This directory is the repository-only preservation layer for Alan Dipert's
software, writing, accounts, and recorded technical work. Nothing below it is
copied into the generated website. Curated public descriptions and selected
safe assets live under md/.
| Directory | Contents | Public treatment |
|---|---|---|
aol-hometown/ |
Evidence and search records for the neutronbum and completelycrazy AOL identities |
Identity history is summarized; raw material stays here |
forums/ |
Complete recoverable wooby activity from Hacker News, Slashdot, and Halfbakery, with context and WARCs |
Archive-only |
open-source/ |
GitHub inventory, gists, canonical upstreams, contribution evidence, and complete Git bundles | A role-aware selection appears on OpenSource |
problemscan/ |
Original Planet Source Code artifact, decoded source, and reconstructed Git history | Historical description appears on OpenSource and TechWorks |
techworks/ |
Talks, papers, interviews, event metadata, transcripts, media, and source snapshots | Curated on TechWorks |
web-history/ |
Recovered alan.dipert.org and neologic.net/ad pages, RSS snapshots, indexes, and WARCs |
Eight blog posts are selected on RecoveredTechnicalWriting |
personal-manifest.tsv and the root SHA256SUMS cover every preservation
artifact outside techworks/. TechWorks keeps its richer independent
manifest. Both are checked by make archive-audit and exported by
make archive-export DEST=/absolute/path.
Large binary artifacts use Git LFS. A complete recovery therefore requires both the Git repository and its LFS object store. See the top-level README for capture, verification, and export commands.