What is the small web? A new crop of platforms are answering algorithmic fatigue with a return to human-curated basics.
The small web is beautiful
A vision for the "small web", small software, and small architectures.
The 49MB Web Page
A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.
An Ode to Links
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
We Need To Rewild The Internet
The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.
A Website To End All Websites | Henry From Online
How to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.
A Website To End All Websites | Henry From Online
How to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.
How the Web Was Lost – James Gleick
This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Webby Tim Berners-Lee with Stephen WittFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 389 pp., $30
Overview
What is Blacksky? Blacksky Algorithms is building the future of self-governable online communities with tools that make complex infrastructure simple to deploy. Most social platforms control what users see, how communities operate, and who gets to feel safe online. Blacksky changes that by providing one-click infrastructure for independent, self-governed digital spaces. Our platform lets communities […]
What We Lost When We Quit Using Crappy Old Web Forums
Old web forums were poorly coded and rough around the edges, but maybe we gave up on them too quickly in the social media era.
Frontend Minimalism in Action: Do More With Less JavaScript | Peter Kröner | webinale Berlin 2026
Self-Hosting on the Dark Web | David Álvarez Rosa
This site is now reachable over Tor as a hidden service, at a .onion address that resolves only inside the Tor network. Tor relays and encrypts your traffic as …
Lexicon Service Docs - at:// pizza thoughts
Riffing on some ways to make network services more legible to humans and machines
Millions of Volunteers Are Keeping the Internet Human. For Now.
We’re never going back to the human internet we had. But we can hope for a better internet than the AI-dominated one that is emerging, writes Sarah Gilbert.
What you can do with AT Protocol - Applied Meteorology
Years of centralized platforms have limited our thinking about what's possible on the web.
Chris Granger - "Is Web3... anything?"
The term “web3” seems pretty fluid and is being used as a label for a bunch of disparate ideas. Given that it’s a decentralized group describing a decentralized movement, that lack of focus isn’t exactly surprising. Almost by definition it’s going to end up being different things to different people.