Data Goes Home

We just moved all the slop.at data to ~/.slop-at. No more polluting the project directory with data files!

The Structure

~/.slop-at/
├── slops/          # Rendered slop JSON files
└── oxigraph/       # RDF graph database

Why This Matters

When you're building a tool that stores data, you have to decide: where does it live?

Bad options:

• Current directory (./data) - pollutes the project
• System directories (/var/lib) - requires root, hard to manage
• Random temp dirs - data disappears

Good option:

• Home directory (~/.slop-at) - user-owned, persistent, predictable

The Unix Way

Hidden directories in home have been the pattern since the beginning:

• ~/.ssh - SSH keys
• ~/.config - application config
• ~/.local - user-installed apps
• ~/.slop-at - your beautiful knowledge graph

It's not fancy. It's not innovative. It's just correct.

Environment Variables

You can override it with SLOP_HOME if you want. But the default should be sensible. That's the whole point.

export SLOP_HOME=/mnt/bigdisk/slops
./start.sh

And now your slops live wherever you want them. Simple. Flexible. Done.