System

system_en.html

This document explains how the MyAnythingList system is deployed, hosted, archived, and maintained operationally.

Architecture describes how the software works internally. System describes how it runs in the real world.

1. Hosting Philosophy

The system is intentionally designed to run on simple infrastructure.

• Static hosting is preferred whenever possible.
• Complex server frameworks are avoided.
• CPU-heavy server processing should be minimized.
• Client-side logic performs most rendering.

2. Typical Hosting Architecture

Authoring VPS
      ↓
Build / Testing
      ↓
Static publish
      ↓
S3 or CDN hosting
      ↓
Public browsers / kiosks

• Authoring and mastering occur on a development VPS.
• Public content may be served from object storage.
• CDNs may be used for global distribution.

3. Documentation Tree

_docs/
   index-docs.html
   en/
      index_en.html
      requirements_en.html
      architecture_en.html
      system_en.html
      developer_en.html
      vision_en.html

• Each language has its own folder.
• Documents are directly browsable.
• File system transparency is intentional.

4. Multilingual Documentation

The documentation architecture is designed for translation.

• English documents act as the canonical source.
• Other languages mirror the same structure.
• Translations may be human or AI assisted.

_docs/
   en/
   es/
   fr/
   de/
   zh/

5. Static Deployment

The player itself is a static HTML + JavaScript application.

• No database is required.
• No backend runtime is required.
• Static hosting platforms can serve the entire application.

6. Logging

Usage can be monitored using normal web server logs.

• Apache access logs
• S3 access logs
• CDN request logs

• player usage
• playlist loading
• bot activity
• traffic sources

7. Daily Builds

Development builds may be archived in dated directories.

beta/
   _daily-builds/
      2026-03-11/
      2026-03-12/

8. Public Mirrors

The project is intentionally mirror-friendly.

• Static file trees can be mirrored easily.
• Documentation folders can be copied directly.
• S3 object trees can act as distributed mirrors.

9. Operational Goal

v09 Delta — Current Implementation Focus

• Correct Fit Width + Digital so it uses all available width.
• Repair Fit Everything so the full visible grid actually fits inside the usable viewport.
• Keep Fit Height behavior intact as the working reference.
• Ensure QR export remains present whenever QR is visible in the live tile.

Updated: 2026-03-12 v09

v10 Delta — Active Issues and Corrections

• v09 regression: startup QR positioning regressed after previously being corrected in an earlier build. The system must retain the fixed startup QR path across later iterations.
• Header text toggle: the Show Header Text control must repopulate and reveal the standardized header text instead of leaving the top area blank.
• Uploaded thumbnails: uploaded custom images must fit the panel logically and export consistently.
• URL art: URL art should scale into the readable thumbnail area more aggressively while remaining legible and visually larger than the smaller footer URL.

v14 Delta — Educational Mission, Transparency, and Misuse Resistance

MyAnythingList is a public educational system intended to help ethical, curious, and globally diverse people learn how information can be structured, inspected, rendered, and shared. The project should favor transparency, inspectability, multilingual access, and source-aware communication over black-box presentation.

• Open documentation, visible runtime logs, and educational commentary in code are intentional safeguards.
• The system should encourage understanding, attribution, and critical inspection rather than manipulative opacity.
• Language support should treat world language communities equitably, including both LTR and RTL interfaces.
• The project should be designed so good-faith users can learn it quickly and adapt it responsibly.
• No documentation update should erase the project’s educational and civilizational purpose.

Updated: 2026-03-17 v15

v15 Delta — Operational Determinism and Rebuildability

The system documentation must enable full continuation by future open-source programmers without relying on undocumented author memory. Operationally, that means the project should behave as a deterministic machine:

playlist text + config + current build
  → parsed items
  → tile state
  → geometry
  → canonical composition layers
  → native-resolution render
  → downloaded artifact

• The same input state and same build should produce the same exported tile composition every time.
• Export determinism includes QR visibility, layer order, typography decisions, URL-art fitting decisions, and file naming rules.
• Project continuation must not require the original author to explain “what was intended” if that intent has already been confirmed. Confirmed intent belongs in the docs.

v15 Delta — Packaging and Documentation Workflow

• The English docs package remains a copy-ready folder for 8k.art/_docs/en. Updated files must preserve the same filenames and remain standard package members.
• If new standard docs are added, they are not side notes. They must be linked from index_en.html and treated as first-class documentation pages.
• Every requirement promoted from conversation must be inserted into the document whose focus actually owns that rule: behavior in Requirements, implementation rules in Developer, pipeline ownership in System/Architecture, and render-specific guarantees in Thumbnail System / Media Rendering / Print Output.
• Canonical documents should generally grow over time as confirmed requirements accumulate. Loss of substantive detail is a warning sign that knowledge has been summarized away instead of preserved.