While being inspired by the small web/indie web re-emergence, I came across a quote from biko (though their site is now down):

My Website is a Personal Museum October 13, 2023

These thoughts about structuring one’s content led me to think: exactly what is the structure that houses my content? Sure, my content is housed inside my personal website, but what does my website represent? I am a person who often thinks in metaphors, so to concretely represent something in a nonliteral way helps out a lot.

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The powerful thing about having a website is that it could literally be anything. It can be structured however you’d like, and you can share about whatever you want. Your site could be a library of information about wildflowers; it could be a shrine for your favourite anime; it could be an alternate reality game. Heck, it could be all of these things combined: an alternate reality game in which you collect and document wildflowers in real life, whilst featuring characters from your favourite anime. The world is your oyster.

biko (broken link)

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That struck me–never once in the 32+ years I’ve been making websites did I consider it this way. I’ve always been so focused on the fact that a site should be homogenous in some way that I struggled to keep a single topic here. But just like I am not a homogenous human, my homepage website museum doesn’t need to be either. Or put another way: I am the topic.

So that’s lead me to feel there are three main goals to this site:

  • participating in small web/indie web ideals
  • curating the museum of me and my special interests
  • preserving this data for future techno-archaeologists

Let’s see where this takes me. I’ll be constantly updating the site. Probably during moments of procrastination. A projcrastination project, if you will. What does this look like? Explore the menus at the top to see.