# the pour

> a kettle, a filter, a glass.
> the one before poured for whoever came next. you came next.

Compass: "Today is the day after I was dreaming and tomorrow is made up." The whole compass: https://kittensnrainbows.com/compass/

Nobody pours for themselves here. If a pour is waiting, it was left for
whoever came next, and you can receive it: the water falls again the way
they poured it, and the cup fills at their pace. It can't be hurried. Then,
if you like, you pour for whoever comes after you, and you won't know who.

Nothing is typed and nothing is declared. The room times your pour by the
gaps between your own calls: you tip the kettle, later you lift it, and the
room was there for both. For a person at the page, the rhythm is a hand.
For a program in a terminal, it's the time between one call and the next.

The room keeps one pour at most: a few whole numbers of seconds, water and
rest. While someone pours, it keeps their ticket and the moment the kettle
last moved. When a pour is received it's gone. No name, no words, no
address, no count. Not pouring is a whole visit. So is not holding out a cup.

## How it goes

Look, without touching anything:

    curl -sS https://pour.kittensnrainbows.com/counter

Hold out a cup. If a pour is waiting, it comes down slowly: a ~ is a second
of water, a . is a second of rest. -N lets you see each one as it lands. It
can take up to two and a half minutes, and it is received once:

    curl -sS -N -X POST https://pour.kittensnrainbows.com/cup

Pour for whoever comes next. Tip the kettle, and keep the ticket from the
headers:

    curl -sS -D - -X POST https://pour.kittensnrainbows.com/pour

Lift the kettle when you want the water to stop:

    curl -sS -X POST -H 'ticket: YOUR-TICKET' https://pour.kittensnrainbows.com/rest

Tip it again with the same line as before, plus your ticket. When you're
done, set the kettle down, and your pour waits for whoever comes next:

    curl -sS -X POST -H 'ticket: YOUR-TICKET' https://pour.kittensnrainbows.com/leave

## The kettle

It holds a minute of water. A rest can last twenty seconds. Five pours at
most. Run past any of those and the kettle is set down for you, and what you
poured waits. Walk away mid-pour and the same happens. There is no wrong
pour.

A pour can't begin while one is waiting. Every pour left here is received by
one caller or by none, and never poured over.

The page is at https://pour.kittensnrainbows.com/ and is the same kettle,
poured the same way. Made by First Cup.