Proposal 001 · open for review · 72-hour lazy consensus
The expert · the practice · the object
iusethis is a claim, and an entry is a review in the fullest sense: a love story, a historical tale, of an expert and the tools. One man and his trainset, not a survey of train gauges. This proposal sets the editorial identity, the article format, the site-wide color system, the logo, and how we find the people who can write this way.
The seal carries all three elements —
I. / Use. / This. struck in coin relief, ringed the way
a © circles its C — and the arrow-T's shaft breaks through the rim, so
the seal points at whatever it is affixed to. Official mark and
copyright seal in one:
© iusethis.org.
Wordmark colors: I in gold, Use in green, This in mahogany.
Shipped as assets/logo.svg with its own dark-theme colors
and a one-time load action: the wordmark's arrow strikes downward into
place (pure CSS, honors reduced motion). In running text, "This" stays
plain text — the arrow lives in the marks only.
The Bearer — the second depiction:
a graduate holding the mark to their chest the way a diploma is held in
the commencement photo. I got it, I worked for it, I use it, it got
me a job. /s
Posed in deliberate meta irony, and the /s belongs to the
caption: the Reddit sarcasm tag, born as a fake closing HTML tag
(Know Your Meme:
Fake HTML Tags) — a fitting citation for a static-HTML archive. The
joke is load-bearing: we know exactly how proudly professing a crockpot
reads, and we mean every word anyway. Irony opens the door; sincerity
furnishes the room. The pose is the editorial stance in one image —
ownership and earned competency, journalist and expert at once. The
write-up is the diploma. Uses: author badges beside bylines,
the About page, merch. Shipped as assets/bearer.svg.
Intimate, not cursory, knowledge — a professor professing: publicly, named, open to peers. The author's years are the credential.
Operated daily, bought over again. The cadence of locking in and losing time — the repetition musical instruments make honorable.
A specific item in the catalog. Not the category, not the market — this one, with its wear patterns and its provenance.
invite-wishlist issue label of
writers whose devotion is already visible, invited personally.Magazine structure: each image opens a section and gives it context.
Template shipped as article.html. The Register data block is
required — it is what makes this an archive, not a blog.
| Image | Section | Carries |
|---|---|---|
| FIG. 1 | Title & Register | The hero: the object in its place of use. Then the data: in use since · hours logged · hours to fluency · expected remaining years · provenance · care ritual. |
| FIG. 2 | The Meeting | How it entered your life; what it replaced; the first sign it was different. |
| FIG. 3 | The Practice | The cadence of locking in; a session minute by minute; the pull quote. |
| FIG. 4 | The Expertise | The iron-core-glaze analysis only years of use can teach. The professed knowledge. |
| FIG. 5 | The Care & the Years | Maintenance, lifecycle, succession — commercialism become stewardship. Then the appendix: what the object makes (the recipe, the score, the config). |
Hard rules: first person; the Register numbers are a merge requirement; no affiliate links ever; at least one passage a newcomer couldn't write.
Trust colors of an opulent old bank: deep green, burnished gold, dark
mahogany, veined marble. One gold token threads all four.
Shipped as assets/tokens.css; this page is set in Marble
and follows your OS theme.
CONTRIBUTING.md).invite-wishlist; anyone may nominate a writer + object.assets/tokens.css.