# bto-pro

> All things btopro on my own blog.

HAXcms is a file-based CMS: authored pages and metadata are stored as portable files, not locked into a database-only workflow.
The canonical site structure is `site.json`, represented in JSON Outline Schema (`id`, `parent`, `order`, `slug`, `location`, and `metadata`).
Use HAX CLI and ecosystem tooling to maintain human-authored content while keeping machine-readable outputs synchronized.
Managed files (feeds, search indexes, manifests, and this `llms.txt`) are generated artifacts and should be rebuilt by tooling.

## Core resources
- [site.json](https://btopro.com/site.json): Canonical site manifest and navigation tree in JSON Outline Schema format.
- [llms.txt](https://btopro.com/llms.txt): LLM-oriented guide to this site and its machine-readable resources.

## Pages
- [The Teachable](https://btopro.com/pages/item-e69dc923-a3a6-4052-8726-9aeec9c2105c/index.md): Skill is the learned behavior of repetition and desire to improve. In the thousands of touches on the puck or taps of the keyboard, we start to loose sight of what was once learned behavior, now view
- [I, Developed.](https://btopro.com/pages/item-72eec0cc-53fc-4a38-9e2b-79ed350ba3dc/index.md): When I was a child, my parents helped me to develop. I had a loving home, that encouraged my growth and development in all aspects of life. Parents, thank you for developing your children this year
- [The Climb](https://btopro.com/pages/item-4a18ebe0-cf6a-49cd-9531-4c430ba2a9e0/index.md): It was New years Eve 2018, or shortly before it. About 1 year ago, where I looked in the mirror and said to myself [paraphrase] if we're going to get to 2020 and what's to come in that year... ther
- [Keep moving: Week 0](https://btopro.com/pages/item-88a3c232-54d6-4179-8059-634223f201c4/index.md): I've felt 2020 coming for a long time. I still recall the realization. In 2012 I had a vision of what I had to build with my life. The pattern it would form. And then I remember in 2015 having some
- [Arrival](https://btopro.com/pages/item-8e045593-79fd-401d-b380-1029001f5574/index.md): Some decades, nothing happens. Other days, decades happen.That sentiment about sums up what the last few weeks have been like. As if everyone began to realize what we built, all at once, after years
- [Information Altruism 2.0](https://btopro.com/pages/item-1235ea3a-9254-4b93-8df3-8909fddcce88/index.md): In 2006 I started Graduate school at Penn State. I didn't know why I was there other then to get an advanced degree and be exposed to different ideas. In that exposure though, I found my purpose. My
- [Why I started hax-camp](https://btopro.com/pages/item-82b4b5d3-b8cb-4fab-ac71-10b98a0dac91/index.md): Hi. I'm Bryan Ollendyke, and I have a vision of the future and, I think, a way to get there. I'm not fancy. I don't have big money. I don't have important people on high; I have something far more im
- [Abstractionism](https://btopro.com/pages/item-25c16bd5-a817-4df1-b147-88e448309a4b/index.md): A running back channel where my colleague tells me her ideology and I say awesome, cool, fun and then the way I self describe and explain I'm told is not a valid definition ;). This has been happenin
- [Villains and Visionaries](https://btopro.com/pages/item-0589f6d1-3184-4e46-a856-7522d2a1b435/index.md): The Joker and V are both painted as villains but its only V that breaks through to what he actually is as seen by the audience: a visionary. A vision of a different form of society then the one in pl
- [Our Values: Empowerment](https://btopro.com/pages/item-7080d384-ade3-441e-867f-4d5b955f99a2/index.md): Movements claiming to be without leaders are bullshit. Everything starts somewhere and with someone or a group of someones. It's critical in my mind, as the person starting HAX, to frame what it is t
- [Catching Gman](https://btopro.com/pages/item-92cf5d68-96a8-44c4-b31a-9aae74c08ab7/index.md): Cut to ribbons tonight by a memory maintained and a thank you I didn't expect. Let me explain how my second child, the one I've had more trouble relating to if I am perfectly honest, amazes me more b
- [The infinite void](https://btopro.com/pages/item-2d2887cc-08c8-4f22-8554-abcce1823282/index.md): Staring off, into nothing. Spacing out, focusing on the sound and the feeling of the sun beating down on my arms. I don't know what it is.. but when I see others relax at the beach I can't help but f
- [My first time on stage](https://btopro.com/pages/item-5d49d1f3-0918-4bc9-90ef-855c8dcdc711/index.md): This, is probably going to become a weekly thing or at least I'll try and make it one. This is a recap of the 1st week of class with #EdTechJoker . If you haven't followed the references, I'm code
- [Annabella](https://btopro.com/pages/item-be5cdfec-cdfd-4db8-8ace-8b13f3da004a/index.md): The wheels squeaked on the cart, boosting my kid sister I placed her in the front part kids sit in. Five years old, happy to have someone who could lift her high. I was fifteen when we went to a rand
- [Hey, remember when](https://btopro.com/pages/item-006601d9-4063-4bd9-ba32-3e959b631d31/index.md): A couch. It had to be the couch. The bastard scurries away, unheeding in the warnings of the past weeks. Undeterred in his quest for one thing. One, insatiable goal. To build a nest, in my "Effing" c
- [Open Community Pedagogy](https://btopro.com/pages/item-e3d7d519-9549-4e44-9ab8-b9df805a3531/index.md): This instructional designer didn't need to know HTML in order to convey an instructional concept. Your right! No one should need to understand HTML in order to contribute meaningful knowledge to
- [Stand against the ocean](https://btopro.com/pages/item-6286f8c6-5ba7-4623-8028-45fa1ac0ccdc/index.md): Stand Against Complacency The waves of life will crash upon you, and they'll crash hard my son. You'll be expected to carry loads that you feel aren't yours. You'll be asked to stand
- [EdTechJoker](https://btopro.com/pages/item-e0c25c63-ad3e-421e-8fd2-86cd5516d3a2/index.md): Ex Plures Plures From many, many. The phrase of a new publishing revolution. I'm old enough to remember old me. Oh, that guy. So tired. So broken. So lost. So disaffected. But the guy that showed up
- [Technical weapons](https://btopro.com/pages/item-1d1c8e5d-8c25-4035-bedb-0bbdc15a9814/index.md): Labels often set the narrative, or so liberals would argue. It's why they express deep concerns about the ways language is formed. Language can be used to divide, debate, and ensure that certain peop
- [I made a thing](https://btopro.com/pages/item-73248929-e4a5-44eb-aea5-8e2373a34b69/index.md): Hey hey, ho ho. Welcome. To the revolution!!!!! Come say hi at Apereo 2019 or Domains 2019 .
- [THE web components high performance video](https://btopro.com/pages/item-04fb0667-5539-4d0a-b841-a203d6117d69/index.md): I've become a bit performance obsessed. I often lament that the worst part of working on something you are passionate about is that first impressions with the software are everything and that if some
- [Drunken UX interview](https://btopro.com/pages/item-d7a64f62-9826-4b81-bd5a-1d855eeb1a74/index.md): I was recently interviewed on the Drunken UX podcast , a show about all things web and user experience design. I was there to talk web components, block editors, and of course #HAXTheWeb
- [Fortify](https://btopro.com/pages/item-15cbf071-ff46-4ec6-90dd-35c57537af97/index.md): "FORT. NIGHT." They yell. Not in the way that teenagers rushing home from school to dominate their friends yell but in the way of innocence. The yell of the joy of dad suggesting that we build a
- [All screens have rights](https://btopro.com/pages/item-8f85b86c-0619-4fb5-8c19-39b49c11e96b/index.md): The EU recently passed Article 13 , which it's still too early to tell the implications of but it's troubling to say the least. Any time people start trying to legislate 1s and 0s I get concerne
- [Reclaim the web](https://btopro.com/pages/item-7502f3ce-134f-4c88-beaf-85e539c0e801/index.md): Originally from twitter... but this is the power of Dweb methodology and enhanced UX. Previously these thoughts were only ever going to be the property of twitter. Now with HAXcms, I can capture and
- [Structured Anarchy](https://btopro.com/pages/item-985e5628-b3e6-44e5-85dc-c4d7be7bd754/index.md): A year has passed since I first talked about the concept of Global Success vs. Global Failure of the LMS .  I am writing now to talk about how I’ve begun working towards that goal that
- [HAXcms Theme layer Code Review](https://btopro.com/pages/item-f13dd50c-31fe-4c59-a79c-0543b0c7f52d/index.md): Weekly Code Review This 1 starts to get pretty interesting. The team talks about HAXcms, ideates about the new capabilities of the theme layer. This gets into code and great discussion of intentions
- [2018 Innovation Submission](https://btopro.com/pages/item-cd716dd0-59b0-a24d-1ddb-2779369c52b2/index.md): Not innovative This is my submission to the TLT 2018 Open Innovation Challenge. We have amazing capabilities and solutions available to us as an R1 research institution. But like
- [ELMS:LN Code review series Part 1](https://btopro.com/pages/item-44797f99-e67b-41ce-a32f-57ccafea33ec/index.md): Going to get really meta here.. This is a video showing how this blog post was made. The post follows but this video shows the state of HAXcms which is the system being used to develop this
- [Golden, shimmering, joy](https://btopro.com/pages/item-c97a8e67-971e-4e92-8b38-e348c780d072/index.md): I had one of the best days of my life. when they happen, you have to write them down. I saw my son take the first step toward becoming a person of character and strength without being pushed. His aut
- [Common web component state question](https://btopro.com/pages/item-5e860e67-2444-0304-6180-9cb7dee92321/index.md): I wanted to post an answer I gave recently to a web component question post training that we gave at Open Apereo. I asked Toben and he said it was ok if I posted the question / answer here because it
- [NGDLE is really just Enigma misspelled](https://btopro.com/pages/item-e165f124-11d5-4b9a-06ed-7b6bf1802ca8/index.md): I mean look at it! It's a bunch of random letters that's hard to pronounced or use in a sentence. Years after initial usage, people still have difficulty saying what one is beyond pictures of childho
- [Compartmentalizing](https://btopro.com/pages/item-c01a9db3-d74c-d8f9-c813-3c1bd61695a0/index.md): bitter sweet. 15 minutes spent creating things out of previous lego sets with my son made the entire day. I couldn't sleep tonight, so instead of a beer I had a ginger ale and thought about what I lo
- [OCCUPY... the bridge](https://btopro.com/pages/item-4701288e-1af1-cbd5-a7ea-e110e22cfe1a/index.md): Bridges  get us from point A to point B. Woo. But they also present (literarily) a different space to occupy. If we view two locations as islands of thought. Different, separated by space; the b
- [When Educators left the LMS](https://btopro.com/pages/item-46aa6443-ebf1-62b2-6523-760490d5ce9b/index.md): While not seeing it beyond previews and reviews, the movie When God left the building reviews an intreging concept: that people who leave the christian church are just leaving the building and pursu
- [The LMS is Cable, We are Roku. Expect Us](https://btopro.com/pages/item-8cef1ad3-7cc7-778a-b125-1d85f265742d/index.md): Cable In the 40s and 50s, the Cable industry was born. By the mid 60s it had almost a million subscribers. In the 70s and 80s the FCC regulated it heavily because of how much of an influence it had o
- [Innovation's four ingredients](https://btopro.com/pages/item-6c53744c-1b33-97a1-976f-90484f5bc450/index.md): I saw this picture at Disney's Test Track ride and had to take a picture. I love that the build up to this ride they have lots of (propaganda) pictures, prototypes and interviews with people about ca
- [Straddling the Abyss](https://btopro.com/pages/item-401610da-127f-602f-5298-265f5eea00ee/index.md): The tight rope walker He looks to his left.. certain death.He tilts to the right, also, certain death. It would appear that the only path forward, was the only way to go. No ability to step backward,
- [The Knowledge Decentralization Manifesto](https://btopro.com/pages/item-f82147b6-1844-d3c0-9515-01130ce85c79/index.md): Access to knowledge is a control system. As the "Apple of Eden " unlocked the power to question so too is the case with all modern knowledge transfer technologies. Knowledge corrupts established thou
- [HAX apereo piece](https://btopro.com/pages/item-79649f12-a6d2-98f5-3c0b-8b88f2a24457/index.md): Once you see HAX, and realize how it works, you won't be able to unsee it. What is HAX? HAX is short for Headless Authoring eXperience; meaning that we've decoupled the authoring of content and media
- [The perfect cup of coffee](https://btopro.com/pages/item-c9e2488a-44dd-f0d4-4b3f-651245add81a/index.md): (post via @btopro on twitter ) good people of the internet who drink coffee. I am about to embark on a delicious journey. A journey of mind altering chemicals pour perfectly at home. A journey, into
- [Watch the ripples and you'll miss the waves](https://btopro.com/pages/item-fd7f3b3e-edbb-ea0f-fc85-717973f49cb0/index.md): "I don't understand why you give this stuff away, it's worth a lot. I mean screw capitalism, yea I get it I mean right there. But Universities pay a lot of money for these things. Why make them fo
- [I challenge you to Transform Education; together](https://btopro.com/pages/item-40122e25-5673-4544-133f-2acb042dbb23/index.md): Institutions and employees within them will remain at rest unto acted upon by an internal or external force. Externally, this is the preasures of society, markets and learners demanding change. Inter
- [Actually, curing edtech](https://btopro.com/pages/item-4080a73d-360e-7a65-131b-705b8c6169e7/index.md): I read an article recently by Educause Review and I wonder if your able to pick up on what I did. Before reading ahead, take a minute and read through their article. It's a good take on the state of
- [Pure Joy](https://btopro.com/pages/item-897d5115-b6de-2c55-afa7-ba3262f4d9ca/index.md): The family gathered, friends came and we all shared a laugh. Then, he pulled me aside. My oldest was concerned as to why he wasn't getting ready for bed yet. "I have to start getting ready for bed ca
- [Creating the decentralized instructional experience app](https://btopro.com/pages/item-70c61ad7-f543-9af8-dd1b-1b65f0f453b2/index.md): This is based on a submission to the Penn State open innovation challenge for 2018. I like to post my ideas to my blog in addition to my submission so that I never lose them. This one is about the lo
- [Using Webcomponents to unearth the NGDLE](https://btopro.com/pages/item-1222b362-d24d-0aa7-20e7-724767f57656/index.md): I find innovation best comes from the cross-sections. The weave between spaces tends to breed the best ideas of the two fabrics to create something new. It is this mentality that's caused me to look
- [This is not reality](https://btopro.com/pages/item-be6f30a2-8a4d-e986-6af3-930f91e00464/index.md): Chapter 1: The Shower A Developer takes a shower. A Developer closes his eyes, breathes deeply, and presses the water over his scalp and eyes and face. When hands press against the eye socket in
- [Playing for 40](https://btopro.com/pages/item-d6d569eb-16fb-b10f-097a-9afbfa6a02b0/index.md): A former student employee reached out to me today and, as I've always dreamed of having the experience of a reach teacher, paid me a compliment in the form of successes he now can achieve through imp
- [Dood](https://btopro.com/pages/item-e8c71c40-1351-7293-ae61-2e01b348f71f/index.md): dudes crying. dude’s crying. dude, is, crying. This dude, has been crying uncontrollably for the last hour about how wonderful my son is. I'll recall for you what happened and it won't need muc
- [Generation Uine](https://btopro.com/pages/item-930234f4-c1d5-1d04-b08a-fddc47aa98dd/index.md): I'd like to put a positive spin on Millennials / Gen Y. As someone who doesn't really feel like he's a Millennial (until reading that most quantify this between 1980 and 2000), I often would read art
- [Birthday party](https://btopro.com/pages/item-8099a4ba-8fbc-a60f-7451-ac12d8d17409/index.md): A visual history of the last 10 years of my life working on what I believe will save education. What is saving education? Lower costs, increased access, increased accessibility, increased empathy in
- [End of Summer](https://btopro.com/pages/item-1b6dd8f4-a01e-45d6-dafe-944b4c60320e/index.md): The sleepless nights, the early mornings, the last minute requests. It's the magical time of the year known as the end of summer. The time just after all the last minute work is put in to ensure thin
- [Combating the rise of authoritarianism](https://btopro.com/pages/item-bf9b2910-4880-c87f-4026-143bb334d1a6/index.md): You may have noticed the screwed up political season in the US. Where typical corrupt politicians suddenly look like amazingly attractive options when framed against mad-men, and mad-men trick the ma
- [Singularity, Digital Activism, and saving our institutions](https://btopro.com/pages/item-92c8d1d5-e579-930b-2c57-e9753e9dfefe/index.md): *This talk was originally posted on elmsln.org. I've removed it there and moved it here because even though it's about Drupal / ELMSLN, it's the first talk I gave that I started speaking my mind and
- [DDoSA](https://btopro.com/pages/item-818bd74d-1af8-6db0-3fb0-c1fe996c4f9d/index.md): We live in the age of Citizen agents‏. Everyone can become their own nation state because of the authority that technology affords us. If broadcasting and viewership is validation, we all have
- [OccuTea WallParty](https://btopro.com/pages/item-f7c4705e-c70b-6cf9-0623-095830584d4d/index.md): I, much like you, am a person just trying to make sense of the world. Before you spew hate, recall this. I am an observer of politics that tries to "play the game" a bit differently. There are tells
- [Efficiency as Activism](https://btopro.com/pages/item-9566b53a-7c4c-54fb-4054-390d7c4c6e2e/index.md): Efficiency is not just the right thing to do or the act of making things better then before. Like anything, it can be a tactic if used correctly to modify structures from within. Anything done with i
- [Rate of perception](https://btopro.com/pages/item-093425c7-cba0-e10b-60f8-9bf6afd32f9a/index.md): I remember in high school talking about biology and as a test, you have to poke your arm with a small pin (lightly) and report when you can tell the difference between where it is and where your brai
- [Ministry of information](https://btopro.com/pages/item-f8a9a36b-2d96-17ec-0a07-356191bb57ff/index.md): Are we witness to 1940s style crowd manipulation through propaganda without realizing it? Have you watched the news lately? Does it go by a single day without having a "Get social" or "#HotToday" kin
- [Organic Deployment Architecture](https://btopro.com/pages/item-2ddc5396-01fe-60fc-5c23-fa40abae58e9/index.md): Decentralized deployment architecture All deployments currently imply a central authority, whether a company or developer running some kind of master system with control over the rest of the netw
- [Legacy of Human Hierarchy](https://btopro.com/pages/item-b1e5eaa3-a5e9-ee65-d607-9d5cf65f5e70/index.md): The hierarchy of humanity is changing. Sorry, let me rephrase.. The hierarchy of humanity must  change in order to survive and remain relevant. Because the way in which we've accessed i
- [Transform Control](https://btopro.com/pages/item-07d2884a-9e17-32f2-3175-0887f02bb49c/index.md): The old addage of IT managers of the 90's was that technology didn't matter. As in, it didn't matter which technology you choose, just that you align with one and execute. This mindset was wrough
- [Transforming industry through information altruism](https://btopro.com/pages/item-25e65b02-61b2-b987-7e86-601a241f74c9/index.md): This posting is a refinement of a concept that I presented earlier: Using OSS to disrupt industries. Through the title, I am suggesting that there are negative network-effects in the form of soci
- [Sustainable Systems Development: A moral issue](https://btopro.com/pages/item-c6866e7a-1981-8c76-293a-0b96181e4945/index.md): Sustainability has been a "hot" topic for the last five plus years now. It is often talked about in the context of the environmentalist movement or farming, but allow me to give the concept a bit
- [Go time](https://btopro.com/pages/item-5d8c0376-f796-41db-92f5-75eccf36d24b/index.md): The year is 2024, but do you know what season of life it is? I ask myself this a lot recently. What season is it? Seasons of life are different than seasons of the year but represent themes in the sa
- [FOSSY Day 1](https://btopro.com/pages/item-e21ae903-c528-475f-926d-fe5b9d97c990/index.md)
- [FOSSY Day 2](https://btopro.com/pages/item-43058044-fc46-4222-b5a5-5033f5166afa/index.md): Day two I hung out in the Education Track most of the day. This is a series of phrases and important topics I learned about to bring back: Renewable assignment - David Willey concept; it's having stu
- [FOSSY Day 3](https://btopro.com/pages/item-c7c43c72-1a21-4e60-8d56-a12aac372936/index.md): Starting out the day with UN SDGs. I wonder how HAX could fit into these. It might be a good idea to make a page or start a blog specific to HAX and how it meets these goals (among other things). Exc
- [Fossy24](https://btopro.com/pages/item-49900a85-b309-48d5-a962-e291ca69b352/index.md): My thoughts on FOSSY 24 as they happened. I grouped them under here because they were per day and I think important to capture in that way.
- [Open source CMS - The 4th turning](https://btopro.com/pages/item-802d3c36-cd68-4eb7-b45c-761a779c08d5/index.md): A parking lot conversation with a dear friend last night lead to these thoughts of what is the 4th turning when it comes to content web? 1st turning: Static web using standards, but they are emergent
- [About](https://btopro.com/pages/item-87440d77-c8be-4443-86f6-ad665a43538f/index.md): damn near impossible
- [Life](https://btopro.com/pages/item-84f3ef38-edc8-4d5d-be9b-eba6611eeb18/index.md)
- [Finding the edge](https://btopro.com/pages/item-cf16c3d9-b209-43a5-b92a-27bffda4a265/index.md): Toe, heel, toe, heel.. hips open, foot presses toe, rocker back to heel... fall. {get up}. let's do it again. fall.. ...again fall. AGAIN. Find the edge... need to find the edge fall. Get up.. get. U
- [Welcome to the 25-26 season!](https://btopro.com/pages/item-1428b18c-dfcc-498a-86c9-74bb2619b40d/index.md): Hello and welcome to the 2025-26 season of SCYIHA programming! The board changed over June 9th and while I've wanted to say hello, getting programming launched and organized the higher prio
- [Scrimmage feedback 8/16](https://btopro.com/pages/item-19fa5a3a-eb9e-42df-97ba-a5de49726c9b/index.md): Here's a clip from our game this weekend. Watch it a few times, and then see notes below. in zone coverage Coverage in zone to start this clip is solid but could use a few improvements Sam locking
- [Work](https://btopro.com/pages/item-0c02becd-f145-497d-a233-7866dbb6a3ae/index.md)
- [FOSSY25](https://btopro.com/pages/item-cca95c4e-4d2e-433c-8c86-32d9f1749787/index.md): Another year and I'm back in Portland to learn more about community development and management. This year I feel a bit more well equipped for the talks thus far from lessons learned last time. Some w
- [Contact](https://btopro.com/pages/item-9a185c5f-542b-4b53-a531-74dc882752a7/index.md): hax @ psu [dot] edu @btopro - discord @btopro - x @btopro - linkedIn @btopro - mastodon
- [HAX](https://btopro.com/pages/item-07636896-5843-47a7-8cf6-bd7798992831/index.md): We know what you actually care about my thoughts on. (it's nothing but shhh)
- [Benevolent restrictions](https://btopro.com/pages/item-8a167c92-4b83-49d0-b387-78f8bf37ab44/index.md): Hockey is a simple game that is difficult to play. Ice, movement, specialized equipment. But play it without nets and you can't envision how it works. Without lines and it's too easy to defeat. Play
- [Sustainable Impact and Innovation Pipeline](https://btopro.com/pages/item-d21d217e-bead-408f-bd0d-4459cb918914/index.md): Do more with less. It's been the ask of higher education for the last 15 years (at least), and in the age of AI, many think we may actually be able to do more with less, though studies are starting t
- [Building a City](https://btopro.com/pages/item-51064b9d-e04d-4156-8980-3a03da6abd16/index.md): This is a story of the past, leading into the future. When nothing exists, most can't envision what could. When something exists, many still envision that that is how it will always be. A true few ca
- [the many me's](https://btopro.com/pages/item-e041c3c7-f650-48b6-bff5-671346e7a0ad/index.md)
- [No talk of Flying Cars](https://btopro.com/pages/item-b74ea009-29c2-4b4e-8706-f63d9e2f07e9/index.md): I am done with talk of flying cars. Full stop. That's the blog post. Oh... it's supposed to be more... *fine*😬 Shut up and build the future For roughly 11 years, but likely longer, I've expected the

## Optional
- [Search index](https://btopro.com/lunrSearchIndex.json): Lunr corpus for quick full-text retrieval.
- [RSS feed](https://btopro.com/rss.xml): Site updates in RSS format.
- [Atom feed](https://btopro.com/atom.xml): Site updates in Atom format.
- [Sitemap](https://btopro.com/sitemap.xml): URL-level discovery map for the published site.