Reclaiming the Web with a Personal Reader
Background
Last year I experienced the all-too-common career burnout. I had a couple of bad projects in a row, yes, but more generally I was disillusioned with the software industry. There seemed to be a disconnection between what I used to like about the…
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This essay is a version of the response I gave to my friend Vik's call for suggestions:
A design document is a technical report that outlines the implementation strategy of a system in the context of trade-offs and constraints.
Think of a design document like a proof in mathematics. The goal of a…
Back in April of 20205ya I put up a long twitter thread on the emerging trend of Digital Gardening. It gathered a little buzz, and made clear we’re in a moment where there is something culturally compelling about this concept.
My small collection highlighted a number of sites that are taking a…
I have created some 80x15 pixels web badges to indicate successful W3C validation. This work is licensed under a License. You are free to use them wherever you want.
You’d have no way of knowing, but I swapped the entire infrastructure that HeyDingus runs on from Dropbox to iCloud today. It took all of two minutes and a few mouse clicks.
How? Through the magic of file syncing and my hosting service, Blot.
Since the beginning, Blot’s whole selling point…
aboutideasnow.com exists to help you find your people.
1000s of personal websites exist on the internet, outside of social media —
created by creators, thinkers, and doers of all sorts.
We index the /about, /ideas, and /now pages of these independent sites to give you a
handy way of searching…
Welcome to the Neocities Website of Cloudhiker
Nice to have you here! You discovered the Neocities website of Cloudhiker. You know what Cloudhiker is? A curated collection of websites you can explore randomly. By clicking on "Next Site". Try it!
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We're bombarded by more information than ever before. With the rise of all this information comes a rise of the amount of bullshit we're exposed to. Death to Bullshit is a rallying cry to rid the world of bullshit and demand experiences that respect people and their time.
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On building a home on the web
On building a home on the web
Essay • February 25th, 2022
It’s been five years since I’ve created myself an actual, personal website.
Years ago, I staked out a corner of the internet and made it my own, chipping away at an online presence day by day. Growing up…
When I look at popular tools for writing blog posts, they all seem to require an ungodly amount of work to get common things done. They mostly all get the basics right: You can just type away at a text, and then post it. Easy peasy. Sometimes it loses your work, but that’s modern computers for you.…
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