A MANIFESTO FOR THE HUMAN WEB
A defence of personal sites, readable source, chosen neighbours and the right to make something online without turning it into a platform.
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EDITORIAL CHANNEL // LOW VOLUME, HIGH INTENT
FIELDLOG
Essays, build records and dispatches from a hand-built corner of the web. No content calendar. No filler. Nothing published just to keep the feed warm.
▸ EDITORIAL POLICY
SMALL ON PURPOSE
This is a publication index, not a performance dashboard. Finished work stays visible; empty promises and template posts do not.
The original blog page contained several convincing-looking posts that did not exist. That is the wrong kind of retro. The old web was allowed to be unfinished, but its links still meant something.
This log now points only to material you can actually open: one long-form essay, two technical or curatorial records, an interactive museum and the living project catalogue.
01Long-form essay
02Field records
01Interactive exhibit
00Dead post links
▸ PUBLIC RECORD
TRANSMISSIONS
Search by title, subject or tag. Filters operate locally; nothing you type leaves the page.
05 records visiblenewest signal first
DEAD INTERFACE
A working museum of obsolete interaction: desktop metaphors, assistants, modal errors, early commerce, personal homepages and skeuomorphic media.
BUILD NOTES
Six browser projects opened at the seams: design intent, implementation choices, lessons learned, known debt and the next useful revision.
SIGNAL ARCHIVE
Fourteen human-tuned links from the web beneath the feed: small search engines, personal-web communities, design archaeology and stubborn infrastructure.
THE CABINET
The main catalogue of games, utilities, simulations, false desktops, fiction and recovered browser objects—searchable, sortable and still expanding.
NO MATCHING TRANSMISSION // TRY A DIFFERENT SIGNAL
▸ WORKING QUEUE
NOT YET PUBLISHED
Subjects on the bench, shown honestly as notes rather than dressed up as finished posts.
DRAFT MEMORY
THE NEXT FEW THINGS- What old interfaces teach us about trust notes
- Making browser toys without a build chain outline
- The small web as an architecture fragments