Bookmarks
A curated collection of links, articles, and resources I've found worth sharing. Browse by topic using the tags below, or follow along via RSS.
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The Internet Is About to Get Weird Again
I’m all for more small scale web projects being created this year. More cool services like omg.lol is what the Web needs!
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Ashton
The first proposal for the world wide web was written in March 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee. The idea was to create a web of hypertext documents which could be viewed by anyone with a computer and a browser made specifically for viewing things in this web.
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Why Personal Websites are Important | Chuck Carroll
Your website should be the primary place where all of the stuff you create goes. It should be THE place for people to find and communicate with you.
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The Web is Fantastic
The real web, the small web, the indie web is amazing. Don't give Facebook and the rest of these clowns your content. Don't give them the time or your attention. Get a blog, a website, a Mastodon account, something you control, and share links to cool things you find. Make a list of your favourite blogs or websites or photos of cats. Write about a pizza you had that was delicious. Share a recipe. Go down a rabbit hole for hours on end adding weird stuff to your site. Just do it somewhere you control because the real web is fantastic.
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Patterns for Personal Web Sites
Patterns for creating personal web sites. Last updated in 2009, a lot of the page still rings true.
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A Linux evening
The author, dkozel, never came back to answer. I imagine they typed the solution on a 40% keyboard featuring unmarked keys and then rolled into the sunset on a Segway for which they had compiled the kernel themselves. Completely oblivious of their awesomeness and of how many people would later find solace in their prose.
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Let us forget that the internet exists.
Let us forget that the internet exists
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Choosing a Green Web Host
I’ve always been interested in green web hosting but it seems difficult to determine whether or not a host really is “green”…
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My complete blogging workflow | Michael Harley
I love reading about other peoples workflows. Michael provides great detail into his, with a similar tech stack. I almost want to try hosting my site on a VPS again. The front matter extension sounds like a great addition as I’m not currently populating time attributes to my posts and this causes issues with my feeds when I post multiple times a day!
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Please, Expose your RSS
Expose your RSS feed. I have a link up the top, and down below.
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blakewatson.com – omg.lol: an oasis on the internet
omg.lol is a gateway into the fun side of the web. It is one of many places on the modern web doing things right.
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I hate work. — Joan Westenberg
If given the choice, I would gladly banish it forever. Given the choice, I’d spend hours leisurely lounging by the pool, engrossed in Agatha Christie novels, sipping on ice-cold Diet Coke until noon.
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Why are drive-thru menus so hard to read?
I, too, am terrorised by the modern drive-thru experience. Unless I've planned ahead of visiting, I'll default to my standard order, missing out on any specials or deals.
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The Village Effect of the Greater Web
The corporate web is fucking up, big time. Except for perhaps TikTok (give it time), users have retreated to the DMs à la the "cozy web."
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What to Blog About When You Don’t Know What to Blog About
Here’s an interesting thing someone else has to say. Here’s my take on it. This is what I’ve been reading/watching/listening to recently.
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Paying tribute to the web with View Source
Being able to view source on a web page back in the day was a great learning tool for myself and many others. Still is, that is why I don’t bother with minification to ensure my source is readable by anyone who is curious
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How Gaming Rigs Grew Up to Become Battle Stations
How much time do you spend setting up your space rather than using it?
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The Internet of ghosts
If you wanted to, you could peer into a user’s hard drive – this was the fascinating part. When you found a song you’d long forgotten, or a rare b-side you never even knew existed, you could peruse the rest of the user’s music library and sample their tastes.
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Barriers to a more social IndieWeb – Tracy Durnell
Blogging needs a different set of social norms than are in play on social media sites. Communication between websites faces many of the same social challenges as social media silos do, but adds additional impediments with technical hurdles and design differences.
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Incredible Doom
A new comic series about finding connections in the wilds of the early web.