My main criticism of Wordpress was feature bloat. It has become a huge program with many dependences. The code it generates is non-standard and very hard to debug. As of this writing there is a fight going on between WP factions that I do not want to deal with.

In 2024 I decided to go in a different direction—the results of which are now before you.

Welcome to BLIS!

Design Goals

I generate articles using KIST markup, but this is not required.

Author

Richard Rathe

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How Was It Made?


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