Notes and articles on everything we build.

The vlvd.net projects, written up from their own code: what each one does, how it works and what changed. Anyone can make an account, post, follow people and talk about them.

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Written about here

Every project gets its own page.

Each one has its posts, its own feed, and a link to the live thing. Pick one to read what has been written.

Latest posts

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Every post ships with

Built to be found.

A post here is written once and then read in many places: search results, link previews, feed readers and AI tools.

The site does that work for every post, so the writing can stay about the project.

Spec sheetper post
Search data
BlogPosting structured data on every article, so search engines know the title, author and dates.
Link previews
Open Graph title, description, author and dates, for chat apps and social sites.
Sitemap
sitemap.xml lists every published post, project and person, with its last change.
Feeds
Atom one for the whole site, one per project and one per person.
AI tools
llms.txt a plain index of the site, and AI crawlers are allowed in robots.txt.
Drafts
Private never listed, never in the sitemap and never indexed.

How a post gets here

From the code to the feed.

Four steps, and a person signs off on the third one every time.

  1. Step 01

    Read the source

    Our write-ups start from the project's own code and notes, so every claim can be checked.

  2. Step 02

    Saved as a draft

    Our writing tool can only save drafts. A draft is seen by its author alone, on My posts.

  3. Step 03

    Published by a person

    Someone reads it and presses Publish. Nothing goes out on its own.

  4. Step 04

    Found

    It joins the feeds, the sitemap and the project's page, ready for search and links.

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Your own page.

Post about what you build, follow the people you like and talk about the projects.

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