⚹ URLminder

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A BeeminderA commitment device: set a numeric goal, draw a yellow brick road toward it on a graph, and pay real money if you fall off. The two goals riding on this repo, one on commit count and one on cumulative… integration that counts the words at any publicly accessible URL, normally used with Google Docs. Raw HTML inflates the count, but it's accurate with plain text, which is the reason /urlminder.txt exists as a route on this site, rather than pointing URLminder at a rendered HTML page.

The goal it drives is an Odometer type: the number can only go up, never down, matching the fact that /urlminder.txt only ever grows as notesThe first entry. This site exists for gitminder as the daily-commit driver for two Beeminder goals, and it leans on wiki-links ,like colour-theory to connect ideas as they accumulate, in the tradition of a digital garden more than a blog.[^1]… get written.