Welcome to Globspace, a collaborative web notebook edited by a small band of friends. Globspace is powered by the Octavo editor, and Orinoco.
Editing is not open to the public, but all of our notes are. We write about the website and why we made it, about technology and the projects that we're working on, and about our hobbies and enthusiasms such as typography and language.
You may want to start with what's changed here recently, or a list of all of the site pages.
We set up this site, which was backed by software tentatively called NextWiki. This used a file called changes.log, which we took some notes about.
We thought about a style guide for the site, and ornaments to use on pages, and then wrote a little guide to new editors of the wiki and a sandbox for them to play in. We started to document Octavo, the rich web editor that powers the site.
All of the editors are from an IRC channel called Swhack, so we wrote a small dictionary of some of the terms that we've invented there.
We also turned to some of the first general topics to cover on the site, including musical harmony, guitar chords, and a page of ideas for further articles.
We thought a subject page about music might be a good idea, and also expanded into non-tech and musical ideas, such as imagination and thought maps.
Some of these initial pages are just small, not much larger than stubs on Wikipedia, but notebooks often encompass everything from jotted ideas to grand essays.
We worked on what is now the Octavo issues page quite a bit, and developed Octavo itself. We upgraded the old backend, previously called NextWiki, into a new thing called Orinoco, based on a Changedir concept.
We started work on font revivals and made a subject page about typography. We decided to change the original style of the site itself. The first design used Helvetica and looked like a 1990s web specification. Then we moved to Lato, but decided that we liked Helvetica Neue better. To make the current design a reasonable grid layout, we used a lorem ipsum page. Continuing the wide range of article ideas, we put up pages of varying length on maps, and Kalusa.
We started a page for keyboard layouts, though that didn't go anywhere as of writing.
On the technology front, we took a stab at documenting an irc bot architecture, and writing about programming in general. We took our first foray into pony documentation with an article about fan anxiety, and generally maintained quite a few old pages too. We also made pages about HTML diff, Python, the filesystem, ffmpeg, CSS, and Markdown.
SOME MORE STUFF HAP’D WHOOOOAAA
Shiz hap'd.
Ongoing shizhaps.
Want to chat to us? Send comments to @globspace on twitter.