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Is this website a love letter to the nineties? A regressive design aesthetic prompted by the current widespread proliferation of corporate AI slop? The mid-life crisis of a forty-something techno tinkerer desperately wishing to rekindle the ever-dwindling flame of youth through blatent nostalgia-baiting? All of these. Or none. Maybe I just value the sanctity of content. Ugly, pure, honest-to-God information. No party dress for me. Hold the lipstick.
To be honest, the idea isn't novel. A bunch of us are hiding out on Gemini, or in Gopherspace, or in any or all other myriad smolNet enclaves, jaded by the modern Web experience and seeking sweet, sweet refuge. But why, you may wonder? And from what? The `why` is really quite simple my dear boy: To get away from all you Normies, of course.
As for the `what`:
I hereby guarantee that you, dear Web user, will find none of the above on this website. I don't care who you are, how much of your attention I can consume, what Web browser you're using, what version of what operating system you're running, how long you spend viewing the website, what pages your view most, what you had for breakfast, ad naseum. Quite frankly, it's none of my damn business.
Despite wild protestations from the masses to the contrary, I do not believe that static is a dirty word; a book is filled with "static content". I would hardly call reading a non-interactive activity. The user provides the interaction. Making content serve that role is both unneccessary and distracting, and the modern incarnation of the Web is a direct consequence of this "feature creep".
If you're interested in more information on my design motivations, check out The Why, the What, and the Wherefore. Suffice to say that, for now, the motivation behind all this is really not very important. What is important is that we take back some of what has been lost. People used to make the Web an interesting place to explore.
I have no financial motivation to maintain this website; in fact, I operate it at a loss. But that's OK. Money was never supposed to be the driving force behind what we used to call the Information Superhighway.
This site was handcrafted on an M4 Macbook Air, and is powered by a server running Debian Linux 12. Solid as a rock, sweet as an Apple.