Designing a personal hub that composts

The brief was simple to state and hard to hold: make the ongoing texture of my work legible as a byproduct of notes I'm already taking, not as a second job of "content."

Structural scarcity over feed-style abundance. The homepage shows a small, curated surface — a single sentence of current focus and three doors. Depth is one click away, never scrolled to.

The link-tree mechanic is the differentiator. A project, book, or course is a node. Reading progress, short posts, external threads, and eventually a long essay all hang off that node. The site visualises the engagement trail, not just the latest update. The live example is node:phorge itself.

Composting, not append-only. Short posts decay off the front after about a month unless they get promoted into an essay or linked into a node. The point is a living surface, not an archive that only grows.

The site should feel like warm paper meeting disciplined typography — a person publishing the texture of their thinking, not a startup pitching investors.

If this holds, publishing is just: edit an org file, save, run build, deploy.