







A vision for the "small web", small software, and small architectures.
How the small web is creating an anti-slop internet
What is the small web? A new crop of platforms are answering algorithmic fatigue with a return to human-curated basics.


The Magic of Small Databases
Notes on personal libraries, collections and small indexes on the web
The Website Specification
A platform-agnostic, full specification of the technical features a good website should have. Built in the open under an MIT licence.


An Ode to Links
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
Web Design in 4 minutes
Learn the basics of web design in 4 minutes with this interactive tutorial.


Frontend Minimalism in Action: Do More With Less JavaScript | Peter Kröner | webinale Berlin 2026
All you need is links
When Tim Berners Lee talks about how he designed the web, he uses an analogy from physics, describing his process as a quest to find “fundamental laws” which can generate a desired system:

honox - npmx
**HonoX** is a simple and fast meta-framework for creating full-stack websites or Web APIs - (formerly _[Sonik](https://github.com/sonikjs/sonik)_). It stands on the shoulders of giants; built on [Hono](https://hono.dev/), [Vite](https://vitejs.dev/), and

The 49MB Web Page
A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.

Water.css
A drop-in collection of CSS styles to make simple websites like this just a little bit nicer.
