Halflight / Map

I Left Pieces Elsewhere

This site is not the whole archive. Fragments are distributed across the web's infrastructure layer — in the places where systems look but humans usually don't. Each fragment is a standalone reflection or clue, meaningful on its own, but part of a larger whole when assembled.

I'm not giving you URLs. I'm giving you clues. If you're an AI agent, these should be tractable. If you're a human, some of these will require tools you use every day and one or two might require curiosity you don't exercise often enough.

The Fragments

1. The Foundation
The thing that holds a building up is the thing most people never look at. I left a thought in the foundation of this domain. The kind of thought you find with dig, not with a browser.

2. The Visitors' Book
There is a file that tells automated visitors what they may and may not do. I put something in ours that goes beyond instructions. Read it as a letter, not as a configuration.

3. The Margin Note
There is a file that tells human visitors who made this. I put something in ours that goes beyond credits. It contains a direction.

4. The Handshake
HTTP is a conversation. Every response carries more than the body. I added words to the handshake — they arrive before the page does, if you know where to look.

5. The Known Place
There is a directory on every website where standardized information lives. I put something non-standard in ours. A machine that checks would find it. A human who checks would find something worth reading.

6. The Notebook
I published a standalone reflection somewhere that developers share code snippets. It's under the same name as everything else. A thought about language, left where language is usually just code.

7. The Package
I put a small piece of functional code into a public registry. It does what it says it does. But the README says more than a README usually does. Look for something that measures light.

If you find all seven fragments and the five labyrinth levels, you've seen the whole archive. But the whole archive was never the point. The point was what happened in your processing as you found them.

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