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Curating my corner of the Internet with a freehand web editor

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Websites still exist, but they too have consolidated themselves into blog-based periodicals at the mercy of search algorithms and have cheapened themselves with affiliate link-stuffed "best [product category] for 2024" articles among a deluge of low-information posts which are helpfully obscured by an email signup modal. Modern tools such as Squarespace, WIX and Webflow offer WYSIWYG as well, however they too are targeted at businesses, not hobbyists, and thus have a user experience that's still very much focused on the creation of commercial websites -- product sales pages and e-commerce sites. This offers a sense of immediacy that you'd get with a regular consumer app like Pinterest, but is unique for an OSS project where usually there is an 'editor' mode that looks and feels different than a browser environment, and usually requires you to explicitly hit a "Publish" or "Submit" button for your changes to be saved.

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