To encourage myself to write more, I have begun publishing some of my thoughts, informal writings, and drafts in a simpler format which can be updated easily from my mobile devices. It is a static text-only format inspired by some alt web protocols like Gopher and Gemini, but without the superficial limitations.

I have created a separate website for this content, designed first for terminal-based browsers such as lynx and also accessible from any normal web browser. I’m not yet entirely sure what to call it, but I’m referring to it presently as my “alt web site”.

The project is inspired by the “Small Web” movement, which promotes lightweight, self-hosted, personal web pages, far from the mass commercialization of the modern social web. While my main homepage is already largely informed by those standards, I have taken the idea a step further and gone with a more 80s conception of the internet with pure text and static files. More robust content which does not suit such a format will continue to be posted here.

To visit the site, point your terminal or regular web browser to tm.trtl.in.