The 88x31 Project

It is my goal to make the biggest hand-picked, clickable, working 88x31 catalog possible.

I hope you enjoy this! It's quite small right now, but in a few months time it will definitely be quite big!

Please click around and find something you like! Make sure you support the people who are behind these buttons.

Wanna add your own? Or remove one you have added?

Anything broken or wrongly categorized?

Any questions or concerns?

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If any of those, post here or email me at kurvexa@proton.me

IMPORTANT:

Shutdowns are regular!

No profit is made!

This is solo-ran! Please have paitence

I've been self-hosting since 2014. None of my sites have made me money. None have been wildly successful. All of them taught me more about running a real service than any day job ever did.

The post argues there's a real difference between having a website (Substack, WordPress.com, Squarespace) and hosting one (a domain, a server, a CMS, the whole stack). The operations tax is the value, not the cost.

Five things hosting forced me to learn:

• Web development. Started because the theme didn't have a contact form. Three months later I was scaffolding components without thinking.
• Web design. I'm not a designer, but the stakes were zero, so I designed anyway. I redesigned the nav three times in one weekend.
• Reliability, security, performance, observability, accessibility. Every one is a specialization, every one yours to obsess over or ignore.
• Migration battle scars. WordPress to Jekyll to Ghost. Every move taught me something I couldn't have learned otherwise.
• The shift from user to contributor. You stop reading the internet and start writing it.

The post also has an "Or Not!" section. If you can't afford the time or the data responsibility, there are five managed alternatives I'd happily point people to.

https://starikov.co/host-a-website/

What was your gateway? Did self-hosting click immediately, or did you bounce off and come back?

A procession begins when voices gather in motion.

PARADE is a participatory, web-based art initiative that enacts an endless virtual procession of voices. Rooted in a growing open archive of vocal expressions, the project continuously invites the global public to join as Co-Creators. Conceived in response to an era of interwoven global fracture, PARADE does not seek resolution or a synthesized harmony. Instead, it acts as a gesture of absurdist resilience, keeping open a borderless acoustic space where distinct, conflicting, intimate, and faraway voices can coexist.

We extend a radical invitation to the global public to join this ever-evolving procession of voices. The project welcomes any human voice and all forms of vocal expression, verbal or non-verbal — especially the native dialects, narratives, and vocal textures of diverse cultures. Whether it is your own recording or a resonance sourced from the wider world, every contribution is vital to the collective. By entering this spatial auditory field, each voice helps shape a borderless procession that holds human complexity in all its irreducible texture.

At its core, PARADE belongs to its contributors. Those who upload are credited on the website as Co-Creators, and the procession grows not around a singular authorial voice, but through the ongoing presence of those who enter it. In this sense, the archive is not a static repository, but a living soundscape of human connections carried by many realities, languages, and forms of vocal expression.

From its growing archive, PARADE unfolds through the website’s two experiential interfaces. In Procession, PARADE’s geo-based WebAR experience for mobile, the encounter becomes situated, directional, and more somatic: participants place anchors near their physical location, and voices emerge along a shared path between those anchors, producing the sensation of an actual procession moving through lived space. In Spatial Archive, the project’s 3D immersive web experience for desktop, participants enter a boundless virtual space and can spawn voices into different directions around them, opening a more exploratory and compositional mode of listening.

Across both experiences, participants do not merely observe; they march alongside or stand amidst the crowd, enveloped in a spatial auditory field where voices approach, recede, and cluster, experiencing the ebb and flow of social density as a bodily encounter with plurality. Within both frameworks, no single narrative dominates: voices emerge from the archive without popularity signals or engagement incentives. This deliberate non-order establishes the project’s anti-ranking aesthetic, refusing the metrics of the viral, the curated, and the optimized.

PARADE draws on the enduring human impulse to gather, to express, and to be heard, while refusing to collapse difference into a synthesized harmony. It treats the human voice — with its breaths, hesitations, glottal stops, and emotional grain — as a visceral counterpoint to algorithmic flattening and synthetic smoothness: an ontological anchor through which the literal vibration of the body asserts a proof of human presence against abstraction.

A few principles matter deeply to the project:
• any human voice, in any language or vocal form, can enter the archive
• contributors are recognized as Co-Creators, not users
• voices are not ordered by popularity, virality, or engagement incentives
• AI serves only as a utilitarian tool for vocal isolation and signal processing
• uploaded voices are never used as training stock for generative systems
• voice contributions and user data are securely stored and encrypted, sustaining the project as a non-extractive sanctuary
• the project is committed to radical openness, non-extractive stewardship, and holding space for voices too often submerged beneath dominant consensus

PARADE makes no grand promises, nor does it seek resolution. It simply keeps the channel open — holding a continuous, borderless space for the raw, uncurated frequencies of human expression to echo. 

We also welcome individuals from all disciplines who wish to contribute their unique capabilities to help build and protect this digital commons.

Ultimately, the project revolves around an unresolved provocation:
If a procession has no destination, does the shared persistence of dissonance constitute a solidarity deeper than consensus?

The answer cannot be computed or theorized; it must be experienced. Join this living soundscape, lend the irreducible grain of your voice to the collective friction, and march alongside us.

Let us gather in diversity and march in unison.

PARADE website
PARADE Manifesto

See the AR experience in situ

Mobile Interaction Documentation

Desktop Interaction Documentation