Small Web September Check-In 1: Links!
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smallwebWe’ve reached the first check-in point for Small Web September! How is everyone doing so far? Whether you’re just getting warmed up or are already ticking off goals (or maybe you just found this and want to join – welcome!), come and share your progress in the comments of this check-in.
The theme of this week’s check-in is links! Earlier this year, I came across Coy (osteophage)’s link compilation in praise of links, which led me down a rabbit hole of reading various essays about the importance of hyperlinking and being a good steward of the web. This includes not making your own site into an effective dead end, but sending people on to interesting destinations via links that you’ve included there.
I’ve always been a lover of curating cool webpages and sites, but it struck me that I wasn’t actually doing much of this on my own little website – now, it’s a personal fanworks archive, so you could argue that linking out to random pages is a bit out of step with the purpose of it. However, it broadened my thinking about where I could start adding more links: from archiving rec lists to linking out to gifts that other fans had made for me over the years.
So, the discussion starter for this check-in is: how do you link, and to what? Do you have a link hub or set of interesting finds? Would you like to do more with links?
As a bonus: share some of your favourite interesting links (this can be anything from thought-provoking essays to just cool stuff! They don't need to be explicitly small-web-themed, although that's great too).
And of course, let us know how your Small Web September project(s) is/are going!
As a reminder, this is the first of four ‘check-in’/comment points that will be published during the event – you can check out the schedule and dates of these posts over on the event intro. There’s no cut-off point for commenting on these, so you can add something at any time – you also don’t need to comment on them all or do them in order! The themes are a loose guide, but all discussion is welcome.
For the previous kick-off/goals post, check out: Small Web September: Kick-Off & Goals!
The theme of this week’s check-in is links! Earlier this year, I came across Coy (
osteophage)’s link compilation in praise of links, which led me down a rabbit hole of reading various essays about the importance of hyperlinking and being a good steward of the web. This includes not making your own site into an effective dead end, but sending people on to interesting destinations via links that you’ve included there. I’ve always been a lover of curating cool webpages and sites, but it struck me that I wasn’t actually doing much of this on my own little website – now, it’s a personal fanworks archive, so you could argue that linking out to random pages is a bit out of step with the purpose of it. However, it broadened my thinking about where I could start adding more links: from archiving rec lists to linking out to gifts that other fans had made for me over the years.
So, the discussion starter for this check-in is: how do you link, and to what? Do you have a link hub or set of interesting finds? Would you like to do more with links?
As a bonus: share some of your favourite interesting links (this can be anything from thought-provoking essays to just cool stuff! They don't need to be explicitly small-web-themed, although that's great too).
And of course, let us know how your Small Web September project(s) is/are going!
As a reminder, this is the first of four ‘check-in’/comment points that will be published during the event – you can check out the schedule and dates of these posts over on the event intro. There’s no cut-off point for commenting on these, so you can add something at any time – you also don’t need to comment on them all or do them in order! The themes are a loose guide, but all discussion is welcome.
For the previous kick-off/goals post, check out: Small Web September: Kick-Off & Goals!
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Date: 2025-09-07 08:39 pm (UTC)I'm in the phase of settling in now that I have more free time, and have mainly focused my small web efforts this week on summarising some discussion that was had about decentralisation so that it can be used for a project some people want to work on.
In terms of links, I'm still mulling over what to do with them when the time comes! I have a lot of useful resources in my bookmarks that probably should be made more publicly accessible. I've toyed with the idea of self-hosting something like linkding, or maybe just have tag filtering via CSS and checkboxes. I think with texts that involve a lot of self-referencing, like the summary I'm writing currently, I want to find some way of including links to make reading it easier, which feels sort of on topic? XD As for external links, I want to find a good visual representation of citations essentially, since I sometimes want to link things without always embedding them in the text in a natural way.
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Date: 2025-09-10 10:17 pm (UTC)Oooh 👀 Sounds intriguing!
I found out about this last SWS, and would also like to set up an instance of my own - maybe then I can finally keep proper tabs on the resources that are currently scattered across Firefox bookmarks, Chrome bookmarks, and random notes on my phone xD
I'm not sure what a good visual representation of citations would look like in practice 🤔 but I hope you can find a solution that fits your needs! ^^
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Date: 2025-09-11 07:36 pm (UTC)Thank you! There's loads that I've seen, both in academia and on websites, so I've gathered some links to look at when I go about designing mine~
And yeah, I'm really excited about what's been cooking. A bit too early in the process to share any details, but I'm thinking about getting the summary focused on some things where input from regular users would be great and then start some discussion around that here!