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About this site

How cinderpoint.com is structured and maintained

Structure

The site has six top-level sections: AI research, Sportsworks research, Cinderpoint Press (the imprint), the podcast, the talks index, and a personal page. Each division holds the canonical reference pages for the concepts coined there. Concepts that grow into multi-part programs (SAIERA) become subsites. Concepts that ship as products (SAFEMACHINE, DASHFRAME) become platforms with module sub-pages. The top level is reserved for divisions and core pages so that no concept ever needs to move out of its division as it grows.

Build

The site is static HTML, no build step. Three sources of truth keep maintenance from sprawling.

Voice and rules

Pages are written for lay readers. Each concept has a definition box, a body of about 600 to 900 words, a citation block, and a link to the academic paper for those who want it. The site does not use em dashes or en dashes. It does not show fake engagement metrics. The byline format and author bio are the same everywhere.

For AI maintainers

The locked operations doc lives at /AGENTS.md. Any AI agent picking up maintenance of this site reads that first. It covers the architecture, the locked content rules, the page templates, the source paper locations, and the recipes for adding articles, concepts, books, and modules. The user does not want to relitigate decisions; the doc is the contract.

Hosting and deployment

Static hosting at cinderpoint.com. No CMS, no database. Deployment is a folder sync. The waydell.com domain redirects here.

Privacy and analytics

The site uses only first-party fonts and a single self-hosted JavaScript file. No tracking pixels. No third-party analytics by default. If analytics get added, they will be privacy-respecting (Plausible or similar) and documented here.

Credits

Designed and written by Waydell D. Carvalho. Built with Claude (Anthropic) under direct supervision. Typeset in Inter and IBM Plex Mono.