Web brutalism

In a digital era where everything web must be flashy, interactive and addictive, pages as simple and plain as these you're reading could seem strange. However, it's exactly as a reaction against the moern web that I've decided to adopt a kinda "brutalist" style for this digital garden. Contents should be more important than the boxes they're into. Form matters less than function.

My dislike for fake simplicity led me to the simplest solution: apache, html, a simple css file and that's all. Html pages are composed directly in a text editor and then uploaded online using good old ftp. Nothing fancy, nothing flashy. It is a good idea, albeit somewhat impractical if you want to write often. But this is a digital garden, not a blog.

The simplest logical alternative is, probably, Gemini. But managing a Gemini capsule is a different thing from managing some web pages. And the geminiverse is for sure entertaining but still not that popular. Also, Gemini looks like an empty bar now. As an experiment, I think it failed. As a solution, it became a niche of a niche. There's nothing wrong in this, but still.

Markdown, you say? It is another example of simplicity by abstraction. Being able to describe a page without html code is nice, but it still needs a layer of translation to html. Try to install even a flat CMS that supports Markdown and you could lose yourself in modules, php code, dependencies. The "simple solution" isn't simple at all. That said, of course any flat CMS with Markdown is infinitely better than a gigantic wordpress installation just for a simple text blog.