Back to Categories

Website

Notes about this website, its design, and development.

status: Finished

Status Indicator

The status indicator reflects the maturity of the content: • rough — Initial thoughts, unstructured • growing — Being actively developed • evergreen — Stable, well-developed content • withered — No longer being maintained This helps readers understand the completeness of the content.

·
certainty: certain

Confidence Rating

The confidence tag expresses how well-supported the content is, or how likely its overall ideas are right. This uses a scale from "impossible" to "certain", based on the Kesselman List of Estimative Words: 1. "certain" 2. "highly likely" 3. "likely" 4. "possible" 5. "unlikely" 6. "highly unlikely" 7. "remote" 8. "impossible" Even ideas that seem unlikely may be worth exploring if their potential impact is significant enough.

·
importance: 6/10

Importance Rating

The importance rating distinguishes between trivial topics and those which might change your life. Using a scale from 0-10, content is ranked based on its potential impact on: - the reader - the intended audience - the world at large For example, topics about fundamental research or transformative technologies would rank 9-10, while personal reflections or minor experiments might rank 0-1.

GraveyardGrowing2026.04.24

Every page and feature this site ever had and lost. Each one gets a headstone with the dates and the commit that buried it.

website · personal, websites, design

Magic URLs2025.07.01 - 2025.07.03

how I avoid deprecated urls with magic urls, which automatically redirect to the latest version of a page

website · tools, websites, archiving

Large File Storage2025.06.06

Implementation details of large file storage solutions for the website

website · methodology, tools, storage

About This WebsiteGrowing2025.06.03

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.

website · personal, websites, design