When I get wistful for the internet of old, one thing that strikes me is that all the blogs back then, well, they were just blogs. The idea of weblog...

I've had my own Blogroll for a while now, but I'm seeing them start to popup all over the small web, and it's glorious.

On Mastodon, Katherine (side note: whose work on poetic programming is incredibly inspiring) asked:

Personal websites are an opportunity to be uniquely you online. Your website can be designed in the way that you want. You can express and connect ideas in a way that is personally meaningful. You can create original content and reply to writing or art that you found thought-provoking. You can make: art, essays, blog posts, reflections, interactive experiences. All on the web.

One of my favourite things to do in my free time is to tinker with this website. Indeed, this website is the culmination of years of tinkering. I have added features like coffee shop maps that I can share with friends, a way for me to share my bio in two languages, a sitemap.xml file to help search engines find pages on my website, and more.