readme and content update

README.md - marked layout front-matter as optional
src/about.md - made slightly less flippant, added 'todo.'
src/index.md - consolidated a bit, added 'technical goals.'

README.md

@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ Though this repo is mostly intended for my own use, if you happened to stumble i
 –––
 title: Cool Page
 description: Does whatever a cool page does
-layout: layouts/base.njk
 permalink: /page/
 –––
 ```
@@ -31,11 +30,11 @@ permalink: /page/
 2. If the new page should be included in the nav, add it to `src/_data/site.json`.
 
 ## Front Matter Notes
-* `title` - Shown in page title and title bar.
-* `description` - Page-specific meta description; uses site default if not specified.
-* `layout: layouts/base.njk` - Required for template formatting.
+* `title` - Shown in page title and title bar
+* `description` - Page-specific meta description; uses site default if not specified
+* `layout: layouts/base.njk` - (optional) override for layout template
 * `permalink` - optional, override 11ty path generating behavior with pretty slug
-* `draft: true` - Set on incomplete articles to exclude from 11ty build.
+* `draft: true` - Set on incomplete articles to exclude from 11ty build
 
 ## RSS Feed
 

src/about.md

@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 ---
 title: About
-description: Who is this ety?
-layout: layouts/base.njk
+description: Who is this “ety”?
 permalink: /about/
 ---
 
 # About
 
-Yeaaaah. You're in the right place.
+Yep, that’s me. You’re probably wondering how I got here.
+
+(We’ll revisit this… in time.)

src/index.md

@@ -9,10 +9,17 @@ Welcome to my personal site. My name is Ety, and I’ll be your host during your
 
 ## What is this place?
 
-We’re in the early stages, but it’s my hope that this site can be a place to share some of my thoughts, projects, and passions, with any who might find good company in such endeavors.
+We’re in the early stages of this site (the latest iteration in a long series of attempts to maintain a website, itself), but it’s my hope that this site can be a place to share some of my thoughts, projects, and passions, with any who might find good company in such endeavors.
+
+## What are we doing?
+
+Most of the focus here will be on living pages in the style of a digital garden. When the mood strikes, possibly a blog post now and again.
+
+There are, additionally, two ‘technical’ goals for this site:
+
+1. Expose, at a minimum, the blog pages of this site via RSS/Atom.
+2. Publish this entire site as a Gemini capsule without compromises.
 
 ## Under construction
 
-This site will be the ~10th time I’ve attempted to maintain something approximating a website/blog. Turns out, writing about yourself can be difficult, even if it’s ‘just’ about your interests.
-
 In the evergreen words of the early web, ‘this space is under construction, please pardon our dust.’ It is left to you, the reader, to imagine the animated traffic cones and construction bollards as appropriate of the time.