linger

Almost everything on the web wants to move you along. linger is seven poems that only finish if you slow down. Each line starts as a few words in white space, and the rest fills in while you hold still. Paper has no idea how fast you're reading, and a web page does, so I made speed the thing that decides which words you get.

Read them at linger.joekarlsson.com · Read the full statement

Quick start

git clone https://github.com/JoeKarlsson/linger.git
cd linger
open index.html

Writing a poem

Poems live in poems.js. A plain word is always there. A word marked ^ comes when you pause, and a word marked ~ comes only if you stay.

"~the call ^came ~at five-forty: no school.",

Development

There are no tests or build. GitHub Pages serves main at the custom domain in CNAME, so a push to main is a deploy.

License

Poems CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Code MIT. See LICENSE.