Tiny Awards 2026 nominees are open

Once again, for the fourth time, nominations for this year’s Tiny Awards are now open. I love this weird little low-stakes contest that celebrates the “best of the small, poetic, creative, handmade web.” As before, the criteria is specific. Websites must be: Launched in the last 12 months, between July 2025 to July 2026 Non-commercial. No stores, no ads, no paid products/services. No agencies or brands. Individuals or groups of creators only. You own it. It must be a page you own and control. Not a Bluesky bot, not an Instagram feed, not a YouTube channel. Websites. It’s about the web! Websites only. No apps/downloads. I’m on the judging committee for the third time, joined by Depths of Wikipedia‘s Annie Rauwerda, Today in Tabs‘ Rusty Foster, Elle, Escape the Algorithm‘s Elan Ullendorff, and a bunch of other cool people. We’ll narrow down hundreds of your submissions to a shortlist of finalists, which the public will vote on in August, with the winner announced in September. I wrote a…