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.'

src/about.md

@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
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 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.