ABOUT THIS COMIC
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"The Publishing Machine" turns the real NITETIME.NET comic workflow into a
garage-built sequence of visible machines.

DJRC types an Ace-and-Jack idea into Codex. The idea expands into artwork and
a self-documenting release containing a transcript, alt text, notes, credits,
metadata, and checksums. Ace and Jack file the completed package in the local
Nitetime Files archive before anything travels.

Syncthing publishes that same release to files.nitetime.net. A separate
automatic Gopher publisher then reads MANIFEST.json, confirms the release is
public, and constructs Gopher's own reading-room material: menus, indexes,
transcript access, and a route back to the complete Files release. Gopher sync
publishes that view at gopher.nitetime.net.

The two services are not competing copies. Files preserves the complete
release; Gopher creates an old-Internet front door from the package that was
already completed and published.