So much to say

How is it that people always have so much to say?

In re-discovering the small, indie web I’ve realised that everyone seems to have something to say about anything. More than anything, one of the realisations I’ve arrived at is that HTML (and any other website-building platform) is a tool, not a personality.

“I have a website” doesn’t mean anything on its own. “I like to break down specific passages in well-known classical works to understand why they work, I have a website where I write about it, check it out”

Having a blog, having a website is cool. It’s nice to have your own corner of the internet where you can share things of your own accord, without having to comply to a website’s terms of service or privacy policy. There’s something nice about sharing at your own pace, on your own terms. If the internet is a superhighway, can my website be the slow scenic route? ¹ If sharing on instagram/tiktok/twitter/x is the marketing equivalent of a software dev trying to keep up with AI tools, then hand-crafting crafting websites

I’m mixing metaphors but that’s actually a lot of fun.

But at the end of the day, it’s about sharing (it’s always about sharing) something with some kind of value (emotional, educational, personal, sentimental), not for the sake of itself.