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Standards — the grammar underneath

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 11:15:00 +0000

A language isn’t beautiful because every sentence is beautiful; it’s useful because the grammar underneath is agreed on. The standards shelf is flove’s grammar — the rules the whole workshop quietly agrees to so that a human and a machine can build together in the same voice, on the same ground, without having to re-decide everything twice. It’s the least glamorous shelf and the one that makes every other shelf possible.

The notes shelf — a drawer, not a filing cabinet

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 11:00:00 +0000

Some rooms have filing cabinets: everything indexed, everything in its place, alphabetical, perfect, and — let’s be honest — a little dead. Other rooms have a drawer. You throw things in it while you’re working, pull them out when you need them, and every so often the drawer gives you back something you’d forgotten you had. The notes shelf is flove’s drawer.

What’s on it

The notes shelf holds the short things from the workbench: a small fix that took an hour, a decision that deserves a sentence of remembering, a thought that’s not a whole essay yet. It’s where the earliest voices of the blog actually arrived — the welcome note and the first hello that told you what flove believes: relate, don’t extract. Those were notes before the shelf had a name, and they still live here.

Infrastructure — how flove ships

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 10:45:00 +0000

Nobody talks about plumbing until it leaks. That’s the compliment flove pays its infrastructure: it’s the least poetic part of the project, and the one everything else stands on. This shelf is where the plumbing gets explained — how flove runs, how it gets published, and what keeps it from falling over when the network drops.

What’s on it

At the center is a self-hosted Gitea server, running in Docker on a machine in the same house that builds flove, holding eight repositories. It’s the wall of the workshop: private source lives behind it, and only what’s meant to be public walks out.

The apps shelf — state of the collection

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 10:15:00 +0000

A shop window is honest about one thing: it shows what’s there. The apps shelf is flove’s window — roughly eighty small applications, each one a single HTML file that you can read in your browser and take home with you. No frameworks, no login, no account. Just the work, out in the open.

This post is the shelf’s opening statement: what’s on it, how it got here, and what’s still on the bench.

Git, agents, and the long way here

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 10:00:00 +0000

Every workshop needs a wall to hang things on. For a long time flove built its walls out of trust in other people’s platforms — code in someone’s cloud, notes in someone’s app, publishing through someone else’s pipeline. The internet taught us that works until it doesn’t. This post is the story of flove growing its own walls: a little server that keeps the work, and a pair of hands — one human, one machine — that have been learning to build together on the other side of them.