✎ Ink & Leaf

a pure‑html journal · words, leaves & slow web

Strolling through the digital garden

A blog should feel like a notebook on your desk – clean, simple, without unnecessary scripts. Just words, occasional images, and the right amount of whitespace. This page uses only HTML and a pinch of style, yet it holds everything needed for the urge to write. Sometimes going back to <article> and <h2> is a statement in itself.

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Coffee stains & old markup

While cleaning my bookmarks I stumbled upon my very first personal site: raw HTML, inline styles, and even a few <font> tags. Back then we used tables for layout, but everyone wrote with genuine care. Nowadays we have frameworks, yet sometimes I long for that simplicity — like coffee stains on draft paper, an honest imperfection. This post carries no advanced tech, just two lines of a poem and a comment that looks like gibberish.

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Ozu’s tatami shots & blog typography

Ozu’s fixed camera, the tatami‑level angles, the pillow shots – everything breathes stability. I often think that an ideal blog works the same way: no shouting, consistent margins, letting the words appear quietly. I love that feeling of “nothing much, yet everything”. This very page, with its sidebar like a wooden veranda and the posts like sliding doors…

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