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The small web
Personal sites, slow tools and owning the place your work lives.
- EssayLow Tide, issue 265 Rooms, not feeds Why I finally gave ten years of writing one address — and what I noticed moving in.
- ThreadThread Things I learned moving 312 posts into one home I just finished moving ten years of writing into one site. 312 pieces. A few things I learned, in case you are thinking about it.
- EpisodeSlow Signals, episode 45 Small websites, big lives Priya Natarajan has designed personal sites for poets, bakers and one retired lighthouse keeper. Why a home on the web still matters, and what makes a small site feel like a person.
- EssayLow Tide, issue 259 Ten years, four platforms, one me An inventory of a decade of writing in public, and why I stopped renting.
- TalkInkwell, Porto Own your archive Writers publish everywhere and keep nothing. A practical talk about gathering ten years of scattered work into one home you control — and why being findable is a form of care for your readers.
- ThreadThread The year in small websites My favourite thing this year: friends who quietly started personal sites.
- TalkSmall Web Day, Online The slow web isn't nostalgia Personal websites are not a retro hobby. They are the most durable, findable and humane way to publish — and they are easier to own than ever.
- EssayLow Tide, issue 188 Against the infinite scroll A page should end. When it does, you get to decide what happens next.
Low Tide
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