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Personal blogging but mostly pagan content; ideas I'm experimenting with and trying out; plus intermittent trangst and povertyblogging and paranoia about the impossibility of safe social communities
In future, I hope to build a little community (it's hard to be a witch alone); for now, we have a very quiet discord (if you join, ping me so I know you're there). There's no real need or requirement to "become an initiate"; you can just pick up my notes and run with them; but sometimes doing things together is nice. You're not a "tradition" until what you do has been passed on through three generations; it's something to aspire to.
Mastodon is a twitter-esque platform with the worst features of modern social media stripped out, and I hang out on the cosy pagan.plus instance.
Herald
I watch a lot of film and television, and sometimes my thoughts fit better on a movie blog than on a pagan one. Folk horror, children's weird, strange stuff from the 70s
Programs
These programs help me manage the unwieldy amounts of data this project creates!
Open-source ebook manager - for browsing your collection, tagging and sorting to your hearts content, and adding them to your ebook reader. A physical ebook reader is a great way to spend less time next to tempting devices, but still have the joys of information (you can convert websites to ebooks, for one thing).
Bibliography manager - for academics and the like - and invaluable for managing a large amount of Reading. You can export your lists to html pages, which is very handy.
Free, old-school website space with a great community of other creators making self-expressive online spaces. I built a lot of confidence here with website-making and find it a lot more pleasing than using sites where you have less control over the look. I built my original website here, and my skills advanced really quickly.
Free, indie web-hosting for hobby websites - a bit more fully featured than neocities, but with a more intimidating learning curve too. This website is on leprd!
Straightforward command-line program for downloading videos (or audio files) from youtube, and a huge number of other sites. Absolute lifesaver for archival work & backing up obscure television broadcasts, documentary clips, etc; if you want to see it again in future, you need to have a local copy.
I currently use youtube-dlp, a fork of the project, but I spent so long on an animated blinkie I'm disinclined to update it just yet.
Privacy-focused search engine, often better quality because it avoids algorithmic/SEO guessing and tracking for what you want
Peer-to-peer network for music collectors
Classic open source art software - I use it for touching up my scanned art, as I have done for over a decade.
Fraidycat captures RSS feeds from various sources - including blogs, social media, wikipedia and more - and then displays them as a browser extension. Perfect for breaking tricksy addictive habits & refocusing on just the work you need to read.
Radio Astercote is powered by this music-organising program - I particularly make use of its Custom Tags feature.
Extension available on browser and phone browsers, allowing you to set rules blocking time-sink websites. Granular tools - organise websites into different rulesets, choose when and how long you can see them, and password lock them if you need.
For keeping the online and offline/WIP versions of the website in sync.
Pagan People
other pagans on the smallweb
Colophon
Learn about the fonts used on this site.
The original layout on the main-pages was by Eggramen, and built on and extended by me. All other pages predominantly by me: if you are a hobbyist making not-for-profit sites, please look at my code and borrow from it!
Useful sites:
Web Toys
- 90s cursor effects
- make your website sparkle!
- Vertex Meadow
- make an environment to explore in your browser with just paint images. tricky to master, mesmerising to play with. Beneath a Stained Sky is an excellent Lunar-Stellar mood.
- Simone Computer
- Toy website like a computer, with great links
- java/dhtml web effects
- for your own site
- Super Pixel Quest
- part game, part art, all wonderful
- NeoTCG
- Play a digital TCG on neocities
- brkmnd.com
- navigate this site with a command line!
- Web Desktops
- a collection of websites where the appearance mimics a desktop
- strml
- personal tech site with fun interactive design
- pranx.hacker
- do HACKING
- GUI Gallery
- Screencaps of vintage GUIs
- My Vintage TV
- Television for watching clips from the past
- eev.ee
- Hobbyish game dev blog with lovely design
- Your World of Text
- A text-only website anyone can type into. Chaos reigns!
- Werner's Colors
- Color library from the past
- Tiny Tools
- bumper list of tools to make your own little games and webtoys with
- href.cool
- a hand-curated list of fun places to visit
Interesting Things
- The Flag of Earth
- Proposal for a flag for all humankind
- How to DIY cel animation
- from anna firth
- A Field Guide to Roadside Wilflowers at Full Speed
- american plant guide
Going smallweb
- textonly.html
- A linklist of websites whcih are almost wholly text-based
- GDCSS
- a CSS framework just like the one for the GOV.UK website
- Hundred Rabbits
- Programmers on a boat, experimenting with micro-alternatives to weighty programs, blending art and programming
- Tiny blog services
- smol.pub, mataroa.blog, bearlog.dev; midnight.pub (a community pub), rawtext.club (a slow social network)
- Neat.css
- Teeny framework for minimalist webpages
- No Clutter Clean Youtube Viewer
- Watch videos without the stress
- invidious
- use youtube without a youtube account - no tracking, make playlists, and more
- easyindie.app
- 'run your own app' which are extremely quick to setup
- 0data.app
- apps where you own your data and none is shared
- Lynx
- A text-based web browser
- Marginalia.nu
- A search engine for the small web
- switching.software
- suggestions for better alternatives to platforms you already use (for ethical, safety, political or other reasons)
- Simple microblog
- Generates HTML from text files. Python.
- Dead Logs
- Mini website generator
- Zonelets
- More microblogging
- Google Webfonts Helper
- Replace google webfonts with self-hosted fonts
- FontSquirrel
- Make an easy webfont kit from a font on your computer
- mermaid.live
- Make HTML diagrams
- sundaysites.cafe
- a community event for hobby website-making
- prism break
- more secure & private software options
- Goat Counter
- open source analytics tool designed for personal websites
- shields.io
- make lil status shields easily
- Decker
- lo/no code program for making interactive document games
- whatismyscreenresolution
- see how your website looks in multiple screen sizes
smallweb politics
- mnmlist: minimal web manifesto
- a vision for the minimalist internet
- Artisanal, Handcrafted HTML or: Why does my website look like shit?
- With a nice reading list of other sites about better, smaller, more creative web
- Local First
- Essay on why apps should be 'local first' (I agree!)
- Killed By Google
- Projects that no longer exist
- Hippocratic Tech Licence
- a licence for apps and software which aims to do no harm
- motherfuckingwebsite
- and its followup, bettermotherfuckingwebsite
- theultimatemotherfuckingwebsite.com/
- A primer on the accessible web
- A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden
- on a new way of being present online
- quitsocialmedia.club
- a one-stop website summarising reasons to do it and techniques for doing so
- 'Social Media Is Not Self-Expression'
- essay on social media and capitalism
- I’m still here: back online after a year without the internet
- essay from 2013
Personal Sites
- 32bit.cafe
- Smallweb social community
- John D. Duncan
- Web Gardens
- A pretty list of personal websites
- Cyber Mausoleums
- Death and the internet
- HillHouse.Neocities
- Pink AND Spooky! Has a haunted house media list
- Meyerweb
- Eric Meyer has been involved in the development of CSS for years, and his personal site is gorgeous
- Thomasorus
- joyful personal dev blog
- localghost.dev
- Lovely design & fun webtoys
a directory of personal neocities sites to explore. Some sites I've enjoyed include:
Your Computer
- CPUID - CPUZ
- Gives you more information about what the componetns of your computer are doing
- Website Dowloader
- Make an archival or offline copy of a website. I've started collecting pagan blogs and sites I view as influential or significant - you never know what the future will need - and I'm conscious that this era of our history is as fragile as the papers in the damp corner of Doreen Valiente's flat. Go ahead: download this website.
- Wayback Machine Downloader
- for when you get there too late
- Double Killer
- Remove duplicate files from your computer
- Sleeve Your Games
- Get card sleeves for particular dimensions (for example - your oracle deck)
- How to Torrent
- beginners guide
Sites I learned better CSS from included
- Matthew James Taylor
- Every Layout
- Fonts were installed with majodev's google webfonts replacer
- Colors with the help of tools from Color Designer
- Help with making gradients
Nostalgia
- Teen Witch.com
- Obsessed with this. This is how I became a pagan, it may have been this VERY site, and if it wasn't it was sites that looked just like it.
Music
- Sleepbot: Ambience for the Masses
- Directory of ambient albums, streaming radio, and more.
- Medieval.org
- Early music albums. Gorgeous, long-running website.
- Zimina's Ambient
- Personal list, sorted by subtheme. I used the design of the site as a close inspiration for my own Sounds of the Fen section.
- LOA2k
- The Library of Alexandria 2k is a streaming archive of vaporwave albums, a very ephemeral genre.
- small radio stations
- a curated list of mini independent radio stations
- Mainly Norfolk
- A guide to of British folk music
- WMFU
- listener-supported, non-commercial radio station broadcasting at 91.1 Mhz FM in Jersey City, NJ. Currently the longest running freeform radio station in the United States. Defined my music taste when I discovered its 'strange music' section on Beware of the Blog when I was 13 (and that was over 20 years ago)
- soma.fm
- Underground web radio with 30 different channels
- Retrostrange
- Streaming radio and television made up of public domain clips, including one channel for vintage science fiction radio
Webrings & Groups
Visit webrings for more interesting places to bimble about
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