Glossary of your hobby's jargon
Use with: build-website. Resume line when done: Wrote and published a {count}-term reference glossary — live at {url}
Brief
Every hobby has a wall of jargon that nobody explains: fishing, skating, knitting, climbing, keyboards. You climbed that wall the hard way. Write the glossary you needed at the start, every term defined the way you wish someone had defined it for you, with the context that dictionary definitions leave out: when you hear it, why it matters, what beginners confuse it with.
Personalize
- The hobby. One you are past the beginner stage in. You need to have been confused by these terms yourself, so you know which definitions are useless.
- The term list. Brain-dump every term you had to learn, then ask one newer person in the hobby which words confused them. Aim for 25 or more.
- Your examples. Each definition uses a moment from your own time in the hobby. That is what a generic glossary cannot have.
Milestones
- Ten terms with one-line definitions live at a URL, day one.
- Full term list assembled and grouped into whatever categories the hobby splits into.
- Every definition written properly: what it means, when you hear it, a personal example.
- Alphabetical index and category navigation, cross-links between related terms.
- A newcomer to the hobby reads it and flags what still confuses them. Rewrite those entries.
- Phone styling and final README.
Done means
- Live URL responding; navigable on a phone
- At least 25 terms, each with a personal example
- Newcomer review and the rewrites it caused recorded in the README
- Cross-links between related terms work
- At least 8 commits across at least 5 distinct days, authored by you
- SESSIONS.md has an entry per session, written by you