PERISTYLE/ˈpɛrɪstaɪl/noun
(Latin peristylum, from Greek peristulon, from peri “around” and stulos “column”)
1.archit. (antiquity) A covered gallery lined with columns, surrounding the courtyard or garden of a Roman house. Beyond the atrium, which was open to visitors, the peristyle was the private heart of the home: a place to stroll, to read and to receive close friends. A fountain murmured at the centre of the peristyle.
2.fig. PERISTYLE: a place of one’s own where what you read and what you keep come together. The feeds you follow, the links you set aside, the pages you archive, gathered around the same garden, at home, sheltered from the street.
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SELF-HOSTED/ˌsɛlfˈhəʊstɪd/adjective
(from self-, and host)
1.comput. Said of software installed on your own server rather than with a third party. PERISTYLE installs as a single Docker image: your data stays on your own disks. A self-hosted instance on the home server.
2.by ext. Shared between several accounts on the same instance, each with its own garden, with common spaces to read and sort things together.
3.fig. Arranged as you please: themes, languages and extensions are simply dropped into folders.
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FEED/fiːd/noun
(Old English fēdan, “to nourish”)
1.gen. A steady supply that keeps something going. The spring that feeds the fountain at the centre of the peristyle.
2.comput. An RSS or Atom stream you subscribe to: every new article from a site arrives in it by itself. In PERISTYLE, feeds are sorted into folders and read as cards, as a list or as a carousel. Three unread feeds this morning.
3.reading An article stripped of clutter (ads, menus, pop-ups), then laid out again to get to the point and read without effort. A clean feed reads in one go.
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BOOKMARK/ˈbʊkmɑːk/noun
(from book and mark)
1.bookbinding A ribbon fixed to a book to mark a page.
2.comput. A link set aside for later, sorted by tags and collections.
ARCHIVE/ˈɑːkaɪv/noun
(Late Latin archivum, from Greek arkheion, “magistrates’ residence”)
1.comput. In PERISTYLE, a full copy of a page, kept as it is and readable even if the original disappears. Keeping a recipe as an archive.
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