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What The Stare weighs

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Two lanes, never added together. Tracked is every file committed to the two repositories (this one and the Obsidian vault) — measured back to the first commit out of git history, so the growth curve is exact and retroactive. Disk is everything actually on the drive including what git ignores (node_modules, dist, caches, Raw/); it has no past, only a point per run of npm run storage. Three classes: ours is what this newsroom wrote or compiled, external is what we captured from somebody else, derived is reproducible build output and cache. The sealed compartment is not measured.

Growth — tracked bytes per day

carry-forward: a day with no commit holds the previous day's size

Compiled per day

change in tracked bytes, day over day

A negative day is a deletion or a rewrite, not a measurement error — pruned captures and consolidated drafts both show up here.

Categories — right now

disk walk · tracked and untracked

Disk snapshots

the only lane that sees gitignored bulk · one row per measurement