What if it wasn’t satire?
The OG motherfuckingwebsite.com (and the spinoffs) all insisted it was satire, but what if it wasn’t? Seriously, look at all this unvarnished negative space. It is beautiful. Does your brain even know what to do when it isn’t being inundated with ads or upsells?
This isn’t meditation. This is respect for you as a person. You have probably never seen it on the internet.
You came here to see one madman’s ravings and that is all you get. No nagging about logins or subscriptions. No selling you shit you don’t need. No cookies or their pain in the ass banners. No giving your data to tech monopolies. It’s just you and an idea. It’s fucking magical. I want it to happen more often so I put it in an easy to replicate package that can actually be used in prod at companies and open sourced it (aka Docker compose).
At a high-level, this is self-hosted starter-kit for a blog platform which makes it easier for tech and tech-curious people to create a diversity of blogs free from any explicit dependencies on big tech with security baked in. Oh and of course it is entirely free, just bring your own server.
It satisfies the basic needs of four teams:
- Devs: Trusted Jekyll ecosystem with statically deployed pages that can run on a very small instance. Version control through Forgejo optional, but included. Fun fact my 15kb favicon is close to the same size as all the other files served to the client combined.
- Content Creators: Markdown editor and platform with real SEO optimizations. Not even typical marketing bullshit, 100% SEO score. Try it out in Google Lighthouse yourself.
- Analytics and Data: 1st party data without cookies. You don’t have to tell Google everytime someone visits your site. Support for custom events and funnels out of the box.
- Security: Crowdsourced WAF. IP Allowlisting. TLS. Reverse Proxy. Redudant Network level controls. Security Headers. No publicly accessibly logins or admin interfaces.