This website is a trip down memory lane. I'm not trying to tell you to stop modern web development. This website uses technologies not available at the time the content here is about. It works on mobile (tested in Firefox for Android) but you miss out on the background image.

Directory of Text Only Websites saved in Are.na

An experimental theme for the Hugo static-site generator.

These features can help you use your iPhone more positively.

A single-file blog

Small, minimalistic graphics for powerful ideas in a few words. Typogram is a simple web app to create nice-looking, minimalistic graphics that focus on a short snippet of text for sharing on the web. Typogram allows you to set optional headers and footers to anchor or attribute a text or quote, and provides some minimal customization options for design style.

A minimal, responsive, ready to use blog template, built with Jekyll.

This page is a txt file hosted on Bluesky's AtProto. Yes, that's right. NO HTML, NO CSS, NO JS. JUST PLAIN TEXT. PURE INTERNET.

The fewer requirements we have, the less of a burden these requirements become. The more often we have the same thing every day, the more likely they are to become a requirement. This isn’t a prescription for how to live your life, but just something to consider.

Hand-picked design inspiration, curated daily.

An exclusive membership for web pages weighing less than 1 megabyte.

1kB Club is a list of web pages weighing less than 1 kilobyte (1,024 bytes).

It’s a site by Leo Babauta of Zen Habits. It’s about minimalism, and why it’s important today. It’s about stuff, and how it has come to overwhelm us. It’s about distractions and commitments and a neverending task list. It’s about the culture of more, of bigger, of consumption. It’s about how less is the answer.

I settled on a Fujifilm X-Pro 3, which looks similar to the Leica M cameras. Then, I bought one lens (a Fuji 35mm F2 prime) to go with the camera. The entire kit has an appealing, rangefinder style aesthetic.

The 512KB Club is an exclusive list of web pages weighing less than 512 kilobytes.

Dead Simple Sites curates the most minimal sites on the web.

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

This is a directory of websites that primarily stick with simple, marked up, hyperlinked text. I appreciate these sites because they load quickly, scroll smoothly, spare my battery, are more compact, and lack the usual nonsense that infects many websites.

Flexoki is an inky color scheme for prose and code. Flexoki is designed for reading and writing on digital screens. It is inspired by analog inks and warm shades of paper. Flexoki is minimalistic and high-contrast. The colors are calibrated for legibility and perceptual balance across devices and when switching between light and dark modes.

The modern web is literally Satan and will probably eat your first-born child if we don't do anything about it, and quick! (had to increase the hyperbolism from the other websites; interestingly, the NoJS Club, which until now has arguably been the most radical of *.clubs, does not have much hyperbole, which really is a shame

An elegant icon set by Anja van Staden with more than a thousand icons.

When Dieter Rams said “less but better”, he probably wasn’t thinking about todo lists. Yet, as I stared at three different overcrowded digital task lists a month ago, I realized that’s exactly what I need. I call it Meishi, after the Japanese words for business card.

A minimalist todo app for mindful task management