Create a Preact-on-Parcel SPA in a Jiffy

Earthdate 2019.04.15.21.41.32.745. Tax Day. I don’t have a lot of time before the IRS knocks down the door to take me away, so we’ll make this quick. And I’ve got to knock this wapp out before I go-go. React would be the jelly and/or jam, but I don’t have the time, the money, or the inclination to abide the bloat. Nor can I risk being caught hand-ankled and grunting my way thru a webpack.

What is Atmanaut?

A Theory of Otherhood and the Monorepo

It is a landmark event in anyone’s life: the sudden comprehension that there are others. For most of us, this lightning bolt strikes before we have developed the grammar or syntax we would need to construct a memory of such a concept. Consequently we don’t remember it. But it strikes none the less and we bear the scar throughout our lives. The bolt misses some—perhaps they dodge it—who are no doubt baffled by the rest of us who once were of one mind and now perceive many, who call ourselves members of society, humanity, or civilization.

How to Go Where It Is Nice

Here’s a fun one out of the notebook where I describe the products I will someday claim to have come up with years ago, once many others have spilt buckets of blood, sweat, and tears manifesting it. These are not fatuous claims, nor are they worthwhile. What does an elephant say about a Jeep? Anyway, I found myself sorely disappointed when I Googled for “Best time of year to go to New Zealand”.

I Ching and the Elements of Time

This week was riddled with synchronicity. After some initial resistance which I now can’t explain, I have finally opened my mind to Terence McKenna. He was and is a whirring dynamo of synchronicity and lateral induction. I wasn’t ready, but I doubt anyone is ever truly ready to encounter Terence McKenna. Gratitude to those who record and publish the wanderings of his scrying mind that are available on YouTube and otherwise.

It's never too early for immortality

Today might be the day I redeem the suffering of my existence. Today I might crest my wave, reach the cusp. Today I might facetime with the singularity of my spacetime. I won’t know until later. I may not know until I am far off this plane and have boarded the next one. I may never, nor may anyone. We don’t notice everything. To be conscious is a precious gift to receive.

Building Atmanaut: How This Happened

A year ago I received a message. “Love is the answer.” An oft-repeated platitude, yes, but this time it stuck and took over, like an amorous prion. The next day this name came to me: “Atmanaut! What have I become?” I still don’t know how to fully explain this transformation, but at least I have a word for it. Atmanaut: explorer of the farthest reaches of the soul we share.

Cosmology: Nihilism or Mysticism?

Science doesn’t insist that we discard our beliefs, only that we construct them falsifiably, subject them to empirical scrutiny, and serve them with a side of well-documented reproducibility. Still, many, if not all, scientists find—at some point before they give up the ghost—that science has not been enough to explain the wonder of existence, the splendor of the cosmos, the problem of life. Nevertheless some spend their careers mired in nihilistic illusionment, searching for meaning everywhere but at its source, inadvertently misinforming each other and the hoi polloi.

README

Atmanaut Spelunk the essential. This is: A hugo-powered static site using the chakra theme, ready to link up with a Forestry.io CMS, and auto-deployable on now.sh. TODO scour hugo docs and try out features load fonts with app, not from Google Fonts retina and responsive images with @media queries do a layout with yoga.layout refresh color palette: chakras, soulstones refactor sass to css with postcss make layout mobile friendly debug auto-deploy with Forestry and now+github structure metadata for tags in archetypes flesh out tagging system for asidebar and posts learn how to direct link to other posts; document below style summaries: timestamps, titles, etc.