A bold and imaginative critique of the hidden costs of digital life – and a manifesto for a better future . . . At the turn of the millennium, digital technologies seemed to have immense promise...

Web App Manifests are one of the key pieces to making your web app look and feel like a native app.

A voyage through the feels and the deepness by Clusterduck Collective

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.

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.

Collectively authored and backed by the citizens of the Pluriverse. Our Declaration is a revision of John Perry Barlow’s 1996 Declaration for the Independence of Cyberspace (view the diff here). It is also a reaction to Facebook’s recent rebranding as Meta, and to the dominance of large, centralized companies on today’s Internet, those we refer to in the document as the "Closed Fiefdoms of the platform world".

Dieter Rams' Ten Principles for Good Design

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.”

The content on this site has been collected for academic use by design scholars and practitioners. Where possible the original source/publisher of the work has been acknowledged. All copyrighted material is published in good faith, with no aim to profit from its dissemination – was it not the very hope of the authors that their manifestos be shared widely.