Hi folks, I’m so dang tired of the internet as it currently is. The idea of a small web, personal websites, returning to what the internet was intended to be sounds incredibly exciting to me and I’d like to invest in that… but I don’t really know where to start? So much of what I read seems to have a ton of coding jargon. I clicked on Small Web 101 and it was a masterlist of somewhat confusing links.
The most coding I’ve done was on Khan Academy as a teenager or setting up an automatic macro to run the coliseum for me in Flight Rising. I pirate basically everything I watch but I’ve only torrented one or two things and don’t really grasp how that works. I don’t really know anything about my laptop but I have a vague idea that I should switch to Linux and I replaced the screen once.
What’s step one for a wannabe Small Web enthusiast?
Honestly, what I do is write stuff up as .md files (text documents, basically) and then publish it via codeberg, which gets auto mirrored to github.io.
https://bobbyllm.codeberg.page/llama-conductor/
https://bobbyllm.github.io/llama-conductor/
It’s pretty low tech but it works. I can sketch out the thumbnail of how to do that if it would help (index files, xml files etc). Really, all you need it notepad++ and a codeberg account (free). Hell, if you feel uncertain, you could even get ChatGPT or Claude to help you out with this? It’s more or less a once off.
If you use windows, I can share my powershell command (.ps1) that will take what you write (in .md format) from your document folder, push it to your codeberg page. You literally just drop in a new document and hit publish it.
Ok, it’s a bit more complex than that to set up, but once it is, it really is just that :)