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Rebuilding the Web Gallery of Art.
The Web Gallery of Art, a virtual museum of European art, has been online since 1996, and I’m rebuilding it. These posts follow the rebuild in the order they were written: the public pre-alpha, the stack it runs on, how it serves Markdown to language models, and how its catalogue, image comments and biographies became one database.
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2026
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PART 01 OF 0421 AUG 2026
The Web Gallery of Art Is Taking Its Next Shape
The rebuilt Web Gallery of Art is now public as a pre-alpha at beta.wga.hu. Here's what has been rebuilt, what was kept, and how you can help. -
PART 02 OF 0408 OCT 2026
Why the Web Gallery of Art Runs on PocketBase, HTMX and Vanilla JavaScript
What the rebuilt Web Gallery of Art runs on (Go, PocketBase, SQLite, templ and htmx), and how a read-heavy catalogue ended up with such a small stack. -
PART 03 OF 0409 OCT 2026
How the Web Gallery of Art Serves Markdown to LLMs
How the Web Gallery of Art gives language models a plain Markdown version of every record: llms.txt, Accept negotiation, strict limits and edge caching. -
PART 04 OF 0427 OCT 2026
How the Web Gallery of Art's Data Was Processed
How the Web Gallery of Art's catalogue, image comments and biographies became one database without losing uncertain dates, names and places.
