Graveyard
Blog Post: website
Every page and feature this site ever had and lost. Each one gets a headstone with the dates and the commit that buried it.
Harmful
Blog Post: technology
Software, practices, and technologies I consider harmful.
A discourse on egoism
Essay: philosophy
a conversation on the morality of selfishness
BFI Sight & Sound 250
Blog Post: film
the top 250 greatest films of all time published by sight & sound magazine of the british film institute
Film Study as Background Noise
Blog Post: film
a thought on studying pre-seen films passively as background noise
I Learned to Lie by Listening to Clocks (villanelle)
Essay: literature
A villanelle exploring the relationship between time and perception.
Marie Taglioni, the First to Float
Essay: culture
A look at Marie Taglioni's groundbreaking role in dance and performance art.
Magic URLs
Blog Post: website
how I avoid deprecated urls with magic urls, which automatically redirect to the latest version of a page
Automated URL Archiving
Blog Post: technology
how I set up automated archiving of URLs using the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine and other tools
Reply to Mephisto
Essay: philosophy
the devil you don’t know is only a smoke screen for the devil you do
Math I Ought to Know
Blog Post: science
a list of textbooks, workbooks, and some notes on the math you ought to know
Large File Storage
Blog Post: website
Implementation details of large file storage solutions for the website
Random Reading Lists
Blog Post: culture
a list of wishlists, goodreads profiles, and other reading lists I have found snooping around the internet
About Kris
Blog Post: on-myself
Who am I online & what have I done? Contact information; sites I use; computers and software tools; things I’ve worked on; psychological profiles
About This Website
Blog Post: website
Meta page describing krisyotam.com site ideals of stable long-term essays which improve over time; idea sources and writing methodology; metadata definitions; copyright license.
Uses This
Blog Post: on-myself
A detailed overview of my hardware, software, and tools I use daily for work and personal projects.