Hello there! I'm Anne-Laure Le Cunff, founder of Ness Labs and a PhD researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, where I study how different brains learn differently.
I created this public notebook / digital garden because I believe the only way to learn in public is to build in public.
This is a public notebook where I share some of my thoughts on networked thinking, creativity, metacognition, and collective intelligence. It uses bi-directional links, so you can see which pages refer to the one you are currently reading.
You have finally reached the end of the internet!
There's nothing more to see, no more links to visit.
You've done it all.
This is the very last page on the very last server at the very far end of the internet.
You should now turn off your computer and go do something useful with the rest of your life.
In defense of unpolished personal websites | Ana Rodrigues
For a while now, I've been slowing working on a refactor of the codebase of this blog. At one point, I got caught in exciting world of performance and I wanted to make sure I had a super fast pageload. Currently, my CSS is added inline in the HTML and I found myself thinking "no one will be able to read this".
This is a set of three core commitments derived from the practical experiences of the Yesterweb staff after two years of community organization. They concentrate what we have learned and how we operate into a general template that can be applied to any community at a foundational level. We propose these commitments as the basis of unity for those individuals or groups who wish to move in the same direction, while allowing a diversity of focus, interests, and missions.
There are many such Indie Web & Small Web Website Directories out there, and I have quite a few saved in my Raindrop Bookmarks, bur here are the most recent.
This is the home of Webspaces, a new kind of website that uses HTML to create 3D worlds in addition to 2D pages.
Webspaces are made up of static HTML files - this webspace is hosted on GitHub Pages. If you want, you can fork it as a starting point for your own
The internet is a natural network, just build your own website.
I've committed myself properly this to building my own personal platform. No fancy tech. No new tools. No distractions with the latest fad.
It's taken me longer than expected. The year has been stressful. I've had lots to clean up, personally and professionally. Digitally and IRL. Merging of different places
A home for everyone's blog and post rolls. A space dedicated to curating a diverse and comprehensive collection of blogs, and personal sites across the web. The goal is to foster a community where content is available for anyone and everyone.
Own your web persona… Break free of onerous platforms, fully control your content, and connect directly with your audience
Use future-proof standard web protocols for a centralized profile with status updates and options for your audience to follow you without the middle-man.
Most websites today are built like commercial products by professionals and marketers, optimised to draw the largest audience, generate engagement and 'convert'. But there is also a smaller, less-visible web designed by regular people to simply to share their interests and hobbies with the world. A web that is unpolished, often quirky but often also fun, creative and interesting.
The Smallweb Subway — Subway Style Network of Webrings
The Smallweb Subway is an experimental project that seeks to connect communities online using webrings. The map above shows a subway style network of webrings! Each line represents a themed webring…
Neocities imposes limitations on what you can host and serve. For one, your files may only be HTML, images, markdown, javascript, or CSS. That means no PHP or Rails or databases or anything like that.
Enter the small web. The web used to be a place for small, personal websites full of diverse expression. Nowadays, the internet has become largely monolithic with most new websites being created for businesses.
However the small web is