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Using static websites for tiny archives
I've been creating small, hand-written websites to organise my files. It's a lightweight, flexible approach that I hope will last a long time.
The individual images are stored in per-year folders, there's some machine-readable metadata in metadata.js, and I can double-click index.html to open the file in my browser and use the website. Using a static website like this isn’t new – my inspiration was Twitter’s account export, which gives you a mini-website you can browse locally. For a long time, I thought of HTML as a tool for publishing on the web, a way to create websites that other people can look at.
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