What is this?

This is the html blog — a blog about the web, written with the aesthetic sensibility of the web circa 1997. We believe in semantic markup, blue underlined links, and the radical idea that content is more important than presentation.

Here we write about web history, HTML nostalgia, the craft of building for the browser, and the enduring beauty of simple documents linked together with hypertext.

Every post on this site could be read with CSS disabled and still make perfect sense. We consider this a feature.

About the Webmaster

Name:     webmaster
Location: the internet
Since:    a long time ago
Status:   still online
Likes:    semantic HTML, RSS feeds, 
          personal websites, web rings
Dislikes: pop-ups, autoplaying video,
          cookie banners, dark patterns

Colophon

This site is built with:

• Next.js (because even nostalgists need good tooling)
• Tailwind CSS (styled to look like no CSS at all)
• EB Garamond for body text (a serif, as nature intended)
• Source Code Pro for monospace elements
• No JavaScript frameworks were harmed in the reading of these posts*

*some JavaScript was used in the making of this site. We are aware of the irony.

Site Map

• / ............ home (all posts)
• /archive ....... post archive with tag filtering
• /about ......... you are here
• /post/[slug] ... individual blog posts