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20 years is a long time to work on something, congrats Blake!  So many great links to small web creators, why, and how to build your own site.

As algos turn to shit the small web remains a space that cannot be ruined.  There will always be rss feeds from real humans writing for other humans.

!!! note

    This post is a <a href="/thoughts/" class="wikilink" data-title="Thoughts" data-description="These are generally my thoughts on a web page or some sort of url, except a rare few don&#39;t have a link. These are dual published off of my..." data-date="2024-04-01">thought</a>. It's a short note that I make
    about someone else's content online <a href="/tags/thoughts/" class="hashtag-tag" data-tag="thoughts" data-count=2 data-reading-time=3 data-reading-time-text="3 minutes">#thoughts</a>