Every article on this site is now also served as an RFC-style plain text document at /doc/:slug.txt, alongside the existing HTML and raw Markdown (/doc/:slug.md) versions.

$ curl -s https://octa.page/doc/timezone-propagation-flow.txt | head -6
Octa Engineering Notes                                   Christian Elías
Request for Comments: OCTA-20                                  octa.page
Category: Informational                                        June 2026


     Timezone Propagation: How IANA Changes Reach Your Application

This site already hosts two articles about IPoAC and a real Internet Draft submitted to the IETF, so the format is on brand rather than a random gimmick.

Format

  • Header: classic two-column RFC header. The RFC number is the article’s chronological position across the whole notebook — the first published entry is OCTA-1. This also keeps the header inside 72 columns, which long slugs would not.
  • Abstract: the frontmatter description, verbatim.
  • Status of This Memo: fixed IETF boilerplate, linking the canonical HTML version and the .md source.
  • Body: 72-column prose with 3-space indent, 1. / 1.1. numbered sections from H2/H3, o bullets, code blocks verbatim.
  • References: external links in the prose become label [n] markers, with URLs accumulated into a numbered References section at the end.
  • Footer: Author — Informational — [Page 1].

Implementation

One static endpoint, src/pages/doc/[slug].txt.ts, ~170 lines, no new dependencies. Instead of using marked’s HTML renderer (already a dependency for the RSS feed), the endpoint walks marked.lexer() tokens directly and emits text: headings pick up section numbers, inline links mutate a shared refs array, and a 5-line word-wrapper handles the 72-column constraint. getStaticPaths collects all entries across collections and sorts by date to assign the OCTA number.

HTML article pages advertise both alternates:

<link rel="alternate" type="text/markdown" href=".../doc/slug.md">
<link rel="alternate" type="text/plain" title="RFC-style plain text" href=".../doc/slug.txt">

Deliberately skipped: tables and raw HTML pass through verbatim, and real RFC pagination (58-line pages, form feeds, per-page [Page N] footers) is deferred until the joke proves it deserves it.