Naming things

This site was going to be called stdout — until stdout.pages.dev turned out to be taken. The *.pages.dev and *.github.io namespaces are shared, global, and first-come-first-served, so a name isn’t yours until you’ve claimed it everywhere you might ever want it.

What checking actually taught me:

• Unreachable ≠ unregistered. exit0.dev doesn’t load in a browser, but the rdap registry record shows it was bought in 2019 and renewed through 2027. Most registered domains are parked, serving nothing.
• Candidate names worth keeping for later: pagefault (learning as demand paging), tailf (readers following a live log), dmesg (the kernel’s own ledger).
• unbuffered won: output flushed to the stream the moment it’s written — no buffering, no polish delay. Which is also the publishing philosophy here.

Next: does the name still work if this garden grows non-engineering branches (mindmaps, kids projects)? Current answer: yes — everything is still output.