We live in a world where websites, once humble documents, have become sprawling applications. They beckon from distant servers, orchestrating scripts, APIs, databases, user states, and monetization pipelines—all to render a single page.
"Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
In choosing to build this cairn, I reject the modern mandate for complexity. I embrace presence over performance. Here, there are no trackers, no analytics, no CDNs. Just words. Just meaning.
This page is a monument—not to nostalgia, but to intentional simplicity. It lives wholly in this file. It does not ask for attention. It does not phone home. It simply is.
Most websites are bloated because they chase scale, personalization, surveillance, or interactivity. Even personal blogs are wrapped in toolchains designed for multi-user platforms.
Build small. Build static. Build truthful. Let your digital spaces reflect the natural systems you admire: elegant, self-contained, resilient.
If you found this file, maybe you’re a fellow wanderer. A digital naturalist. A systems thinker. If so, make your own cairn. Leave it on the trail.