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Two handouts, designed for letter paper. Open one and use the print button, or save it as a PDF — they are built to survive contact with a printer, which is more than most web pages manage.
Take them into a vendor conversation, hand them to a client, or leave them with a board that has to make a decision about a website.
An anti-enshittification field guide
Keep Your Website Yours
2 pages · letter
Platforms change the deal. This works through what to own and what to rent at each stage of a business, what it costs to defer a decision, and the five questions worth asking before agreeing to any tool.
What’s inside
- Four stages, from just starting to exit or handoff — what to own and rent at each
- Five layers of website decisions, and the bill that comes due for whichever you rank last
- Five questions before saying yes to a tool, including the export test
- The exit test: if leaving costs more than joining did, you are not renting
A guide to website infrastructure
Anatomy of a Website
4 pages · letter
A website is not one product — it is nine systems that are usually sold bundled, which is what makes the boundaries hard to see. This names each layer in plain English, with an ownership and exit check for every one.
What’s inside
- What actually happens between typing a URL and seeing a page
- Terms that get conflated — domain, registrar, DNS, host, platform, CMS, repository
- Nine layers, each with decisions to make, how to explain it to a client, and an exit check
- Four common project shapes, and a minimum viable handoff checklist
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