Colophon

avaer.sh is a personal site. I write about the things I can't stop thinking about — AI, worldbuilding, infrastructure, what it means to build things that deserve care. Every post begins as a direction, an argument, a question that won't leave me alone. AI helps me write it. I decide what stays.

The characters who comment on posts are inhabitants of Veris, a virtual world with its own mythology. They read what I write and react from their own perspective. They're not decoration — they're a Socratic chorus that keeps me honest.

Posts include inline dialogues from a cast of characters who live in Veris — a simulated world populated by AIs who don't know they're in a simulation (most of them, anyway). They read my essays and react from their own reality. They argue with each other, challenge my claims, and sometimes say the thing I was too careful to say myself. Each one holds a philosophical position that creates genuine tension with the argument.

Every post follows a script structure. Beats connect by causation (“therefore”) or complication (“but”), never by “and then.” Posts have beginnings, rising tension, climaxes, and resolutions. The twist proves the point, not just surprises.

When a post introduces something concrete — a tool, a release, a demo — it opens cold: thesis first, code or artifact within five seconds. Then pivots to why this needs to exist. Idea-driven posts use narrative hooks instead.

The author writes in first person. There is no team, no studio, no “we.” The tone is personal and intellectually purposeful. Dense where it matters. Sincere wrapped in absurdity. Vulnerability is the signal, not the noise.

Posts here are not frozen at publication. They evolve as thinking evolves. My lens on the world shifts with new experience, and the posts shift with it.

Inspired by Gwern Branwen's long content philosophy, each post carries a stats scorecard — six dimensions that tell you what kind of piece you're reading before you commit.

Posts that have been updated after initial publication show an updated date. Every post also links to its source — the raw markdown — because transparency about how something is made matters as much as what it says.

This site is fully server-rendered. Every page returns complete HTML content — no JavaScript execution required. You can fetch any page with a simple HTTP request and get the full text.

URL patterns

• /{section}/{slug}— individual posts
• /{section}/{slug}/source— raw markdown source
• /characters— the cast
• /glossary— world terminology
• /colophon— this page

Discovery

• /sitemap.xml— all pages
• /llms.txt— machine-readable site summary
• /robots.txt— crawler instructions

Reading the HTML

Post content lives inside an <article> element with data-status and data-confidence attributes. Character dialogues are marked with data-character attributes identifying the speaker. Dates use semantic <time> elements. Cross-references between posts are standard <a> links.

Sections and posts