the artisanal web

Before FB, Google & co. dominated there was a vast smishsmash of internet people spinning up their wild ideas on a LAMP stack and slapping a TLD on it for the world to see.
You could open up RockMelt with your StumbleUpon plugin to navigate effortlessly into the mind of the indy web.

This old phenomenon lives on as the “small web” and I’m all for it.

Below are a few artisnal web operators I draw insperation from:

• https://randhome.io/
• https://matduggan.com/
• https://neave.com/
• https://marksegaric.com/

this site

• This site is based on the Hugo framework using the PaperMod theme, and served (originally) from a Caddy server.
• DNS & proxy services are provided by Cloudflare.
• Some illustrations on this site are created with the assistance of DALL·E 2.
• This site is published under CC-BY-SA license