metanohi/site/about/index.org

#+title: About metanohi
#+summary: A short description of what metanohi is
#+license: wtfpl
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* About metanohi

This is metanohi, the personal website of [[./niels][Niels G. W. Serup]].


** Copying

Essentially, if you use something from metanohi, please attribute Niels
G. W. Serup and metanohi (unless it's not by Niels, which is rare).

In general, text, images, code and any other type of work on metanohi are
available under the [[http://www.wtfpl.net/][Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License (WTFPL)]] for the
fun of it; read more about this [[/writings/licensing][here]] if you so care.  There may be other cases.
The status of a page can be seen in the bottom in a metadata box.  If no license
is specified in the box, it's either because it's unnecessary to have a license
for that page (for example if it just an index page), or it's because I forgot
to apply one to the page, or it's because I don't care.


** Source code

metanohi is run by the [[/projects/mege/][mege]] HTML generator.  If you want to use it for a new
website (I REALLY REALLY wouldn't), you may wish to use metanohi as a template.

Get the main site:
: $ git clone git://metanohi.name/metanohi-metanohi

Get the subsites (messy):
: $ git clone git://metanohi.name/metanohi-meta


** SSL/TLS

You can access metanohi from HTTPS.  metanohi uses a [[http://cacert.org][CAcert]] (or is it a
self-signed certificate now?  I forget).  To make your browser automatically
accept CAcerts, follow the instructions on [[https://wiki.cacert.org/FAQ/BrowserClients][CAcerts wiki]]; it doesn't take long.
At some point it might get a LetsEncrypt certificate.


** History

metanohi was created in 2009 as a spinoff of earlier projects with equally
undefined purposes.  Back then the website was at metanohi./org/ instead of
metanohi./name/.

*Note:* While most of the content from the old metanohi has been ported to this
improved version, the modification times have not been saved. This is why old
projects from 2009 and 2010 appear to have been created in July or August, 2011.

*** Choice of name

There are several reasons for the choice of "metanohi":

 + It's unique
 + It's simple
 + It has the meta prefix, which automatically transforms anything into
   something cool
 + "metanohi", or at least part of "metanohi", has meanings in some languages

*** Screenshots of the old metanohi

Click to go to fullsize image.

#&img;url=img/scr1.png,width=300,float=left,noclear,medlink,caption=Start page
#&img;url=img/scr2.png,width=300,float=left,noclear,medlink,caption=Projects page
#&img;url=img/scr3.png,width=300,float=left,noclear,medlink,caption=CSS fun
#&clear


** Language

metanohi is generally only available in English.  A few pages are in Danish.


** Miscellaneous

metanohi is mostly XHTML 1.1 and CSS 2 valid. Currently, metanohi.name pages
are served as text/html and not as application/xml+xhtml (as they should). This
might get fixed (it is extremely easy to fix, but if fixed, some things
depending on external JavaScript which depends on non-XHTML, like the FSF
widget on the propaganda page, might cease to work).

[[./links][Propaganda]]

Should I go to HTML 5?  I don't really care.