Starting a smaller internet

For years my writing lived in other people’s databases — a thread here, a draft there, a note in an app I no longer open. This is me reclaiming a small patch of land.

The rules are simple:

• It loads fast.
• It’s mostly text.
• I can publish by writing a Markdown file and nothing else.

That last one matters most. The friction between having a thought and it being live should be close to zero. So the whole site is just files:

# a new post is a new file
src/content/writing/the-next-idea.md

Add the frontmatter, write the words, save. It shows up. No CMS, no database, no dashboard to log into.

The best tool is the one that disappears when you’re using it.

There’s exactly one accent colour on this whole site — a warm clay — and I’m going to try very hard not to add a second. Constraints are the point.

More soon.