🌱 Web minimalism

A list of inspiring articles and tools about web minimalism. I very much tend to prefer plain text and raw formats for avoiding the need of using too many broken tools and abstractions.

• The web is mostly links and forms.
• John Doe's page - make a site using a simple HTML file.
• A smolweb bash generator.
• bashblog - a simple bash script for making blogs.
  • Demos : Official. A more evolved demo is https://dead.garden/.
  • Forks : shellCMS.
• Awesome Small Web Publishing - list of simple small web tools to publish your website.
• Awesome Minimalist Frameworks - list of simple and lightweight frameworks for misc. tech stacks. source.
• All you may need is HTML.
• You Dont Need JavaScript.
• my website is one binary.
• 1MB Club - tiny sites. Via.
• The 250KB Club. Via.
• The 512KB Club - is a collection of performance-focused web pages from across the Internet.
• 10kB Gallery - A tiny art gallery. Via.
• 1KB Club - even tinier sites. Via.
• minim.blog - a minimalist place that talks about existential and digital minimalism.
• simple HTML (archived) - an intro to web page design.
• Guidelines for a smolweb.
• The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML.
• JavaScript Bloat in 2024.
• Use plain text email.
• Why I prefer plain text email.
• there is beauty in the minimalism of email.
• Can Your Website Fit on a Floppy Disk?
• textonly.website - collection of personal websites that are lightweight and primarily text. Via. Via.
• The no-JS Club. Via.
• No CSS Club.
• A Short Guide to Minimal Web Development
• Write plain text files.
• The Website Obesity Crisis.
• Hyperlinked Text - a directory of websites that primarily stick with simple, marked up, hyperlinked text. Via.
• Markdown: a text adventure - an essay I wrote.

💡 Not only tools

blogs and personal websites whose I love the design: 💚 List of inspiring web designs.

📼 Not only web

I love minimalism applied generally...

• The Plain Text Project - The project is no longer maintained but hosts links and tools worth exploring.
• Plaintext world - Another site that curates plaintext resources.
• plaintext-everything - A list of plaintext resources on GitHub.
• Plain Text Accounting (PTA) - No fancy software needed.
• Write plain text files - "Reliable, flexible, portable, independent, and long-lasting. Plain text files will be readable by future generations, hundreds of years from now." ~ Derek Sivers.

🇫🇷 In French

• Gemini, le protocole du slow web