The Personal Web, to many people, only exists in a select few places. It could be solely sites on Blogspot, or Neocities, or some other adjacent platform, and that to them is the “Personal Web”. However, once you’ve exhausted these places and found the sites that you find interesting, it’s extremely difficult to figure out where to go next—to go to some unknown territory that you don’t even know exists.

A well-organized homepage was a sign of personal and professional pride — even if it was nothing but a collection of fun gifs, or instructions on how to make the best potato guns, or homebrew research on gerbil genetics.

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Over the last week, it has often felt as though we are holding an impossible position, as the conditions for credibility in many of our communities seem to have become mutually exclusive. On some parts of the left, any reaction that foregrounded Jewish grief and reached quickly for condemnation of Hamas’s atrocities appeared to obscure the root of the violence in decades of subjugation, and to distract from the ongoing atrocities in Gaza. In some parts of the Jewish community, any reaction that did not fully and forcefully condemn Hamas’s violence and bear witness to the extent of Jewish grief appeared as a moral failure and a lack of concern for Jewish lives. On either side, the voices on the other have been received as unforgivable moral and political failures.

From creative coding to using pen plotters like the Axidraw, Generative Hut showcases inspiring artworks from the generative art community and provides tutorials, blog posts and art prints to buy.

The month that I wrote this, I hope, an awful lot of people woke up to the facts that our climate is getting worse, our existing systems are showing their cracks, and that no one from the top is coming to save us – that those of us at the bottom are going to, as always, need to build the solutions ourselves.

The 19th-century poet, whose verse still resonates with its open-ended sense of how language produces meaning, is a model for a group of Brooklyn coders inventing a more humane computer.

Documents are documents. Books are books, recordings are recordings, and so on. As time has gone on, though, I’ve observed the probably obvious-to-others fact that Lore is the grease between the concrete blocks of knowledge, the carved step in an otherwise impossible-to-scale mountain, the small bit of powder sprinkled through a workspace to ensure sparks don’t fly and things don’t burn. Inconceivably odd to the outsider, but vital to the dedicated or intense practice of the craft.

In which “theory making” is talked about, but tangentially from the side

Teams who try to go remote without putting in place tools, workflows, and norms for asynchronous communication will fail.

In the move to radically reinvent a ‘poetic’ web, I motion to look at the spaces that we have already cultivated. That digital intimacies are not just ‘built’ or ‘resolved’—that the act of cultivating this internet is beyond the hands of any technologist alone: it is in consciousness-raising, recognizing the dwellings and spaces people have already cultivated, and intentionality over what institutions & politics we are modeling this new web after.