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Digital Manifesto

A document of what I hope to work towards as I keep making things for the web

🌱 2022-07-10

edited 2022-07-12

edited 2022-12-03


  • Make things with personality
  • Open trumps closed [1]
  • Own your data [2]
  • Use tools that will work even a decade later
  • Build your own garden, an open and welcoming place, and break the hegemony of walled gardens.
  • Document your mind.
  • Don’t load unnecessary junk. A side effect to not loading unnecessary junk, a fast website.
  • Access is a civil right. Inaccessibility is poor craftsmanship [3]
  • The Hyperlink is at the heart of who you are. It's fate needs to lie with you. [4]
  • Own your domain

  1. https://adactio.com/articles/1522/ ↩︎

  2. the indieweb played a big part early on in putting to words what I thought was missing in cookie cutter, dog-eat-dog internet of today. ↩︎

  3. marcy sutton tweet ↩︎

  4. Interesting talk about how the hyperlink changed the world. If nothing else, what's happening at twitter (december 3, 2022) right now should be a cautionary tale in building your digital identity in walled gardens. ↩︎


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