A wonderful meditation on the “living, temporal spaces” of the web, by Laurel Schwulst:

My favorite aspect of websites is their duality: they’re both subject and object at once. In other words, a website creator becomes both author and architect simultaneously. There are endless possibilities as to what a website could be. What kind of room is a website? Or is a website more like a house? A boat? A cloud? A garden? A puddle? Whatever it is, there’s potential for a self-reflexive feedback loop: when you put energy into a website, in turn the website helps form your own identity.

Schwulst captures a lot of the modern web, the complexity, the imperfect metaphors we use for this liminal space, the tensions presented by tech platforms, the possibility for building new worlds.

Jeremy Keith considers the possibility of a website as a forever project.