Data is currently dislocated – our narratives and metaphors around it try to convince us it is immaterial

Organic, Local, Artisan Data Storage

Seventy years ago we dreamed up links that would allow us to create two-way, contextual conversations. Why don't we use them on the web?

A Short History of Bi-Directional Links

A newly revived philosophy for publishing personal knowledge on the web

A history of our metaphorical understanding of the web

How to build a digital garden without touching code

The lost permissioning and copyright system of the Web

Project Xanadu as a pattern language, rather than a failed software project

An illustrated diagram exposing the inner layers of the dark and cozy web

Notes on how to use the position property in CSS to make scrollytelling stories

A few favourite books from the field of digital anthropology

Exploring ways to build social infrastructure around books and reading on the open web

Notes from my podcast episode Open Source and Gift Economies on Maintainers Anonymous

What we lose when our digital notes remove the freedom to move

Notes on pattern languages and Christopher Alexander's legacy on software programming

Adding spatial affordances to the experience of browsing the web