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Welcome

A personal archive of writing, projects, experiments, and interesting corners of the web.

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Posts

Name Date Modified Type
📄 Building a Tiny Digital Garden 2025-04-28 Blog Post
📄 Notes on Personal Publishing 2025-03-14 Blog Post
📄 Macintosh Metaphors on the Web 2025-01-22 Blog Post
📄 Hypertext as Interface 2024-12-09 Blog Post

Projects

Name Date Modified Type
📦 Jonathan's System 2025-05-16 Website
📦 Reading Archive 2025-04-10 Knowledge Base
📦 Design Sketchbook 2025-02-19 Research Project
📦 Web Experiments 2024-11-03 Lab

Articles

Longer essays, research notes, and extended writing.

  • On Hypertext and Personal Publishing
  • Designing with Constraints
  • The Enduring Appeal of Desktop Metaphors

About

Jonathan is a writer, designer, and builder interested in personal publishing, software history, web culture, and internet ephemera.

This site is inspired by classic Macintosh interfaces, System 7 aesthetics, and independent web publishing.

System Version 1.0 • Last reboot: Today

Linked List

  • https://waxy.org Waxy
    Long-running independent weblog with a strong personal voice.
  • https://gwern.net Gwern
    Deep research, essays, and extensive notes.
  • https://www.robinsloan.com Robin Sloan
    Fiction, technology, publishing, and delightful experiments.
  • https://maggieappleton.com Maggie Appleton
    Digital gardening and visual thinking.
  • https://100r.co Hundred Rabbits
    Independent software, creative tools, and off-grid computing.
O additiona Posts and Projects tables sortable by clicking the column headers (Name / Date Modified / Type). That would make the Finder metaphor feel much more authentic.