randogoth 8505b7e9e0 Three sites, one directory each

flux.vision, tobias.raayoni-last.com and randogoth.com. They were one site until
October 2026, serving four audiences from a single dated list, which is the only
format that can hold unrelated things at once.

flux.vision is recovered from the Wayback Machine, where it had sat since being
deleted in 2021: 90 articles, closed and maintained rather than updated.
tobias.raayoni-last.com is the professional record, 97 articles back to 1999.
randogoth.com is the technical work, 41 articles across six areas, served as an
ANSI bulletin board.

History starts here deliberately. The development history, the 266-row inventory
that records why each article went where it did, the Wayback pipelines, the
pruned articles, the source archives and the full-size images are kept beside
the repo rather than in it, so a clone is the web presence and not the argument
that produced it. REFACTOR.md is gitignored for the same reason. See README.md
for where that material lives, and keep it: the sort is not reproducible from
these three directories alone.

Each site documents itself in its own README, including the traps that cost time
and look like nothing when you get them wrong.

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sites

Three domains, one directory each, one audience each.

Directory	Domain	Subject	Audience
`flux.vision/`	flux.vision	Kiritan Flux: media arts, VJ, performance, installations, 2003-2021	festival and art world
`tobias.raayoni-last.com/`	tobias.raayoni-last.com	client work, portfolio, CV	clients, employers, galleries
`randogoth.com/`	randogoth.com	the technical work, six areas	devs, retro and small-net readers

They were one site until October 2026. The split is the fix: four audiences were being handed one page, and a page that serves four audiences collapses into the only format that can hold unrelated things, which is a dated list.

sublunar.space is deliberately not here. It is a working blog with nine years and 440 commits of its own voice, and it keeps its own repo.

Building

All three are Pelican, with no shared build. Each stands alone:

cd flux.vision        # or tobias.raayoni-last.com, or randogoth.com
uv run --quiet --with pelican --with markdown -- pelican content -o output -s pelicanconf.py

Each directory has its own README covering its theme, its taxonomy and the traps specific to it.

	articles	theme	notes
`flux.vision/`	90	`flux`	recovered from the Wayback Machine; closed, maintained not updated
`tobias.raayoni-last.com/`	97	`raayoni`	grid of tiles, light and dark
`randogoth.com/`	41	`bbs`	an ANSI bulletin board, 80 columns; `mc-pelican` is the fallback

Deployment

Built and served on bucur. A push triggers a webhook that builds the changed site and rsyncs it into place. Content does not trigger a system activation: the site derivations are flake packages, so a typo costs a Pelican run rather than a nixos-rebuild switch.

Shared conventions

No em dashes. Commas, colons, full stops or ·.
Flat slugs. {slug}.html on all three. Categories get reworked; slugs should not move.
No nl2br. The recovered bodies are hard wrapped at about 70 characters, so it turns every source line into a forced break. This has been fixed twice; do not add it back.
Lost images are handled at build time, not in the browser. The references stay in the Markdown because the reference records what was there; plugins/lostimages.py strips them from the output.
Check the built output, not the source. Several bugs here were invisible at a glance and obvious to a counter: forced line breaks that fell near the natural wrap, box drawing a column short, a config change that silently emptied every hotkey.

The working material

The inventory, the recovery pipelines, the pruned articles, the source archives and REFACTOR.md live outside this repo, at /mnt/data/Backup/sites-restructure-2026-10-05/. A clone is the three sites, not the argument that produced them.

That backup is worth keeping: the sort is not reproducible from the sites alone. inventory.tsv records why each of 266 articles went where it did, and _pruned/ is the only record of what was taken out.