The modern web is burdened — heavy with abstraction, cluttered with dependencies, tangled in complexity.
Each year brings another framework, another stack, another attempt to fix what we ourselves have broken.
But we don’t have to follow.
This site is a quiet defiance.
It’s built on enduring fundamentals: HTML, lightweight CSS, shell scripts, and plain text.
No transient frameworks. No fragile dependencies. No analytics disguised as surveillance.
Just static structure, minimal execution, and maximum clarity.
It speaks in the language of permanence.
You don’t need megabytes of JavaScript to express a thought.
You don’t need layers of middleware to publish an idea.
You need less.
Less noise — because complexity breeds confusion.
Less opacity — because abstraction dilutes control.
Less reliance on platforms you don’t own — because permanence belongs to the builder, not the ecosystem.
More intention.
More transparency.
More autonomy.
Let’s build with restraint — not out of nostalgia, but because constraint is discernment.
Because simplicity endures.
And because it scales.
A single HTML file, served from RAM via tmpfs, can outperform most modern stacks.
A 512-byte shell script can generate RSS feeds or archives.
Static files can be pre-compressed at build time.
The entire site can be mirrored or rebuilt using tools that have existed for decades: awk, grep, rsync.
No databases.
No CI pipelines.
No server-side rendering frameworks.
Only things you can see.
Things you can understand.
Things you can maintain.
This isn’t anti-modern.
It’s post-noise.
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