Colophon: how this site is built

A methodology about extraction should not itself be extractive — of attention, of data, or of energy. The site's construction is part of its argument.

Low-watt by design

• Static HTML, generated once. Every page is a plain file produced by a ~150-line build script. No server-side rendering, no client-side framework, no hydration — the energy cost of a page view is the transfer of a few kilobytes.
• One stylesheet, no web fonts. Type is set in your operating system's own fonts (system-ui), which cost zero bytes to deliver and render in your device's native rendering path.
• No images. The favicon is a 200-byte inline SVG. Everything else is text — which is also what makes the site fully translatable, searchable, and screen-reader-native.
• Dark mode honours your OS setting via prefers-color-scheme — no toggle script, no preference cookie, and on OLED panels the dark palette draws measurably less power.
• JavaScript only where it is the content. One 6 KB script powers the three interactive tools, loaded only on the two pages that use them. Every other page ships zero JavaScript, and the tool pages degrade to documented manual methods without it.
• Typical page weight: under 20 KB — roughly one-hundredth of the median webpage. Low weight is low watt, and it is also access: this site works on slow connections, old devices, and metered data.

No tracking, no extraction

There are no analytics, no cookies, no fingerprinting, no third-party requests of any kind. The tools run entirely in your browser; nothing you paste is transmitted, logged, or trained on. This is Refusal 3 and Refusal 4 applied to web architecture: no unconsented data, and no engagement optimisation — there is nothing here that measures your engagement at all.

Form as argument

The Artistic Perception lens asks what modes of attention a communication invites or forecloses. Applied to this site: a single readable column, no animation, no infinite anything, and chapter-length pages invite the slow, sequential, dwelling attention the material asks for. The wiki structure — every concept addressable, densely cross-linked, with a glossary as an alternate entrance — invites the second mode the material rewards: non-linear return visits. What the design forecloses, deliberately, is grazing.

Accessibility

Semantic HTML throughout (real headings, real lists, real tables with headers, nav/main/landmark structure), visible focus, aria-current navigation state, live-region outputs on the interactive tools, honoured prefers-color-scheme, and no content that requires JavaScript, a pointer, or colour perception. The print stylesheet strips chrome so any page prints as a clean document. Accessibility gaps are reportable findings like any other omission.

Versioned in public

Content is git-backed; every change to every page — including the stance file and the limitations ledger — is a public, attributable commit. A methodology that requires public version history of audits keeps its own history the same way.

Licence

All content: CC BY-SA 4.0. Fork freely, share alike, attribute the lineage — the Invitation is the licence's purpose stated in prose.