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AI agent

A program that uses a language model to plan and act (edit code, run commands) toward a goal; Majordomus makes such agents prove their work.

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Alpine.js

A small JavaScript framework that adds behaviour to HTML in its own attributes; here the filters, drawers and palette.

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Apache ECharts

An Apache project for interactive charts: calendars, sunbursts, maps and large data sets.

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C (programming language)

The small, fast systems language beneath operating systems and most other languages.

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Chart.js

A light library for common charts (bars, lines, doughnuts) on an HTML canvas.

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Commit

One recorded change in a repository, with its author and time; the last commit dates a project's activity here.

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C++

C with classes, templates and abstractions that cost nothing at run time; used where speed matters.

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C#

Microsoft's object-oriented language for .NET. A term of the glossary.

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CSS

The style language of the web: layout, colour and typography of HTML.

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Cytoscape.js

A library for drawing and analysing graphs (networks of nodes and edges) in the browser.

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D3.js

Data-Driven Documents: a toolkit that binds data to SVG and HTML, the basis of the art visuals here (spiral, bubbles, streams).

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Data visualisation

Turning numbers into pictures people can read at a glance: here spirals, bubbles, streams and graphs, each drawn from measured data.

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Dockerfile

The recipe that builds a container image: a base system, files and commands, reproducible anywhere.

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Elixir

A functional language on the Erlang virtual machine, built for concurrent, fault-tolerant systems.

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Erlang

A language and runtime from telecoms, designed for systems that must keep running while parts of them fail.

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Flowbite Pro

A licensed library of interface blocks and an application shell on Tailwind CSS; every page of this site is built from it.

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Fork

A copy of someone else's repository under your account; forks are counted on this site but never shown as the owner's work.

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Front matter

Structured data at the top of a content file (here TOML) that describes the page to the generator and to machines.

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GIS

Geographic information systems: data tied to places, stored, analysed and drawn as maps.

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GitHub Pages

GitHub's hosting for static websites, deployed from a repository; this site and most project sites live there.

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Haskell

A purely functional language with lazy evaluation and a strong type system; a place to learn to think in types.

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HTML

The markup language of web pages: the structure that styles and scripts work on.

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Internationalisation

Designing software so every text can be translated; this site exists in English and Czech, and a gate fails on any untranslated text.

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Java

An object-oriented language on the Java Virtual Machine, long the default of enterprise software.

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JavaScript

The programming language of the web browser, also run on servers through Node.js. Every interactive part of this site is JavaScript.

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JSON-LD

Linked data in JSON embedded in a page, telling search engines and machines what the page is about (schema.org).

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Majordomus

The owner's supervisory layer for AI-assisted work: one policy for every coding agent, scoped tasks, and finishes that must be proven.

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MCP

The Model Context Protocol: an open protocol through which AI applications reach tools and data.

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Mirror

A repository that copies another project's code; here a repository counts as original only when the owner wrote at least half of its commits.

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Nix

A language and package manager for reproducible, declarative system configuration.

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Open Graph

Meta tags that tell social networks how to preview a link: title, description and image.

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Open source

Software whose source code anyone may read, use, change and share under its licence.

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OSINT

Open-source intelligence: knowledge built from publicly available sources, with every claim traceable to its source.

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p5.js

A creative-coding library descended from Processing, for drawing and simulation in the browser.

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PostGIS

The spatial extension of PostgreSQL: points, shapes and geographic queries in SQL.

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PostgreSQL

An open-source relational database known for correctness and extensions.

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Python

A general-purpose language valued for readability, common in data work and scripting.

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Repository

A project's folder under version control: its files and their whole history of commits.

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Ruby

A dynamic, expressive language designed for programmer happiness; many of the older tools here are Ruby.

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Rust

A systems language that guarantees memory safety without a garbage collector; Majordomus is written in it.

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Shell

Scripts for the Unix command line (bash, zsh), the glue that installs, builds and deploys.

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Static site generator

A program that turns content and templates into plain files before anyone visits, so the site needs no server code.

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Swift

Apple's language for iOS and macOS applications. A term of the glossary.

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Tailwind CSS

A CSS framework of small utility classes composed in the markup, compiled to only what a page uses.

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TypeScript

JavaScript with static types, checked before the code runs and compiled to plain JavaScript.

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WCAG

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines; every page here is checked against WCAG 2.2 level AA before it ships.

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Web Audio

The browser API for generating, processing and analysing sound in real time.

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Zola

A static site generator in one Rust binary: Markdown and templates in, a whole multilingual website out.

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