Anything

Anything

Published on December 21, 2023

A while ago I published a different kind of blog. I have now reverted to a more traditional format and moved that project, now dubbed Anything to its own URL.

Anything is a blog-as-a-service. It can host whatever someone wants on the deploy side. If anyone wants their content to appear on the site they can just encode it as a text string in the URL.

If you're interested in diving deeper - you can read the technical post here

PS

Here's what the raw URL looks like. The entire post shown on that page is encoded after /post right here. If Anything is anything, it's a rendering engine.

https://wide-deer-26.deno.dev/post/H4sIAAAAAAAA%2F3xV227cRgx911cQMQLbgFe%2BtjDytnXtZNF1EmSdAEEQIJTE3WE9GqozlGX56wuOZCMtiu7LXmbEc%2BEhdw9WCpxgcKjA9rEsiveiQA8UR3UcdrCCIbKSXdtKnE4A%2B4Yp1FS%2BHEuAFsMIKh3X6Q0o1S6Il914BHXvtY90BFcuclLGwDoeASmgL4viE9USavaGpo4SQcOpw4hKczlIBkt%2BBM8ta4L2ZwpLBXWcoBMOegQauULPqTXKScBhbBYDR2qAgwosW4pcY3imBWrq1RFsI7ZGQrYggeytHYFSwjGZvuxSyzunUBFgAA5B6l76NNGEimppydiGhMoS0IO6KP3OQUVW2RCogWq0yrXErk8ZTR1F6PrKcz0DlkVxZ6IqLzsTEmSAzd3y7np9vdmUcOcIKChHgk5SbmItQZFDlpnlfP60nrSN0gNGggdOrEYjyFDC0ntj8coQXj1DcAKcHKuloQZa5AAd7maXZowEnsO9yc7oCVZQe%2BQWsFcnMTnuQLYlfNhCLX1M9vT%2F8yWsnTkx9T9XL4tiGeYQWrsqgh0Fslg04ChSCV%2BlNwDfWCwDOKs8Sh9BhjA5l1n3iXJkBqqSZRVNZKTQUKQIvM0GRULvRxgwWH2V0mYj9V0n0QKH8b6RIZRFsdr33shM7fIjRPKEyWi2ln%2Fx5ssz1YnG509ry6KEElYTnOFM9xSSYjRQwujHLG1%2FnsmdUI5eb1wX6mjhRJqyKE5LuKNHhS37HNRnU20YlUIJn1Of9SDcztTz3SOo%2BikQk28qmq9F6iIlCjpnsUHFxVZii5rML6VHLYuzEm4MkBO8feKuo6Y4L%2BE3TPTrBThMuYV2MvFqsaFp5tAcWFCYQpU0mlsHSWzpDBLvM0a%2BdFhclLCZLnQea2oAt0oRfpjE4x8WFgu2bOFPSa5O3LYSUllLWxR7e3DDobFnP%2BZcDqwOriya1CyWL%2BEsiuu8xrJrOSKrl4a8tPU%2FEg2eHyjBvC6%2BRRGdQmubhpW%2BHzjVLr05Pv43t8OXxtsgRsJMEv%2FBwOEDTag2EwoDew9e5B4839O843BH5SxOttCH%2B2Ct%2FYllroLwreE01YrPfFWyBvtoZb4fHGdL312k1XJ%2BvT67OV%2Ff%2FnX59HFz%2BmX1xK%2FPbt5vvrxbba4e1182u4eRh25Tn979cRtW65uvMl5d9id0ezU%2F%2B%2Frs5vL35dvIdH7i7bfDMjdlbVs7b8RUFNY9T2GnroRbfMzdnL5bb69clDYn7Ozk8hxqhxFrpZhgAWcnv1zMaTAnU1%2BpHWZFjeRVhaGBKL3mf6ZGwr6COQQU8hbGSnoFJwPU0lriE9tizwlUmcYsqRWxO9nxFrt8ZhOwmHnaDLFCImrzWWXLLQPYXyRCchJ1WuRl8TcAAAD%2F%2FwMA1onjg2UHAAA%3D

What Next?

This is the latest exploration in my Good Internet Series that began with my app "blockchan", i.e. Ephemeral.

I will continue to tug on the threads that made up the internet of my youth, the good internet. These threads are:

  • anonymity to the point of recklessness
  • anti-corp-influence
  • countercultural due to high technical bar to entry (no normies and get good)
  • tech first, view last, i.e. minimal UI polish on underlying tech

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