About ByteRefuge
ByteRefuge exists as a personal statement on the current state of the Internet.
It exists to flagrantly ignore the generally accepted design philosophy, which is to voraciously extract information from the public rather than freely giving to them.
I strongly believe more websites ought to be minimally designed, focused on the content being presented, without regard for clout, monetary gain or political activism.
While there is a time and a place for those things on the internet, it is my belief that the people that use this tool have a civil duty to create, seek out and engage
with this part of the Internet. The purpose being to preserve the utopian vision digital pioneers set out to create in the 90s and 2000s. Even if that results in this
carved out section going galt, isolating itself from the broader Internet.
The name ByteRefuge was chosen specifically because it is just one small part of the internet, a safe haven for building a brighter future. The information unit ‘byte’
was chosen for two reasons, a byte is large enough to hold interesting data such as a char and boolean, and because it represents the tiny scale I want to create at.
Small web-pages that are kilobytes instead of megabytes of data, programs that are elegantly written to operate efficiently and soldering circuitry to create new tools
and systems. Nothing makes me happier than a deep understanding of a system and it’s applications. On this blog, I hope to share that joy with you.