Marginalia · working index
Everything, one click away
Page names have changed a few times. This is the stable door — bookmark it rather than any individual URL.
On a phone: the dev server binds to the LAN, so this index is reachable at the Network address astro dev prints — not theLocal one, which means the phone itself. Worth doing: iOS has a single engine, and a narrowed desktop window cannot stand in for it.
Texts
- The End of the World
0 active annotations
- The Itch
0 active annotations · tutoring use only
- The Entangled Bank
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- What Is Life? — Chapter 7 and Epilogue
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- Politics and the English Language
0 active annotations · tutoring use only
- Why Read the Classics?
0 active annotations · tutoring use only
- Ode on a Grecian Urn
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- Funes, the Memorious
0 active annotations · tutoring use only
- The Garden of Forking Paths
0 active annotations · tutoring use only
- The Library of Babel
0 active annotations · tutoring use only
- Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
0 active annotations · tutoring use only
- The Naked Face
16 active annotations · tutoring use only
- The Madeleine
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- Letter from Birmingham Jail
0 active annotations · tutoring use only
- Science as a Vocation
0 active annotations · tutoring use only
- The Abyss
0 active annotations · tutoring use only
- Ozymandias
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- The Mind-Reader
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- Fire and Ice
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- What Is It Like to Be a Bat?
0 active annotations · tutoring use only
- The Route to Normal Science
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- How Should One Read a Book?
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- Of Our Spiritual Strivings
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- Cook Ding
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Documents
- R13 · The Curriculum Map
The curriculum as a single document — four arcs, six threads, plates as masks rather than images, and the arcs told apart by printer’s screen instead of hue. Where Newsreader 700 and sentence-case headings were chosen. Standalone by design: it is not in the site navigation and does not share the reading site’s CSS. Carries its own token snapshot, so it will not drift as the design system moves.
Lab
- Motion Lab
Five dial settings for every motion primitive. Column 03 “Warm” is ratified and live in tokens.css.
- Band diagrams
The eight page geometries as bare grids, with the knobs listed.
- Layout examples
The same eight, with prose, plates and apparatus in them. Start here.
- Annotation torture test
21 annotations, colliding anchors, an escaping leader. The engine under load.
- Leaders across bands
Connectors crossing band boundaries, including one running back upward two bands.
- Plate test
The commissioned plates at real size: clean portrait with engine-drawn musculature, and the 2:1 expression strip in a text column.
- Footnotes
The source’s own apparatus — author’s, editor’s and translator’s notes as popovers at every width. Two real cases from the Library of Babel. Placed by measurement, not CSS anchor positioning, so it behaves the same on iOS as on Chrome.
- Resize behaviour
No apparatus of its own — the procedure for testing rail placement during a window drag, and the write-up of the skitter fixed 6 Aug. Test on the torture page; read the reasoning here.
- Overflow finder
Names whatever is wider than the screen. Horizontal overflow shows up as a blank gutter, uncentrable pinch-zoom and a wandering column — three complaints, one cause. Includes a bookmarklet, since iOS Safari has no reachable console.
Authoring
- Keystatic
Edit texts and annotations. Local only — runs while
npm run devis up.