A library, not a feed

Most writing about technology is published on blogs that are organised by date. That ordering is chronological, not intellectual: it tells you when something was written and nothing about whether it is still believed. This is an attempt to keep a body of thinking in a shape that survives revision.

There are three kinds of content, and they are deliberately different. Papers are long arguments that have been thought through properly. Ideas are shorter: a question, a suspicion, a position that is still being tested. Research notes are working material — reading notes, comparisons, summaries of standards — kept close to the papers that rely on them.

Everything is classified by topics and finer-grained tags , and connected to related work through declared relations. Those relations are the part that matters: a paper is only as good as the ideas and evidence it sits between.

Every piece of content is a file in a Git repository. There is no database, no authoring interface beyond a text editor, and no content that exists only on a server. The site is compiled to static HTML and served by Nginx behind Docker; the only thing that runs in a visitor’s browser is the search interface, the diagram renderer, and the graph.

Relations between documents are declared once, in frontmatter, and resolved at build time. A relation that points at something that no longer exists disappears quietly rather than producing a broken link. The graph and the “referenced by” lists are two views of that same resolution.

ThePocket006 works on enterprise architecture, cloud and security — mostly on the problem of making large information systems simpler than they naturally want to be. The writing here is personal: it is not a company position, it is not a product, and it is often the case that a piece is published before the argument is settled.

Papers carrying a Draft or Exploring status are honest about that. Nothing published here is finished in the sense that it will never change; the last updated date is on every page for exactly this reason.