FABLED.DAY
Remember the internet? One millennial's jaded digital nostalgia.
Untitled by Michal Zelazny
The personal website of Michal Zelazny. Reflections on life, society, technology and the connections between them.
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".
The Slow Web | Jack Cheng
A popular old essay about finding calm and rhythm online.
On Self-Expression: My Quarter Century Of Blogging
It’s with a near certainty and small sense of frustration that I say there was something that came before, but memory issues preclude me having any definitive sense of precisely, or even imprecisely, what it was. All I know is that it existed—or, at least,...
Building a slow web
The internet can feel like it's built for speed.
You join a new service and you're presented with a feed. The name tells you all you need to know. The feed is the actor. You are the thing that is acted upon. You don't control the feed. Your role is
eightyeightthirtyone
This site crawls the links between 88x31s on the Internet. Building a graph of the Internet, one button at a time
special fish
fish are like thoughts and premonitions
Where have all the websites gone? | fromjason.xyz
It feels like all the cool websites from the late 2000s are gone. But maybe we are looking at this the wrong way. Maybe it is us who vanished.
Digital Gardening | Chris Armstrong is miscellanious.
Random thoughts & ideas.
Nicheless | Think. Write away.
Nicheless is a micro-blogging platform for raw, unfiltered thoughts.
Like long form Twitter, minus the status games.
omg.lol: an oasis on the internet - blakewatson.com
If you enjoyed the old web of the 90s and 00s; if you love tinkering with your personal website; or if you just like quirky, fun things on the internet, you will love this.
Click Around, Find Out
2024 is the year of the indie web and the blog. Just like 2023 was. And 2022. And 2021. In fact, how far can we stretch back? Oh you're blogging again? Cute. WELCOME BACK MOTHERFUCKERS.—…
The internet used to be fun | kwon.nyc
Personal website manifestos. I’ve been meaning to write some kind of Important Thinkpiece™ on the glory days of the early internet, but every time I sit down to do it, I find another, better piece that someone else has already written. So for now, here’s a collection of articles that to some degree answer the question “Why have a personal website?” with “Because it’s fun, and the internet used to be fun.”