curated digital literature hub for Layer Zero

scope

• books
• short stories
• poetry
• essays
• zines
• articles
• field manuals
• research papers

subject matter

• permacomputing
• left anarchism
• local organizing
• racial & disability justice
• gender self-determination

curation process

email me with a piece of content along with a brief description/synopsis/review in your own words. or you can add it yourself! ;3

publicity

for now at least, this will only be accessible from within the LZ LAN/tailnet. this is because:

• it is less likely to attract unwanted attention and/or get shut down due to copyright
• making everything free feels a bit icky, at least for stuff by indie authors
• it makes for an enticing perk of visiting the space.

perhaps down the road there could be a public and private component to it.

site sections

the site will be made of a few smaller components, with abridged previews or links to them on the main page.

calibre server

route: /catalogue

there will be a calibre server running on this machine that can be accessed by anyone on the LAN/tailnet. there will be a read-only frontend on the site that allows you to browse it and download stuff. similar to a bookstore: organized by genre, highly rated/recommended things prominently displayed within each.

mirrors of web articles and zines

route: /mirrors

• https://crimethinc.com/2022/12/15/producing-transdermal-estrogen-a-do-it-yourself-guide
• https://tmpout.sh/zine.html (https://github.com/tmpout/tmpout.github.io)
• https://www.sproutdistro.com/catalog/zines/organizing/fedizine
• https://www.sproutdistro.com/catalog/zines/organizing/how-to-squatted-dance-party
• https://fuckingtranswomen.org/

highly encourage donating to (or otherwise supporting) zine authors, with their links prominently displayed.

links to cool things on the web

route: /hyperlinks

stored as yaml: hyperlinks.yml -{unmarshal}-> go struct -{template}-> html

design

• cyberia.css
• ascii art wrapped in <pre/> blocks with alt-text for accessibility

name ideas

• xanadu (an homage to Project Xanadu, also referenced in SEL)
• library zero

ascii art

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