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<main>
  <header>
    <span class="orbit">✳</span>
    <div>
      <h1>the small web</h1>
      <p>people, not platforms.</p>
    </div>
    <b>EST. WHENEVER<br />YOU STARTED.</b>
  </header>
  <section class="directory-intro">
    <h2>A little door<br />to somewhere <i>else.</i></h2>
    <p>Handmade pages. Personal obsessions.<br />Places with a person behind them.</p>
  </section>
  <div class="search">
    <label for="find">FIND A CORNER</label
    ><input id="find" placeholder="Try art, code or garden" /><button id="change">
      Explore art →
    </button>
  </div>
  <section class="sites">
    <article data-search="moss & margins garden books a garden notebook with too many side quests.">
      <div style="background: #dde6bd"><span>✿</span><b>Moss & Margins</b></div>
      <p>A garden notebook with too many side quests.</p>
      <small>garden / books</small>
    </article>
    <article data-search="pixel picnic art pixels tiny pictures of ordinary things.">
      <div style="background: #e6c4d5"><span>▦</span><b>Pixel Picnic</b></div>
      <p>Tiny pictures of ordinary things.</p>
      <small>art / pixels</small>
    </article>
    <article
      data-search="useful little things code tools programs that scratch a very specific itch."
    >
      <div style="background: #c6d8e1"><span>⌘</span><b>Useful Little Things</b></div>
      <p>Programs that scratch a very specific itch.</p>
      <small>code / tools</small>
    </article>
    <article data-search="the night desk art writing stories, sketches and late-night notes.">
      <div style="background: #c6c4dc"><span>☾</span><b>The Night Desk</b></div>
      <p>Stories, sketches and late-night notes.</p>
      <small>art / writing</small>
    </article>
    <article
      data-search="a very small library books reading an annotated shelf of things worth keeping."
    >
      <div style="background: #e8d5b4"><span>▥</span><b>A Very Small Library</b></div>
      <p>An annotated shelf of things worth keeping.</p>
      <small>books / reading</small>
    </article>
    <article data-search="patch notes code garden what the tomatoes and the terminal taught me.">
      <div style="background: #c5d9ba"><span>↟</span><b>Patch Notes</b></div>
      <p>What the tomatoes and the terminal taught me.</p>
      <small>code / garden</small>
    </article>
  </section>
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  <footer class="demo-note">Fictional brand · local interface demo · no information is sent</footer>
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