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Cursor Camp wins Tiny Awards 2026! (and my minor gripe)
The Tiny Awards celebrate “the small, poetic, creative, handmade web”: non-commercial websites by individuals or small groups, nominated and voted on by the public. For me, they have become an important signpost of the web revival. So many creative people are publishing awesome and interesting stuff on the web, far away from the algorithm-trodden (para-)social media silos.
This year’s winner is Cursor Camp by…
https://knot.tilman.me/post/cursor-camp-wins-tiny-awards-2026-and-my-minor-gripe/
In Distance there is the sight of everything; here there is the presence of something.
My website is ever changing. I am
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
I got angry in the water today. Not at any person. (Man vs Man) Not at the water. (Man vs. Nature) Not at myself. (Man vs. Self) And maybe it wasn’t anger. The surf is big right now. And the tide was high this morning. Big waves; large crashing wipeouts. I did a lot of...
Did some mailing list software enhancements for my test mailing list today. Seeing how it goes.
the age of the story.
nights lost in darkness.
The twenty-first episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out:
In Episode 21, I chat with Joel, the author of joelchrono.xyz about, among other things, writing about video games, weeknotes, homepage and website design, and more.
I hope you enjoy the episode!
Wonders of Web Weaving also has an RSS feed you can use to follow along from wherever you get your podcasts.
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
Looking south from Crystal Pier this morning. Life and death at the shore. Today in some big surf I made a miscalculation. I was moving to a different spot in the surf lineup–the informal order of surfers in the water–and I accidentally got in the way of a surfer taking off on a wave. We...
The radiant red leaves, the yellow and brown leaves, the feeling of the cold in my hands and in my cheeks.
Leaf-coated pavements. The world, painted with colour.
Music plays. Air breathes. Momentum dances.
Tilman
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An initiative by the alternative search engine Kagi, launched in September 2023. It surfaces recent posts from personal, non-commercial websites that the big search rankings tend to bury: kagi.com/smallweb
Also added to the Small Web garden page at tilman.me/garden/Alternative+Web+Movements/Small+Web
Slow Web is still slow
I had some digging into the "slow web" movement again: I re-read the Jack Cheng’s original post (2012), his own review post (2022) and found out about the Ben Grosser's Minus social network, where you are allowed only 100 post for life. All linked and more on the updated garden page: https://tilman.me/garden/Alternative+Web+Movements/Slow+Web
