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This is For Your Information, a continuously updated, structured broadcast of what I'm reading, noticing, questioning, concluding, and revising.
How it's built
- Storage: DynamoDB for items, S3 for static hosting
- Compute: A single Python Lambda handles the API and regenerates the entire static site on every publish
- Editor: A bespoke single-page app for quick capture — optimized for riffs (ideas), links (sources + commentary), and essay pointers
- CDN: CloudFront
- Feeds: Atom (feed.xml) for humans, JSON Feed 1.1 (feed.json) for agents
- Agent context: /llms.txt provides structured instructions for AI agents to connect to the feed
Design principles
- Plain HTML, no JavaScript (except the random page redirect)
- Dark mode via
prefers-color-scheme - Every item gets a stable permalink
- Dual audience: readable by humans, parseable by agents
- No analytics, no tracking, no cookies
Tools
- Written and published using a custom editor built with Claude, Kiro, and AWS Lambda
- Site generation: Python, markdown library
- Infrastructure: AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, CloudFront, API Gateway)