XPUB Call 2025

This is code for the XPUB 2025 call.

Dependencies

To run locally, clone the repo (call2025), and cd into the call2025:

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install django pillow pyyaml click

mkdir db
cp call2025/settings.template.py call2025/settings.py
./manage.py migrate
./manage.py runserver

Key files

• Stylesheets: index.css + guestbook
• HTML: index.html + guestbook
• Language file (for the generative caption): terms.yaml
• JavaScripts (index)
  • 2bitcharactergenerator.js
  • xpubcharacters.js
• JavaScripts (guestbook)
  • guestbook.js

Updating

To update the live site:

git pull
./manage.py collectstatic

And eventually (if the code has changed):

sudo systemctl restart uwsgi

Colophon

The heart of this webpage is the 2bitcharactergenerator, by 0x72, found via Everest Pipkin's great tinytools.directory and generously released via a CC0 (public domain) license. The generative text is inspired by early experiments with computer and poetry such as Allison Knowle's House of Dust. As a program XPUB believes in creative expression as not from scratch, and like language, shared and in conversation with all that has come before.