Digital Philosophy
Respect the reader and their attention: This site rejects the paradigm of the current internet as harmful. The site is lightweight and should load quickly regardless of device. It mostly consists of plain-text with minimal styling to make it look good. You'll notice images are a rarity or are handled with care. There are no cookies (other than those set by bearblog for minimal functions like date/time determination), no javascript, no ads, no tracking (only minimal analytics), no pop-ups, no hijacking your scrollbars, no bandwidth-hogging resources.
Respecting and making the most of hardware: This site avoids becoming bloated like much of the web is these days. It does not place the burden on the reader to have high-end hardware, fast internet, or tech-knowledge.
Human-made: An absolutely fundamental tenet of inward.garden is the primacy of human expression and the rejection of attacks against it. An ethical approach to site design that we've nearly lost to time. A garden, tended by hand instead of machine. This site rejects the use of generative AI content as it is fundamentally anti-human and anti-expression. Further exposition on these views.
Other principles: this site and its author consider various facets and principles applied to the web and computing in general, when creating anything or using hardware. One such set of principles is permacomputing.
The Tech
This is a minimal static HTML/CSS site, currently hosted on Netlify to save money. This could change at any time. No longer hosted on bearblog, however the music blog still resides there. No web fonts.
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