by far the easiest free "site" builder (especially if you're already in the notion ecosystem at all.) pretty sure they have domain forwarding as well if you want a custom one, and there's no shortage of examples of how to customize a notion page available on youtube and stuff if you want it to look a little more jazzy than the stock experience which is pretty minimalist
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I am personally not big on DIY coding and after going through what felt like torture with Wix, Squarespace, and Wordpress I tried Google Sites (which is free) and I found it to be the easiest way to create a simple and functional website that didn’t feel over-designed. It’s definitely won’t deliver a super slick or flashy aesthetic but that’s what I was going for anyways.
Dec 29, 2024
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it is by far the most customizable web builder and one of the only ones where you can fully change every component and have full access to the original code
my site for reference built with it (plz view on desktop if possible)
http://magnusholm.es/
Apr 5, 2024
Kinda have to see it to understand, but it has a unique interface where you can truly drag and drop anything anywhere, and you even can draw on it. The possibilities are endless, get crazy! (Or make it totally sane if that’s your thing)
Says it’s free forever 🤷‍♂️
Jul 6, 2024
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Mar 23, 2024
a treatise on the attention economy - checked it out on libby and got through it over the course of a work day, a lot of really interesting social and cultural explorations about how time itself is the final frontier of hypercapitalism and what decommodification of our attention and time should look like
the book starts with a story about the oldest redwood tree in oakland and how the only reason it’s still standing is bc it’s unmillable, and how being uncommercializable is essential to our survival. it ends with an exploration of alt social media platforms (mostly p2p ones) and what keeping the good parts of the social internet and rejecting the bad ones should look like
all in all a super valuable read; my only nitpick with the book is that odell isn’t just charting the attention economy but also attempting to “solve” it and relate it back to broader concepts about labor and social organizing, but her background is in the arts which leads to some really wonderful references to drive the points home while also missing some critical racial + socioeconomic analyses that one would expect (or at least really appreciate) from the book she promises to deliver in the introduction. but this does also make the book easier to read which is good because everyone should definitely engage with what she has to say
will definitely be revisiting
Mar 25, 2024