The new cliophate.wtf is here

It’s done. After way too many hours of bothering Manu, cliophate.wtf has a new coat of paint.

It’s more than just a visual refresh. It’s a rethinking of how I want this place to feel, work, and grow.

What changed?

• A proper split between essays and notes:
  Essays are the longform, polished stuff — researched, written over several days, probably rewritten more than once. Notes are everything else: thoughts, fragments, observations, links, the raw stuff. You’ll see both in the same feed, but they now look and feel different. There’s a custom RSS feed for posts-only, notes-only, and everything combined.

• A cleaner homepage:
  The homepage is now a straight feed of content, so you know what a post is about as you scroll. Pagination at the bottom, archive in the nav, and a dedicated archive for one of the four topics I write about.

• A little color:
  A new light theme, new typography (Literata and Satoshi), and some changes to how different content looks now.

• And some more changes:
  I’m launching a newsletter called Thinking Out Loud, a companion to this website. Manuel also updated the Reading page — every book now has its own sub-page, where you’ll find my highlights and notes (going forward, I admit I’m a bit too lazy to go through all the old stuff).

Some notes by Manu on what changed in the background for all my tech-nerds:

The site still runs on Kirby—because we all love Kirby—but everything has been re-coded from scratch. Notes are no longer posts with a category slapped on them but are their own unique entity with dedicated design and post type. Books also now have a dedicated page. The content is a lot more modular and better organised on the backend side which will make expanding and adding new features in the future a lot easier.

Why now?

Because I outlived the old site. It was originally a theme done by Manuel, that we tried to hack into something else, but he decided a rewrite was in order.

This relaunch also kicks off a new rhythm: more regular posts, more unfinished thoughts, more writing. I’m treating cliophate.wtf as a lab — for ideas, for writing, for projects I haven’t fully figured out yet. I quite like the new Notes feature.

The main question I try to answer on these pages is what makes a good life. And I’m building it around four things: health, clarity, creativity, and play.

You’re welcome to watch, join, steal, or ignore.

What’s next?

I’ll be posting weekly. Some essays, some notes, some experiments.

Again, there’s a newsletter if you want to follow along. There are RSS feeds for all content, just posts, just notes, and just the reading updates.

There is also a new Ko-Fi link, in case you want to support my writing.

And soon maybe more. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

Thanks for reading.