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I keep finding good websites again

Personal sites never actually went away, but for about a decade they stopped turning up. Lately they do, and I think the reasons are mostly boring ones.

By Alex/August 24, 2026/4 min read

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Notebook

Six megabytes for a thousand words

I opened a few news sites with the network panel running. The numbers were worse than I expected, and most of the weight isn’t the article.

By Alex/August 17, 2026/1 min read

Notebook

The whole stack is a folder

Static files, one small server, and a certificate that renews itself. I wrote it down mostly to see how little there is.

By Alex/August 9, 2026/2 min read

Opinion

Nobody reads the cookie banner, including me

The law had a point. The interface it produced taught everyone to click accept without looking, and I’m not sure that’s fixable now.

By Alex/July 30, 2026/1 min read

I keep finding good websites again

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