rhythmus

Proposal for a lightweight, database-less, general purpose, name-based file management app

First draft, Easter Sunday 2014

In line with current trends toward lean and simple software solutions reviving and repurposing long-established standards (open plain text vs proprietary rich text formats; file-based static site generators vs bloated database-driven CMSs), the present proposal inquires into a method (and its application) to device a lightweight, general-purpose solution for small-scale digital asset management.

No database is to be used, there shall be no external dependencies, all information carriers should be self-containing, and everything would be file-based. The software would build on a (yet to be established) convention of file naming, which would store metadata for arbitrary files inside the file name, advancing its portability across platforms.

Put as a — somewhat far-fetched — YC-style one-liner pitch: this proposal is about *

rhythmus

@mixin makecircle($method) {
  // ? $height: getvalue(height).this;
  // ? $width: getvalue(width).this;
  @if ($method == area) {
    // using https://github.com/scottkellum/Sassy-math to do the math
    $radius: sqrt(($height * $width)/pi());
    @include border-radius($radius);
  }
    height: $radius*2;
    width:  $radius*2;