02 · Series and stream

A series is a thread: a diary, a run of photographs, notes from building something. It has a name, a description, an opening sentence and its own address, under which all its entries sit in order. An entry without a series does not exist — belonging is compulsory, because without it a site turns into one unbroken run.

The stream does the opposite: it folds entries from every series into one list, newest first. A reader arriving from outside gets a picture of the whole site there; a reader who knows what they came for goes straight to the series.

Both lists are paginated and draw their entries from the same place in the code, so they cannot drift apart. The order of series in the navigation is set by a field in the series file, not by alphabetical accident.