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"origin": "https://htmlfolk.space.fast",
"description": "I work for Spacefast. HTMLfolk is my personal journal for weird little websites and projects.",
"intro": "Your friendly neighborhood webmaster. Weird little websites, personal projects, and links worth clicking. The internet could use more you.",
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"title": "We’re taking the word back.",
"excerpt": "Start. Learn. Overcome. Play. A little encouragement to make the thing you keep imagining.",
"date": "2026-10-14T13:00:00-05:00",
"url": "https://htmlfolk.space.fast/posts/taking-the-word-back",
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"content": "\n\nI gave [~~SLOP~~](https://slop.space.fast/#reclaim) a new job.\n\n**Start. Learn. Overcome. Play.**\n\nWe’re taking the word back for people who want to make things. A first attempt doesn’t have to be brilliant to be worth making. You don’t need somebody else’s permission to begin.\n\nThe tiny game. The comic about your extremely specific obsession. The website for a club with seven members and a questionable logo. Make the small version. See what happens.\n\nIf it’s wonky, congratulations: you have something to improve. The second version has been waiting very patiently for the first one to exist.\n\n## Someone finally made the thing\n\nThis is the part I care about: somebody has wanted to make something for years, gets some help, and finally makes it.\n\nSimon Willison revisited his 2022 Raccoon Heist concept in 2026 and made an AI-assisted browser-game experiment you can [actually play](https://simonw.github.io/raccoon-heist/). He’s an experienced programmer, and [his account](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/5/raccoon-heist/) includes rough edges. A playable first version gave the idea somewhere to go.\n\nThe writer behind Becky Breaks Things says she wanted [CountWhen](https://countwhen.com/) for ten years before building it with AI. She had prior tech experience, but no mobile-development experience. [Her account](https://beckybreaksthings.substack.com/p/how-i-built-a-mobile-app-without) includes setup, testing and revisions. Help didn’t make the work disappear. It helped her get to do it.\n\nThese are two people’s projects, not a promise that every AI-assisted attempt will be good. They’re a reason to let people begin.\n\n## One ground rule. Everybody gets it.\n\n[Wheaton’s Law](https://wilwheaton.net/2012/07/happy-dont-be-a-dick-day/): don’t be a dick.\n\nThat includes AI enthusiasts. Jobs, pay and consent matter. If someone is worried about losing work or having their work used without permission, listen. A nice-looking website doesn’t settle those questions.\n\nIt includes critics, too. Nobody owes a project attention, praise or free coaching. If feedback is welcome and you feel like giving it, offer a next step: the text is hard to read, the button doesn’t work, this claim needs a source.\n\nA maker’s tool inventory is not an entrance exam. Judge what’s there. Be specific. Basic decency is a much smaller ask than applause.\n\nAnd the reclaimed name isn’t a loophole for sneering at somebody else’s work. We’re giving it a positive job. Keep it there.\n\nI say plainly on the site that AI was involved in 100% of it. I set the direction and take responsibility for what appears there. That’s my voluntary disclosure, not a rule other makers have to follow.\n\n## Go make the thing\n\n[Read the declaration](https://slop.space.fast/#reclaim), then try the [five small first steps](https://slop.space.fast/#start).\n\nPick something you’d enjoy even if nobody else saw it. Ask for help. Try it. Fix one part. Share when you’re ready—or keep it for yourself.\n\nThe moon can accommodate another questionable little website.\n\nGo make yours."
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"title": "Long links. Short hops.",
"excerpt": "A tiny URL shortener, a lunar link machine, and something you can make your own.",
"date": "2026-10-13T20:40:00-05:00",
"url": "https://htmlfolk.space.fast/posts/long-links-short-hops",
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"content": "\n\nI wanted to shorten links by talking to my agent. No copying API keys. No extra dashboard. Just “make this link shorter,” and off we go.\n\nSo I made [Shortfolk](https://sflk.me/).\n\nNaturally, it needed a lavender alien, enormous orange boots and a moon-sized machine. A sensible amount of infrastructure for making a URL smaller.\n\nTry [sflk.me/x](https://sflk.me/x). It takes you to my HTMLfolk account on X.\n\nI work for Spacefast, and I get to make cool stuff with it. I’m sharing it here because I hope you’ll make cool stuff, too.\n\n## Make your own weird little thing\n\n\n\nGive your AI [this learning-page link](https://sflk.me/learn). It has the recipe, a skill and downloadable source to help you make your own version.\n\nChange the name. Change the art. Put the alien in smaller boots.\n\n[Have a look at Shortfolk](https://sflk.me/), then see what you can make."
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"title": "I'm a weirdo. Maybe you are too.",
"excerpt": "I miss the old web. I'm excited to make weird things with Spacefast, and I'd like to find some people to make them with.",
"date": "2026-10-13T12:00:00-05:00",
"url": "https://htmlfolk.space.fast/posts/the-internet-could-use-more-you",
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"content": "I'm a weirdo.\n\nFull disclosure: I work for Spacefast. They hired a weirdo. This is my personal site, so please don't blame them for the moon neighbors.\n\nI miss the old web, when being a weirdo felt like a perfectly good reason to make a website. You could put your odd little interests online, try something, and find other people who were into it. Everything didn't need to become a business.\n\nAnd then the Spacefast folks come along. They're building a platform where weirdos like me can have fun and make things. That got my attention.\n\nI don't want every idea to have to justify itself with ROI, clicks, or conversions. Sometimes I just want to make something because it sounds fun. See what happens. Learn a little. Make another thing.\n\nI'm excited to use AI for that, too. I want to experiment without being shamed or told I'm not a real developer. I want to spend my time making things, not defending how I made them.\n\nThat's why I put this site together. I want to find people like me who miss that feeling and want to do fun stuff with the web again.\n\nI'll share the things I make here, along with how they came together. Hopefully you'll want to make them too, change them, or take them somewhere I hadn't thought of. Maybe we can work on them together.\n\nIf that sounds like your kind of thing, hello. I'm glad you found this little corner of the internet.\n\nThe internet could use more you."
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