brennan.w10.site

ABOUT

This site is a plain-text mirror of brennan.day, Brennan Kenneth Brown's independent publication. Every post here is a plain text conversion of his original writing.

Where to read this site

The mirror is hosted for free on Web 1.0 Hosting, a smallweb static host that keeps sites reachable from retro computers, old operating systems, palmtops, and cellphones. It's served over both HTTP and HTTPS, on IPv4 and IPv6, at any of these addresses:

Note: The ~brennan addresses render the home page, but internal links here are root-relative, so use a subdomain for browsing.

Who's writing this?

Brennan Kenneth Brown (he/they) is Queer, Red River Metis, and works as an independent author and web developer based in Mohkinstsis (Calgary, Alberta), Treaty 7 territory.

He's the founder of Berry House, doing pro bono and accessible JAMstack web development. He's the webmaster of Folk Zone, a self-hosted IndieWeb experiment, and fanfiction.lol, a fork of Archive of Our Own. He also founded Write Club, a Calgary creative collective for writers that grew to 100+ members over three years.

He's been publishing online since 2015 and has nine independently published books. He holds a BA in English (Honours), with minors in Creative Writing and Religious Studies, from Mount Royal University.

His writing covers the craft of writing itself, literary and cultural criticism, Indigenous issues, culture, religion, science, and the independent web.

There is no JavaScript, no images, no external requests, and no colour on this site. It is designed for Lynx, w3m, screen readers, and older hardware.

Images are not mirrored. Tags are plain text, not links, and there are no tag pages.

For a different viewing experience, visit brennan.day. To know more about how this mirror was put together, read the colophon below.

Support a friend of the small web!

Denys, who runs the ELPiS Web 1.0 zine, has been diagnosed with cancer. He is currently living in Ukraine and does not have funds for medication beyond painkillers. If this theme or the smallweb has given you anything, please consider donating or sharing (original post):

Colophon

This site is built with v3 of 11ty, and Nunjucks templates, and from Markdown files using a small Python script converting each post on brennan.day into plain-text.

Post bodies are rendered with markdown-it with custom rules: heading levels get a hidden # marker, images become [image: alt text] and link to the image on brennan.day, and Markdown syntax is rendered literally.

The site is ASCII. Post bodies keep non-ASCII letters (accents, other scripts, emoji, etc.).

Converting the posts

The conversion script keeps only title, date, tags, summary, and collection from each post's YAML front matter. Slugs are computed from the post title with @sindresorhus/slugify,

The script also rewrites raw HTML within posts, eg. <figure><img></figure> blocks become plain Markdown images, <iframe> embeds become [embedded video] links, etc.

Word counts are computed with elements not counted like fenced code blocks, link targets, and leftover HTML tags to make the count accurate.

The Atom feed renders each post through markdown-it differently, with the literal Markdown syntax disabled so it isn't displayed in feed readers.

There is one inlined stylesheet in the <head> of each page that's <1.5 KB. There is no JavaScript or images anywhere on this site. There are no external requests. No fonts, no analytics, no third-party anything.

The typeface is monospace. It is the fixed-width font your browser, terminal, or screen reader provides.

The mirror is also available via Netlify at plaintext.brennan.day.

The original posts can be viewed on brennan.day. Each post on this mirror links to the canonical URL, and the Atom feed has the 50 most recent posts to ensure its size is <5MB.

This site was inspired by Starbreaker, who publishes literal .txt mirrors of his webpages.