I'm all in favour of simple websites without unnecessary JS, but I find a large comment section skews my sense of article length.
If I'm reading a medium length post, the scrollbar can be very misleading if there are many comments.
miniblog.
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I like the idea of tools like Pinboard or Karakeep that let you save copies of websites you've bookmarked.
I'm considering just writing a script that saves web pages as a .md in a private git repository though.
It feels crude. I think I get essentially all the benefits though?
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I'm considering using WebP more: for example, my websites would load faster and browsers have supported it since 2020: https://caniuse.com/webp
That said, GitHub just added support in August 2025, so I suspect I'd still find use cases that don't work yet:
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I find it fascinating how some businesses have scheduled downtime for their websites (e.g. my electricity provider last weekend), but others don't.
I suspect it's primarily culture. You generally need to turn off electricity to do work, so your other tooling may reflect that.