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Remember when websites were a playground for creativity rather than a sales funnel? When you owned your little place on the web, instead of being locked into someone else's walled garden? Some of that magic got lost along the dial-up connection. We’re still writing about that internet, in hopes we can bring some of the good parts back.
In my early webdesign days I got a lot of inspiration from the book "The Webdesign Index". Yes, I see the irony of getting website-inspiration from a book. But hey, at least it also included a CD-ROM!
AUGUST 22, 2026 004AI agents love to have every part of your application at hand: the logic, the templates, the server config, and yes even your database is best kept locally, so the agent can check and update it directly.
AUGUST 15, 2026 003Modern webdevelopment has gotten out of hand, frankly. You don't need hundreds of dependencies and node-modules just to get your `Hello World` up. All you need is an index.php
AUGUST 15, 2026 002Years after Adobe killed the Flash Plugin, ending an era of endless creativity, it is now back, and it even works on mobile!
AUGUST 14, 2026 001Platforms rent you a profile. FTP gave you a folder. Here is why that still matters.
AUGUST 10, 2026