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Build a garden, not a feed.

Remember the internet? One millennial's jaded digital nostalgia.

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

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

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.

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.

The directory of handmade websites.

Free standard components for building your website.

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 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…

nownownow.com: personal websites with a /now page

On the architecture of blogging

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

All the things people are doing to claw back the 'net from corporations.

An essay on the decline & revival of the personal website.

An exclusive membership for web pages presenting themselves in no more than 250kb.

See what’s growing in the /now Garden

Developers, it’s time for you to choose a side: will you help rid the web of privacy-invading tracking or be complicit in it? What can I do? Remove third-party scripts from Google, Facebook, etc.

A vision for the "small web", small software, and small architectures.