Artefacts of a
Burning World

Opinionated collection of 47 articles, films, podcasts and other artefacts related to the climate crisis.

About this blog

This is a personal blog by . It serves as a personal archive of artefacts related to the climate crisis. At best, it also provides others with an imperfectly categorised and somewhat chronological perspective.

This website is both playground and a counter approach to current web trends. Many websites today are user hostile and are wastefully using resources. This website tries to go another way by following these principles:

  • This website uses no tracking.
  • This website has no ads.
  • This website uses no cookies.
  • There are no pop-ups.
  • It doesn’t ask you to subscribe.
  • There is no way to rate this website. So I’m not asking you to give me a thumbs-up or leave a comment.
  • If you wish, you can subscribe via RSS. This way, you can subscribe just to the content you are interested in. Find instructions further down.
  • This blog is not a newsletter. There is no premium content.
  • New content on this blog is not sheduled but produced if I find the time and find some valuable to add.
  • Content addition is driven by friction and slowness. No breaking news.
  • Old posts are updated and corrected. Think of care rather than disruption.
  • The website is self-hosted and not dependent on a service that could be sold to a billionaire or exploited by underlying algorithms. Technically, yes, it’s hosted on Cloudflare and stored on GitHub, but I still have control over the content.
  • All posts can be viewed on the same page.
  • Blog posts have header images if they are relevant. Not some stock photo.
  • All Images have alt text, captions and sources.
  • Images are delivered in modern formats and responsive sizes to minimize traffic. Images are delivered in modern formats and responsive sizes to minimise traffic. Yes, I will leave Cloudinary if I can find the time to set up my own system.
  • This website uses semantic tags.
  • The website’s design has high contrast.
  • No JavaScript is shipped or needed.
  • Everything is pre-rendered. It’s just a static site.
  • This blog provides a light theme that does not display images.
  • The fonts used on this website are subsetted. Find out more about this technique.
  • You can filter the content to your liking. See the instructions below.
  • There is a description of why related posts are related.
  • It’s easy to navigate away from this website to others. Instead of copying their content, I’m linking to other pages.
  • This website is open source.

Many of these principles are inspired by the following articles/projects/websites:

This blog is built with SvelteKit and Tailwind. The CMS for this blog is Pocketbase. It runs on Pockethost.io. The page itself is hosted on Cloudflare Pages. Find the source code on GitHub.

The site is set in Untitled Sans and Charter.

RSS feed of the collection

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Links to the collection