Themes

One page of real products — a landing page, a dashboard, a shop, a community feed, an article, a form, an app — every piece a live Facet component. Pick a base theme in the rail, move any token, and watch the whole wall restyle at once. When it looks right, copy the config.

01 · Landing page — Driftwood, sea-kayak rentals

driftwood

New for 2026 · night paddles

The sea, at your own pace.

Guided sea-kayak trips out of a small boathouse in Anjuna. No experience needed, no crowds allowed.

Book a paddle See the routes

OUTLOOK TRAVELLERCONDÉ NASTTHE KAYAK SESSIONLONELY PLANET

Dawn departures

On the water before the wind wakes up — glassy sea, empty coast.

Six boats, ever

Every trip caps at six paddlers and one guide. That is the whole company.

No experience needed

Twenty minutes of shore practice and you are seaworthy for the day.

DAY PASS

₹ 1,400

  • One guided trip
  • Boat, paddle and dry bag
  • Chai on the beach after

SEASON · RECOMMENDED

₹ 8,000/season

  • Unlimited trips, October to May
  • Priority on night paddles
  • Your name on a paddle hook
What if I cannot swim?

You wear a life jacket the whole time and we never go past the reef line. Half our regulars cannot swim.

What happens if the weather turns?

We call it by 6am and your booking moves to any other day, no questions.

Can kids come?

From eight years up, in a double kayak with an adult.

02 · Dashboard — Paisa, a personal-finance tracker

June at a glance

₹ 91,680SPENT · JUNE
₹ 10,400SAVED · JUNE
6.2%INFLATION · YOY
31TRANSACTIONS

₹ 1,00,000 of 2014 money, inflated year by year — drag the chart to read a value.

EntryCategoryAmount
Rent, IndiranagarHome48,000
Groceries, monthFood12,480
Goa bus, both waysTravel3,150
Power + internetHome4,320
Weekend eating outFood6,940

Your spending outran inflation this month

₹ 91,680

vs May
+9.4%
Biggest line
Rent · 52%
Live rates

Repo 6.5% · CPI 6.2% · USD 84.10 — refreshing from the exchange…

03 · Storefront — Kilnworks, small-batch ceramics

This month's firing

Thrown in Pondicherry, glazed in small batches. When a piece sells out it is gone — we do not rerun glazes.

Monsoon mug

340 ml, holds heat like a thermos, glazed the grey-blue of a July sky over the Bay.

₹ 850

Monsoon mug Monsoon glaze ₹ 1,700

Shipping, padded double box₹ 120
Total₹ 1,820
What if it arrives broken?

Send a photo within a week and we remake or refund it — kiln time is on us. It has happened four times in three years.

04 · Community — Perch, a birdwatching log

This morning on Perch

Seen or clearly heard, wild and unrestrained, by you, today. Feeder birds count. Zoo birds never do.

  • MG Painted stork, 40+ at Vedanthangal Meera G · the whole north tank is white with them right now Lifer
  • AT Shikra taking a drongo, mid-air Arjun T · Cubbon Park, near the bamboo grove, 6:40am 12 min
  • Big Year check-in: 212 of 300 species You are three weeks ahead of last year's pace

05 · Editorial — The Slow Web, a newsletter

THE SLOW WEB · ISSUE 14 · 7 MIN

Why slow software feels fast

Naledi M · 4 July 2026

The fastest app I use all day is a plain HTML page that a friend never finished. It has no spinner because it has nothing to spin about: the page arrives whole, the numbers are already there, and the only thing left to do is read.

We spent a decade teaching people that software breathes — that a moment of skeleton screens is the price of anything happening at all. But the waiting was never physics. Most of it was ceremony: a bundle asking for another bundle, a client rebuilding what the server already knew.

A page that arrives whole is not retro. It is what fast always looked like.
from issue 14
Time-to-read, measured across forty sites: the plain pages win before the frameworks finish parsing.

None of this is an argument against ambition. It is an argument about where the ambition goes — into the words and the numbers, or into the machinery that delays them.

Read the archive

06 · Onboarding — Getaway, a trip-budget planner

Plan the trip

Uploading last year's list…

Throw away the Gokarna draft? The budget and packing list go with it.

07 · App suite — Fieldkit, a personal toolbox

Fieldkit

Small tools for being outside

Updated this week

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08 · The close — CTA band and footer

Build it in your theme.

Skin Lab

Every theme in light and dark, side by side, all rendering the same real slice of interface — heading, text with a link, both button ranks, a labelled field, a result row. Choose a skin by looking, and see the library's central idea at a glance: identical markup, ten different results. Each panel is a real page pulling the same facet.css this site uses.