Kwon.nyc https://kwon.nyc/ Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sun, 02 Aug 2026 20:56:08 +0000 Digital Friction Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Looking at the Small Web Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400 The Boring Internet Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400 to the people of the internet Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400 When I started building websites... Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Keep the Internet Weird Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0500 A Vision For The Web Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0500 A website to destroy all websites. Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0500 About the Outer Web Navicomputer Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0500 Guidelines for a smolweb Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0500 how to use the internet again: a curriculum Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0500 Manifesto: A call for individuals to take back rights and control of the web Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0500 The Slow Web Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0500 Internet est mort. Voici comment le ressusciter. (The internet is dead. Here's how to resurrect it.) Wed, 26 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0500 A love letter to my website Sat, 24 May 2025 00:00:00 -0400 Bringing back the minimal web Sat, 24 May 2025 00:00:00 -0400 How to make a website for your creative work Sat, 24 May 2025 00:00:00 -0400 In Praise of Links Sat, 24 May 2025 00:00:00 -0400 Inside the dark forests of the internet Sat, 24 May 2025 00:00:00 -0400 Looking for humanness in the world wide social Sat, 24 May 2025 00:00:00 -0400 The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet Sat, 24 May 2025 00:00:00 -0400 <p>Influential essay by the founder of Kickstarter</p> The Internet Is About to Get Weird Again Sat, 24 May 2025 00:00:00 -0400 the low tech manifesto Sat, 24 May 2025 00:00:00 -0400 The Web Renaissance takes off Sat, 24 May 2025 00:00:00 -0400 The Web We Lost Sat, 24 May 2025 00:00:00 -0400 This is Not My Side Hustle Sat, 24 May 2025 00:00:00 -0400 Unplatform: The definitive guide for escaping social media (and joining the indie web.) Sat, 24 May 2025 00:00:00 -0400 We Need To Rewild The Internet Sat, 24 May 2025 00:00:00 -0400 We Should Replace Facebook With Personal Websites Sat, 24 May 2025 00:00:00 -0400 What Is To Be Done? A Manifesto To Return To Web 1.5 Sat, 24 May 2025 00:00:00 -0400 You should have a website Sat, 24 May 2025 00:00:00 -0400 Your Site Is a Home Sat, 24 May 2025 00:00:00 -0400 Our Online Homes Need Infastructure Mon, 31 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0400 There is no ‘Nice’ Web. Yet Wed, 26 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0400 Making the Web Fun Again Sat, 22 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0400 A Handmade Web Sun, 02 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0500 Against the dark forest Sun, 02 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0500 Bix's story of his internet Sun, 02 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0500 <p>Bix&rsquo;s story of his internet</p> Dead Internet Souls Sun, 02 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0500 Making space for a handmade web Sun, 02 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0500 Reweirding* the Web Sun, 02 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0500 The Calm Web: A Solution to Our Scary and Divisive Online World Sun, 02 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0500 The Extended Internet Universe Sun, 02 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0500 The Internet is (not) broken Sun, 02 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0500 The Internet is a Series of Webs Sun, 02 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0500 The Revenge of the Home Page Sun, 02 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0500 Web of the People Sun, 02 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0500 Why you should have a website Sun, 02 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0500 Writing down what I know Sun, 02 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0500 404 Page Not Found Mon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 -0400 Internet manifesto Mon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 -0400 Is the internet dead? Are we? Mon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 -0400 Let The Internet Be Grimy Mon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 -0400 Manifesto for a Humane Web Mon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 -0400 Save the Web by Being Nice Mon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 -0400 The Impersonal Web Mon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 -0400 The Internet Is Like a City (But Not in the Way You'd Think) Mon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 -0400 The Internet Isn’t Meant To Be So Small Mon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 -0400 The life and times of a personal website Mon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 -0400 This Page is Designed to Last Mon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 -0400 We can have a different web Mon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 -0400 What is the Web Revival? Mon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 -0400 Blogs are cool, actually Mon, 29 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0400 On content creation and personal web Mon, 29 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0400 The "IndieWeb" feels like coming home Mon, 29 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0400 The Analog Web Mon, 29 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0400 You don't have to be a “content creator” to have a website. Mon, 29 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0400 Blog Bookmark Rot Sun, 03 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500 Blogs Are Dead. Long Live Blogs! Sun, 03 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500 Desktops.zip - Some thoughts on websites that look like desktops Sun, 03 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500 Digital Homes and Neighborhoods Sun, 03 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500 Do You Remember the Internet Before Social Media? Sun, 03 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500 Game of Content Sun, 03 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500 Into the Personal Website-Verse Sun, 03 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500 L'informatique, c'était mieux avant (Computing was better before) Sun, 03 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500 Let Us Build a New Web Sun, 03 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500 Reviving Ye Olde Personal Home Page Sun, 03 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500 Ruminating on Walled Gardens Sun, 03 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500 shite: static sites from shell Sun, 03 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500 Social Websites Sun, 03 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500 Splitting the Web Sun, 03 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500 Surfing the Old Web Sun, 03 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500 The Internet Changed My Life Sun, 03 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500 The Web is Fantastic Sun, 03 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500 Where have all the websites gone? Sun, 03 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500 Why Personal Blogging Still Rules Sun, 03 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500 Click around, find out Sun, 11 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0500 Computers: An Invocation for Soft Tech Sun, 11 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0500 I Love the Web Sun, 11 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0500 i really love the (hipster) internet Sun, 11 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0500 My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be? Sun, 11 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0500 Poor man's web Sun, 11 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0500 Rediscovering the Old Internet Vibe Sun, 11 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0500 Refuge in blogs and the IndieWeb Sun, 11 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0500 The Bullshit Web Sun, 11 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0500 The old internet Sun, 11 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0500 The web is yours Sun, 11 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0500 a personal manifesto Thu, 04 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0500 Everyone Should Blog, And That Includes You Thu, 04 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0500 <p>&ldquo;i want there to be a diverse range of the human experience documented online&rdquo;</p> It’s Time to Get Personal Thu, 04 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0500 Make your own independent website Thu, 04 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0500 My website as a home Thu, 04 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0500 Please for the love of Blarg, Start a Blog Thu, 04 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0500 The Web Revival Thu, 04 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0500 Why the Indie Web movement is so important Thu, 04 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0500 Taking an Internet Walk Sun, 12 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0500 tiny internets Sun, 12 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0500 You Should Have a Website Sun, 12 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0500 Notes on the small web Tue, 24 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0400 Soft tech Tue, 24 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0400 <p>A poem on what the internet could be&hellip;</p> The Quiet Web Tue, 24 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0400 How to fix the internet Thu, 19 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0400 <p>&ldquo;We need to learn to appreciate areas of the internet that are small, like a new Mastodon server or Discord or blog. We need to trust in the power of &lsquo;1,000 true fans&rsquo; over cheaply amassed millions.&rdquo;</p> Social Internet Is Dead. Get Over It. Wed, 18 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0400 <p>More about the demise of social media than the value of personal websites, but still an important piece of the discourse</p> Build your own website! Mon, 16 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0400 The Importance of Personal Websites Mon, 16 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0400 <p>The author describes some pros and cons of personal websites and how they&rsquo;ve set theirs up</p> Exploring the Personal Web Sat, 30 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0400 <p>Includes a great meta-list of Collectives and Projects for identifying other personal websites</p> My 20th anniversary of blogging! Sat, 30 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0400 <p>&ldquo;People are looking for other people, not performances of personas, and a personal blog is a more likely place to find that than social media these days.&rdquo;</p> why the web? Sat, 30 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0400 <p>&ldquo;The web will reflect humanity if we put our lives online.&rdquo;</p> Why you should have a blog (and write in it) Sat, 30 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0400 <p>I like the prompts for what to write</p> “Tom had us all doing front-end web development”: a nostalgic (re)imagining of Myspace Tue, 12 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0400 <p>Fascinating academic paper studying shifts in Twitter discourse surrounding MySpace, with a callout for girls and BIPOC youth who were able to learn basic coding and other technical skills via their pages</p> A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden Tue, 12 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0400 <p>While not the same as personal blogs, digital gardens are adjacent, and lately it feels like adoption within the personal website-verse is increasing. This is a solid history (with illustrations!) and detailed exposition on the concept.</p> About me (localghost) Tue, 12 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0400 <p>&ldquo;Like many other people in the early 00s, I learnt to build websites by clicking View Source, copying bits I liked, then changing them slightly&rdquo;</p> About this website Tue, 12 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0400 <p>&ldquo;I grew up on the Internet in a time when social media meant writing comments on other people’s hand-built blogs.&rdquo;</p> At home on the internet Tue, 12 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0400 <p>&ldquo;Personally, I just want a place I can put my stuff online again – without advertising, without engagement gaming, without endless notifications, without audience-building acrobatics.&rdquo;</p> Blogging is alive and well Tue, 12 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0400 <p>Optimism that we&rsquo;ll continue to see a resurgence of personal websites</p> Bring back personal blogging Tue, 12 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0400 <p>&ldquo;The personal blog built the internet, and maybe it can fix it.&rdquo;</p> Building a Digital Homestead, Bit by Brick Tue, 12 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0400 <p>&ldquo;A personal site, or a blog, is more than just a collection of writing. It’s a kind of place - something that feels like home among the streams.&rdquo;</p> Death to Bullshit Tue, 12 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0400 <p>&ldquo;&hellip;we as creators have a decision to make: do we want to be part of the 90% of noise out there, or do we want to be part of the 10% of signal?&rdquo;</p> E/N (Everything/Nothing) Tue, 12 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0400 <p>The everything/nothing concept never quite took off the way &ldquo;blogs&rdquo; or &ldquo;digital gardens&rdquo; have, but I think it&rsquo;s an important piece of web history and gets at the core of why personal websites are important even if it feels like no one else cares about yours except you</p> Early Web Design Helped a Generation Express Themselves Online. How Do We Capture That Feeling Again? Tue, 12 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0400 <p>This article focuses on design aspects of early websites and the creativity unlocked by that environment</p> Eight years of blogging Tue, 12 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0400 <p>&ldquo;Having a little space on the Web where you can do whatever the heck you want is fun. Using it for learning new skills and teaching others is fun. Exchanging links with others is fun!&rdquo;</p> envisioning my homepage as an online therapeutic space Tue, 12 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0400 <p>Winnie has written a lot about her presence on the web, why she writes, and personal websites in general.</p> Every person on the planet should have their own website Tue, 12 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0400 <p>Short and to the point</p> Homesteading 2014 Tue, 12 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0400 <p>&ldquo;In light of the noisy, fragmented internet, I want a unified place for myself—the internet version of a quiet, cluttered cottage in the country.&rdquo;</p> How I experience web today Tue, 12 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0400 <p>A painfully familiar parody that shows everything wrong with the web today</p> How the Blog Broke the Web Tue, 12 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0400 <p>A critique of reverse chronological sorting and specifically Movable Type.</p> How Websites Die Tue, 12 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0400 <p>&ldquo;It pains me to see people build websites with no feeling of obligation to them — when you put something out into the world, it is your responsibility to care for it.&rdquo;</p> Hunting the Nearly-Invisible Personal Website Tue, 12 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0400 <p>Humorous article that compares the personal website to a rare species</p> I miss the internet. Tue, 12 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0400 <p>&ldquo;You didn’t so much surf the web as explore it, encountering unknown territories and unexpected gems. Websites were less about utility and more about passion. Amateur webmasters crafted their domains as personal expressions, little slices of their world that they invited you into.&rdquo;</p> On attention management & owning your content Tue, 12 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0400 <p>&ldquo;The internet became a terrible place. It seems that today we need to give our data, content and attention to others in order to receive a virtual form of social affirmation. This is my answer to that.&rdquo;</p> On building a home on the web Tue, 12 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0400 <p>&ldquo;Stumbling upon these websites was a bit like walking into their physical house, leaving your shoes by the door and, glass in hand, taking a peek at the spines of their books, their record collection, the picture frames on the wall, or the tidbits they displayed on the sideboard.&rdquo;</p> Passionless Web Tue, 12 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0400 <p>Manu writes about personal websites quite frequently; this is one piece of many. Check out his archives for more.</p> Rediscovering the Small Web Tue, 12 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0400 <p>&ldquo;A painter wouldn’t add more red to her painting or change the composition because market data showed that people liked it better. It’s her creative vision; some people might like it, others might not.&rdquo;</p> Stop Crowdsourcing Your Confidence Tue, 12 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0400 <p>This one is less about personal websites and more about how social media can be toxic. The ideas are important in the overall discourse.</p> The Joys and Sorrows of Maintaining a Personal Website Tue, 12 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0400 <p>&ldquo;As someone running a personal website, you are like the neighborhood cobbler competing against the national chain stores. You know your product is superior, but you still have no hope of prevailing. Your best possible outcome is merely surviving to continue the struggle.&rdquo;</p> The small web is beautiful Tue, 12 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0400 The Value of a Personal Site Tue, 12 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0400 <p>Personal sites can be used for learning technologies and sharing learnings</p> The Year of the Personal Website Tue, 12 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0400 <p>Call to action to make 2023 the year of the personal website</p> What is the Small Web? Tue, 12 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0400 <p>Includes a nice mental model of the small web scaling horizontally, unlike the corporate web which scales vertically</p> Why Personal Websites are Important Tue, 12 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0400 <p>&ldquo;Your website should be the primary place where all of the stuff you create goes. It should be THE place for people to find and communicate with you.&rdquo;</p>