This is the public repository for The Treadmill — a short story and accompanying website.
The repository contains the source files for the static site generator as well as the text of the story itself.
Making this repository public creates a verifiable record of when the story and site were first created and published.
The Treadmill is speculative fiction exploring the tension between human acceleration and human coordination. You can read the full story and see the final site here:
/src— templates and assets for the static website/story— markdown source of the storyREADME.md— this fileLICENSE-STORY.md— license for the story textLICENSE-CODE.md— license for the website generator code
The story The Treadmill is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).
You may share and adapt the text for non-commercial use, as long as you give appropriate credit and license derivatives under the same terms.
See LICENSE-STORY for full text.
The code powering the static site generator is licensed under a permissive license (MIT) for learning and review purposes.
However, the website design, layout, and all image assets (including AI-generated images) are NOT licensed for reuse or redistribution.
Cloning or rehosting the website as a whole is not permitted.
See LICENSE-CODE for full text.
For questions or collaboration proposals, visit phisch.de.