What is the Small Web?

Why I split my site into `/blog` and `/dev/random` and what changed about polish as a signal once AI gets involved.

The internet has become a noisy, overly complicated mess full of sites pushing cryptocurrency scams, optimizing for AI generated drivel and ad delivery, and intrusive tracking and profiling. The big social media sites like X, LinkedIn, Medium, and Facebook punish users who post links to things outside of their walled garden networks and promote content that is authored directly on their sites. Maybe this is a case of “old man yelling at cloud”. but most of what made the web interesting and special in the early days has been lost.

The index of ring.muhokama.fun

Sebastian Arnold is a multifaceted artist and developer exploring the intersections of technology, creativity, human communication, music, and machines. As the ‘mad scientist drummer’, he is touring and producing music as a one-man band and uses his drum kit to interact with sequencers and sythesizers.

Based on my talk for PragueJS meetup from February 2024

Thoughts about the (d)evolution of blog interactions

as nerdy as needed.

Don't Contribute Anything Relevant in Web Forums Like Reddit

I recently announced my new book project, focusing on ethical FOSS social media, and I'm trying an experiment in writing it openly. That's Goal 2 of this blog (Goal 1 being discussions of my actually using FOSS to complete this task). To that end, I've decided to share items I've found as I do my research.

The web is fucked and there’s nothing we can do about it. Kev Quirk looks back fondly at Web 1.0.

✨ In This Edition ✨ 📟 Short-Form Content: RIP Sora; AI ""efficiencies""; Meta has been ordered to pay; Pokemon Go-ddammit we were all just feeding a visual ...

The whole #Web is based on #HTML. So, why don't we value it being written well and semantically meaningful? MySpace proved anyone can write it - yet now we don't seem to care about writing it well. That's sad.

Small Web (or smallweb) is a term used in a 1999 article, a hosting service, two consulting services, a May 2020 article, a Aug 2020 blog post that describes a subset of IndieWeb principles, a HackerNews summary of Gemini, a curation of indie websites, most recently a Kagi Small Web initiative, and has variants smol web (smolweb) and smol net (smolnet).

smolweb.org promotes simple unbloated web. It provides resources to actors who want to participate.

Some thoughts on personal websites and reminiscing about the past.

My thoughts on the web0 manifesto, web3, big-tech, and the future of the decentralised web.

Why I moved back from a big blogging platform to a static-site generator and joined the Small Web.

The web is mind-bogglingly huge; let's look at how personal websites can thrive and interact despite that.

I started writing this post in October, when Mozilla announced that it's going to become an adtech company. I got distracted by the professoring business, an...

A brief, perhaps unoriginal, plea to have fun sharing and building on the web. (updated)

Many yearn for the “good old days” of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better — and if anything, it would be easier now than it ever was.

A vision for the "small web", small software, and small architectures.

A tool for creating Small Web places. Contribute to small-tech/place development by creating an account on GitHub.

A very simple Kitten toy in ~60 lines of code for drawing together on a 20×20 grid.

Automatically-provisioned TLS certificates for Node.js servers using Let’s Encrypt.

Place: a Small Web social network. (A peer-to-peer Web/personal web social network.)

A zero-dependency, transparent, in-memory, streaming write-on-update JavaScript database for the Small Web that persists to a JavaScript transaction log.

A web development kit that’s small, purrs, and loves you.

We’re a tiny and independent two-person not-for-profit based in Ireland. We’re working on building the Small Web.

A look back through web-browser history, as I test my site against the browsers of the past.

Your guide to getting the most out of your small-scale setup.

Personal notes for week 14 of 2026

I wanted my Atom feed to look prettier. I re-discovered some old skills of mine in the process.

Cool Links privacy privacy guides privacy tools small web & indie web what is the small web? rediscovering the small web the small web is beautiful some web rings web0 the 1mb club the 512kb club the 250kb club 32bit cafe this website is killing the planet against a user hostile web 100 things you can do on your personal website 100 more personal website ideas digital garden search my site miscellaneous contrast rebellion brutalist web design use plain text motherfucking website better motherfucking website even better motherfucking website perfect motherfucking website the best motherfucking website secure motherfucking website uses this css bed water css newcss blogroll.org uses tech wiby nohello midnight pub

Thoughts on Robin Sloan’s analogy that computer programming for yourself is like cooking at home

Sharing my privacy-friendly and offline toolkit for the fans of prose.

Building the Small Web: a public space of individually-owned and controlled places.

Kagi Small Web. Contribute to kagisearch/smallweb development by creating an account on GitHub.

Kagi Small Web. Contribute to kagisearch/smallweb development by creating an account on GitHub.

In this blog post I’d like to share with you how I self-published Appreciation Jar, a gratitude journaling app for couples. If you want to see how the app looks before you start to read, here is a short demo video: The idea My partner and I were looking for ways to be more mindful of each other and share positive affirmations. We originally started with a physical jar that we dropped small hand written notes in (I guess you could call it the original “MVP“). One late evening, in a particularly developer-focused mood, I decided to take the hammer […]