About

Webtrail is a field notebook. A trail is a few sites on one subject, read in order, with a line on why each one earned its place. Someone walked the path before you and vouches for every stop on it.

How a trail is made

Every stop is a real site that was opened and read, not a search result that looked plausible. The stops are written to stand on their own, so the same stop can appear on more than one trail and still read correctly next to different neighbours. That is why they also live in the catalog as entries in their own right, and why each one carries the screenshot of the site it points at.

What is not here: no rankings, no affiliate links, no sponsored placements, no trackers, and no algorithm deciding what you see. The order of the stops is a route somebody chose, and the note under each one says why.

Who writes it

Brian Douglas. By day a senior consultant helping customers improve their IT landscape; in his free time he builds PackLite for hikers. The research and writing behind the stops comes out of a small content factory he runs on the side, and everything published here is read by a human before it lands.

Following along

New trails go out on the Atom feed. You can also start from all the trails or browse the catalog of stops by category or keyword.