parrik

Source for parrik.com — essays on systems, biology, and the practice.

Built with Astro. Deployed to GitHub Pages.

Essays

• Know Thyself — a schema for personal memory in LLM conversations.
• The Partition Problem — restorative yoga and the biology of belonging.
• The Campaign Cascade — why cross-cutting engineering initiatives multiply instead of completing.

Local development

npm install
npm run dev          # localhost:4321
npm run build        # output in dist/

Adding an essay

1. Create src/content/essays/your-essay-slug.md with frontmatter:

---
title: Your Essay Title
subtitle: Optional subtitle
tag: essay | poster | short
order: 3                     # lower = earlier in list
description: Short description for SEO / social.
pdfUrl: /your-essay-slug.pdf # optional
---

2. The slug becomes the URL: /essays/your-essay-slug/.
3. (Optional) Generate a PDF of the rendered essay while npm run dev is running:

npm run pdf your-essay-slug

Output lands at public/your-essay-slug.pdf.