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# Allowing Things to Break # Allowing Things to Break
I have long toyed with the idea of creating a personal web page that I can use to express myself more freely than social media platforms allow. It makes sense for Twitter and others to be somewhat rigidly regulated to make everybody shout at least a bit less loudly. It also makes the universal machines on our desktops and in our pockets appear much less universal, and less approachable to experimental exploration than they allow for. I have long toyed with the idea of creating a personal web page that I can use to express myself more freely than social media platforms allow. It makes sense for Twitter and others to be somewhat rigidly regulated, to set some rules on content and form for everybody to follow. On the other hand it makes the universal machines on our desktops and in our pockets appear much less universal, and less approachable to experimental exploration than they allow for.
It is hard to predict what this page / blog / space ends up being when I'm just writing the first couple of words of hopefully many more, but I have an idea of it that may show in a small thing I've been working on in the last few days. It is hard to predict what this page / blog / space ends up being when I'm just writing the first couple of words of hopefully many more, but I have an idea of it that may show in a small thing I've been working on in the last few days.
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I did this in the way I know how to do those things, by creating a small web page that is as self-contained as possible. You can find the result at [https://arnes.space/pages/dimensions-of-covid](https://arnes.space/pages/dimensions-of-covid). I did this in the way I know how to do those things, by creating a small web page that is as self-contained as possible. You can find the result at [https://arnes.space/pages/dimensions-of-covid](https://arnes.space/pages/dimensions-of-covid).
It is a single HTML-file without any external resources like stylesheets, fonts or images. The data is regularly fetched from [https://covid-19.datasettes.com](https://covid-19.datasettes.com/covid/johns_hopkins_csse_daily_reports), which provides a simple way to query data which is gathered and provided by the [Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering](https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19/tree/master/csse_covid_19_data). The data is saved in a local SQLite database and queried in a Lua script, which draws one dot for each person that died globally. It is a single HTML-file without any external resources like stylesheets, fonts or images. The data is regularly fetched from [https://covid-19.datasettes.com](https://covid-19.datasettes.com/covid/johns_hopkins_csse_daily_reports), which provides a simple way to query data gathered and provided by the [Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering](https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19/tree/master/csse_covid_19_data). The data is saved in a local SQLite database and queried in a Lua script, which draws one dot for each person that died globally.
I'm not sure if the page has a similar effect on anybody else or if I, as its author, am gazing at it with a unique perspective, but I found its effect quite profound. A couple of observations that I want to note: I'm not sure if the page has a similar effect on anybody else or if I, as its author, am gazing at it with a unique perspective, but I found its effect quite profound. A couple of observations that I want to note: