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The Indie Web Is Not Dead
Personal sites are having a quiet resurgence. The tools got better, the platforms got worse, and some people noticed.
May 2026
AI That Generates UI From Napkin Sketches
Point your phone at a rough wireframe. Get working HTML. The output is actually good enough to show a client.
May 2026
Websites That Refuse to Be Apps
A small genre of sites that are making a point out of staying weird. No downloads, no accounts, no dark patterns.
April 2026
An AI Tool That Confidently Does the Wrong Thing
The demo is impressive. The output, once you look closely, is a polished disaster. A case study in plausible-looking nonsense.
April 2026
The People Still Making Flash Games in 2026
Flash died. The community didn't. There's a whole ecosystem of tools, emulators, and very dedicated people keeping it alive.
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How the Internet Discovered Liminal Spaces
It started with a single Tumblr post in 2012 and ended up becoming one of the internet's most recognizable aesthetic movements. A journey through empty malls, SCP Foundation, the Backrooms, and whatever it says about us that we find all this comforting.
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The Website That Teaches You Color Theory by Playing
Color theory has always been taught through lectures and diagrams. This site makes you learn it the way you'd learn to ride a bike.
January 2026
The Dark Pattern Museum
A curated archive of manipulative UI, presented with the detachment of a natural history exhibit. More educational than any design ethics course.
January 2026
Every Noise at Once and Its Cousins
The best map of music genres on the internet, and the small ecosystem of similar tools that have grown up around it.
February 2026
The People Building Personal CRMs
A growing community of people who maintain detailed databases of their human relationships. Obsessive? Definitely. But the reasons are more interesting than you'd expect.
February 2026
The Second Life of RSS
RSS was declared dead in 2013. It ignored the announcement. A look at who kept using it, why they were right, and the tools that made it good again.
March 2026AI That Generates UI From Napkin Sketches
Point your phone at a rough wireframe and get working HTML. The output is actually good enough to show a client.
May 2026Latest digest
All issues →Built as an art project in 2019, inexplicably still running. Thousands of anonymous cursors drift around a blank white page. It is both unsettling and oddly peaceful.
ArtAn article that is a list of articles that are lists of other articles. It goes several layers deep. Nobody seems entirely sure why it exists or who maintains it.
WikipediaSomeone spent years archiving and indexing old Geocities pages so you can full-text search them. The results are either touching or horrifying depending on your tolerance for early-2000s HTML.
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The Indie Web Map
Webmentions, ActivityPub, personal sites, web rings, Neocities. The whole ecosystem, mapped.
Internet Subcultures: A Field Guide
Eight corners of the internet explained without condescension. Origins, current homes, why they matter.