For years, the mantra of indie web development was move fast and break things . We optimized for velocity, frameworks, and JavaScript bundles. We forgot that sometimes, the most radical thing you can do is be slow.
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What you are left with is a digital garden. A place where projects are documented not as "case studies" (a term I loathe for its corporate sterility), but as stories .
The Architecture of Attention: Rebuilding crstn.org For years, the mantra of indie web development
The CSS file is exactly 47 lines long. No Tailwind. No Bootstrap. Just @media and gut feeling.
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In an era where AI can generate a portfolio in 12 seconds, the only irreproducible asset is taste . And my taste says that the web should feel like a place, not a pipeline.
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