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Tiny-web speed sermon: squeeze the page under one TCP packet and make every byte count.

AWK is still cool: a compact little language for slicing text, making reports, and doing useful command-line data magic.

Tailscale explains NAT traversal with UDP hole punching, STUN, DERP, WireGuard, QUIC/WebRTC, and port mapping.

systemd won. cope harder, init script enjoyers.

A list with the energy of someone replacing half your computer setup with smaller, stranger things.

Solaria's personal guide to adding a theme switcher, for giving one hand-coded site multiple moods.

Solaria shows no-JS filtering with radio buttons, classes, :checked, :has(), and CSS selectors.

Rich Hickey draws a clean line between simple and easy, then quietly ruins half your architectural opinions.

Sam Rose's site, full of visual interactive explainers about software and systems.

Tiny etiquette with a hard stare: say the thing, skip the ceremony.

The web reduced until only the bones remain, then reduced a little more for moral reasons.

A practical love letter to writing HTML carefully, semantically, and without turning the page into soup.
Also main page has a lovely lofi radio

Web advice delivered like a slap on the desk: stop summoning machinery and write the page.

A filing cabinet for your whole life, with the calm severity of someone who has finally defeated folder chaos.

Josh Comeau explains Flexbox with interactive demos that make the weird parts finally click.

The HTML Standard is surprisingly readable, not some forbidden tech scroll guarded by browser wizards.

Old-school Unix grumpiness with a clean moral spine: complexity is the enemy, taste is a weapon.

Tim Berners-Lee's reminder that URLs are infrastructure, not confetti. Every broken link is a tiny protocol betrayal.

Ben Hoyt on the small web: less algorithmic sludge, more handmade corners with a human pulse.

A reminder about old days on the web - when browser compatibility was the hard feature to add.

This article inspired me to start this site in plain HTML. But "HTML is unpleasant to write", so I switched to Markdown.

A deep dive into rendering images as ASCII, which is both ancient terminal magic and modern browser craft.

Best practices for building scalable, and maintainable cloud-native applications.