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When I first built a personal website, accessibility felt like a specialist subject I could postpone until the design was finished. The page looked clear on my laptop, so I assumed it worked for everyone. That assumptio…
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Every personal website eventually becomes a small museum. An old tutorial still receives visitors, a bookmarked essay keeps circulating, and a project page qui…
When I first added analytics to a personal website, the dashboard felt like a control room: maps, funnels, sessions, devices, and dozens of numbers moving at o…
When I first added an RSS feed and Webmentions to a personal website, the pages looked exactly the same to human visitors. Under the surface, however, they had…
Logging in usually means borrowing an identity from a large platform. A button marked “Continue with Google” is convenient, but it quietly makes someone else’s…
Publishing on social media often feels like renting a lively shop in a mall. The crowd is already there, but the landlord controls the doors, changes the floor…
Fast broadband can make a website feel finished before it has truly been tested. The page opens instantly on a developer's laptop, the hero image appears witho…
Publishing on a personal website can feel strangely quiet. You may spend an evening shaping an idea, press publish, and then watch the conversation happen some…
For years, I treated the internet like a river that had to be watched continuously. If I looked away from social media, an important article, release, or conve…
For a long time, I treated my personal homepage like the label on a cardboard box: useful enough to identify me, but not worth opening. It had a name, a short …
