This is Globspace, a website edited by a small band of friends. These pages are edited using Octavo as a client side frontend, and a server side backend HTTP PUT handler and version control system combination called Orinoco.
We keep a style guide for the site.
Globspace was originally created in 2010 as a MediaWiki instance on a different website, as a private experiment. Some of those articles made it to the public web anyway, published in regular manner rather than as part of a wiki.
In 2012 came editable.js, which was some CoffeeScript for editing HTML pages in the browser. This wasn't used anywhere, and remained an experiment for many months. Then the idea came to create a wiki in Globspace style but with an editable.js derivative to edit it. That code became Octavo, and Globspace is the present site.
Another of the motivations behind Globspace was finding that the documentation of Gnik's Modified Pwyky, linked to from Computing Minimalism, gives a not found. Gnik used to host a wiki, but this had been removed from the web. This is a reasonably good example of what happened to personal wiki sites all over the web: they are no longer used. The blog won. But why should the blog have won? The wiki is better. Globspace stands up for personal wiki sites.
Another motivation was having a cloud-style site for storing notes. Okay, Globspace isn't hosted on a cloud platform, but the idea of having a place to jot notes online goes back to Pwyky. An added bonus is that the notes can be shared with the public.
There are many great things about a wiki, but one of the most important is that you can develop pages in stages. On a blog, you have to post a finished article. People don't usually publish their early drafts elsewhere. On a wiki, you can work on an article collaboratively, and in stages. It's a different mindset.
The name Globspace is an anagram of Blogspace, a wiki designed by Aaron Swartz in 2000.
The logo is a multiple character wildcard operator inside a circle. The actual logo is a manual combination of a Gill Sans asterisk and a Bitstream Vera Sans U+25CB WHITE CIRCLE, rendered in Inkscape. The wildcard operator represents glob syntax, and the circle represents the terrestrial globe—which is not only a comingling with glob, but also a reflection of the -space suffix.
The wildcard could also be thought of as a symbol-pun for a Kleene star (it's probably short for .*). Compare also the brilliant Klein Star, which I only learned about in 2012 but helped in making me continue to choose the proto-Globspace logo for the new Globspace site. The "surrounded by a circle" part also harks a little to the corporate philosophy behind the Toyota logo, and Dickinson's circumference and whatnot. Or perhaps a circle is just a circle!
Add this to your browser's search engines:
Globspace | glob | http://glob.inamidst.com/site/go#%s
<a><img></a> puts a border under the <img> because <a> is styled that way; but we want to make an exception for this particular case. Unfortunately, there is no way in CSS to select an <a> element with an <img> descendant! :parent would be an obvious selector additiona[href^=http] or some such/about, and use "Glob" as the site name more generally (as an abbreviation)a.img style for removing borders, probably as a local Octavo plugin/additionSee also Orinoco and Octavo notes.
Could make a site-notes or site-issues page for this.
<a href="ornaments">​​</a> (Hopefully fixed...)The server says: passplox.