A page you own, a paragraph you can read.
On hand-coding a personal site in 2014: why I left the platform feed, what h-entry actually buys you, and the small joy of plain blue links.
For about eight years I posted to platforms whose URLs I did not control. This page is different: it lives at a domain I renew every year, served by a static site I edit in a plain text editor. If the host disappears, the Markdown lives on three drives and a backup mirror.
The visible mechanics are short. Each post is an h-entry; the homepage is an h-feed. A Webmention brings replies back below the post. There is no JavaScript on this page.
The visual decisions follow from the values. The column is narrow, links stay classic blue or classic purple, and there is no card, shadow, or cookie banner. Whitespace is the texture; the prose is the product.