Decided how posts will be published

This site is getting two new sections: one for research writing, and one for general posts. Both will be written through a publishing tool rather than by editing the site's files. The tool will live at its own address, and the only sign-in that exists will belong to the person who runs Nicholic.

Some of what this site says about itself has to change when that arrives. Two pages currently describe it as static files with no sign-in anywhere, and today that is true. Posts in the new sections will be served by a small piece of code reading from a database that holds only published writing — and both pages will be amended to say exactly that before the change takes effect, with the superseded wording kept readable, as the fourth commitment requires.

The checks are the part being handled most carefully. Every page here passes, at build time, through checks that hold its words to written rules. Posts published through the tool will not pass through those. They will be checked at the moment of publishing instead, against the same rules — and the difference is real: a build check cannot be sidestepped without editing it in public, while a publishing check can be sidestepped by the one person holding the sign-in. Writing that down before the tool exists is the point of this entry.

Nothing about the pages that exist today changes with this entry. They stay plain files; they still set no cookies and load nothing from anywhere else. This log stays where it is and keeps its build-time checks, which is why the announcement lives here.