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The Dent is a blog on the Pika blogging platform

Big Tech broke the internet, and this old man’s got a few things to say about it.

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Looking back at the year 2025 to see what went well, what needs work, and what needs stopping.

AI-generated writing feels different from personal written content. The less polished something reads, the more I trust it nowadays.

Technical artist. Blogging since 1999.

When every discussion feels flat, how do you fluff it up? The answer, to me, is to eat fewer pancakes.

Three years ago, Kagi officially launched with a splash on popular technology forum Hacker News (to which we are eternally grateful for helping put Kagi on the map). The top comment in the thread said: I've...

This is my blog where I post all of my most recent writing for you, for free. Good stuff here, seriously.

A new month has arrived

The personal website and blog of Nathan Upchurch, where I write about incense, free and open source software, design, vegan cooking, music, and all sorts of other topics that I find interesting.

Before algorithmic bias and advertising took over, search felt different. Kagi is trying to take us back — stripping out ads and SEO spam, and actively promoting the small web that most engines quietly suppress.

Bookmarks A simple, ever expanding list of links I like. Have fun exploring! Blogs https://82mhz.net/ https://akselmo.dev/ https://ash.ms/ https://bbbhltz.codeberg.page/ https://benjaminhollon.com/ https://boehs.org/ https://brr.fyi/ https://claytonerrington.com/ https://dallincrump.com/ https://joelchrono.xyz/ https://kevquirk.com/ https://lazybea.rs/ https://localghost.dev/ https://notes.jeddacp.com/ https://nthp.me/ https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ https://orbitalmartian.codeberg.page/ https://theinternet.review/ https://www.marginalia.nu/ Blog discovery https://bearblog.dev/discover/ — Bear Blog discovery feed https://blogosphere.app/ — Aggregating the best blogs from around the web https://blogroll.club/ — A blog directory https://blogroll.org/ — Human curated list of personal and independent blogs https://bubbles.town/ — Personal blog posts ranked by community voting https://bukmark.club/ — A directory of websites that have a curated collection of bookmarks or links https://kagi.com/smallweb — Discover recent posts from the small web https://powrss.com/ - A public RSS feed aggregator with a mission to support the open, independent web. https://rss-is-dead.lol/ — Give it your fediverse handle and discover RSS feeds from your network Neat things https://clew.se/ — A search engine created by Amin Hollon https://cobalt.tools/ — Handy no-nonsense video downloader https://doodad.dev/dither-me-this/ — Online image dithering tool https://modem.io/blog/blog-monetization/ — How To Monetize a Blog https://modernfontstacks.com — System font stack CSS https://noclip.website/ — Fly around video game levels https://omnitools.app/ — A collection of in-browser tools for working with images, text, video, and more https://search.marginalia.nu/ — A small web search engine https://serenityos.org/ — A neat Unix-like OS https://slowroads.io/ — Chill browser driving game https://tools.rmv.fyi/ — A collection of small, low stakes, and low effort tools https://www.haiku-os.org/ — OS in

I’m old enough to remember when you had to search the internet using a portal such as Yahoo!, Excite or Alta Vista. I stopped using these when Google first...

I’m not a huge fan of Kagi's products and services. Their web search is not free. Kagi Translate seems to be temporarily free, and it usually performs great translations, except when it hallucinates or when using the app, you give it an image, and instead of returning a verbatim translation, Kagi Translate makes a whole...

A couple of weeks ago VonGiorno made a post with links to other blog posts which made the trending page on Bear Blog, and they wrote an update with some refl...

TL;DRTheGood:整洁有序、反内容农场、高度可定制的搜索结果草根引擎中少见可接受的中文结果完善而不招摇的AI功能TheBad:面对「生活日常」类检索的响应比较木讷定价过高TheUgly:搜索引 ...

Software, projects & software projects. Providing helpful technical posts and a broad collection of reading material.

As a fan, and user, of Kagi, I decided to give their browser Orion a try as my daily driver, only to want to tear my hair out after under two days of use.

The indie web means the return of gifs, funky cursors, and personal websites

Follow <a href="https://micro.blog/paulw">@paulw on Micro.blog</a>.

ecrire-genese Publié le {{ post_published_date }} Tout allait très vite en 1995 lorsque j’ouvrais ma première page web. Lycos était le principal moteur...

ecrire-genese Published on {{ post_published_date }} Everything was moving very quickly in 1995 when I launched my first web page. Lycos was the lead...

I was browsing around the Kagi small web and found that I was on a blog powered by Bear. A couple things caught my eye. The blog was nice, readable, and f...

Interesting bits of information and editorial, evolving online since 1995.

Independent blog posts, ranked by the community. Good stuff bubbles up. The rest pops.

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A guide to tools and resources for joining the independent web movement. Discover blogging platforms like Pika, search engines that prioritize small sites, directories for finding like-minded creators, and more.

My commitment to building a better internet through independent web principles, open-source projects, and community-driven technology.

Brandon's Toots from Mastodon

One of the small pleasures, for me, about the web in 2024 is the sheer amount of interesting independent and niche products and services that are available. There are some fantastic...

I have frequently ranted about the suffering induced by algorithmic news feeds. I'm even rantier in person, I can assure you. I found myself nodding vigorous...

I was tipped off on the bearblog trending page about Bubbles, a fun new site for discovering good blogs in the indieweb space. It's sort of like Hacker News ...

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

2024-10-16 Update: this has been fixed in the upstream Kagi API (https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/issues/279) via an optional ?limit= query

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If you’re not using Kagi SmallWeb, you’re missing the best of the internet. While two-thirds of posts are currently, “I accidentally wiped my Keychain, deleted my backups, and posted my ‘weird porn’ folder to Instagram with OpenClaw, and you can too!” inbetween are the sort of thoughtful, obsessive,

How we built hugo-kagi-smallweb — a reusable Hugo module for the Kagi Small Web webring — and the performance problem that made every page take 16 seconds to build.

I’m a little bored with my site’s appearance, but also couldn’t think of one look that would be better, so inspired by (maga)zine layouts and other people’s beautiful sites, I’ve tried to give myself more flexibility to try out ideas, good and bad. Perhaps it’ll inspire others to try as well.

Every now and then I am reminded how wonderful the web can be. Amidst the constant enshittification, in the face of all the AI slop and the death by clickbait, you can still find gems like Jazz Collector. A terrific podcast from a community radio station. Great music, and a knowledgeable and passionate host. And a really good website. Jazz Collector HT to Kagi smallweb for the discovery.

My super secret curated lists

The creative power of walking, agency, brains vs computers, the small web, publishing imperfection, mixtapes, teleporting and why chewing sounds drive you crazy.

Pluribus We were watching Pluribus for the last 10 days and finished the first season today. I have mixed feelings about the show. I especially found the first few episodes hard to watch because I …

Nothing on the internet is private. We all know that. But to what extent is it not private? And are we powerless to do anything about it? I personally don...

I commonly hear people claim that "blogging is dead" but I disagree. Yes, short-form video is eating the world and our attention spans have taken a direct...

And some day ago I find that I am in the Kagi Small Web and I love the blog selection

搜索引擎或许注定就是一个倾向于自然垄断的市场，但 Kagi 的使命也不是撬开由巨头把手的大门。像一把精致的钥匙，Kagi 能为一部分不愿视角被局限的人开启一扇窗，这就足以成为存在的意义和可尊重的成就。

Some RSS feeds are fantastic but far too noisy to add to most RSS readers directly. Without serious filtering, you'd get swamped with more posts than you cou...

Hi, I'm Amy. I'm a dinosaur in the tech world - I've been a software or web developer in one form or another since the late 90's. I still love what I do,...

Kagi’s Small Web has taken me on one of the more delightful Internet journeys I’ve had in seemingly decades. They are absolutely on to something here.

Every few months (or years) I show back up here on the candler blog, tap the mic a couple times, and promise to revive a regular posting practice. I’m old enough to know that’s a promise I can’t keep, so I won’t make it this time. And yet, the siren call of writing online has reached my ears once again. So sure, I’ll fire up the engines here and see what happens.

Away from the noise of social media, the Internet is still brimming with great stuff to read. The old way of finding a feed reader, subscribing to some sites, and coming back on occasion to be wowe…

I’ve read a handful of posts that nostalgically remember how the web used to be, and express dismay at the “walled gardens” that have overtaken the Internet as a whole. Since the purpose of this website is to have my own Internet island and also to be a part of the “classic” web of home cooked text websites and blogs, I want to explain: “why?”. The Desire to Share People, hobbyists, creators, thinkers of a particular subject - many want to freely share their thoughts and expertise to help others.

A curated collection of Naty's favourite websites and creators, and inspiring blogs.

You don't need to be a developer to own your corner of the internet. A guide for writers, poets, and creators who want to escape algorithmic feeds and reclaim their digital presence. No computer science degree required.

Another long gap, another redesign. I've been thinking about perfectionism, the small web, and why I stopped writing.

While browsing the web I often came across the term “indieweb”. I still don’t fully understand it, but I surely love its philosophy as well as the small web, Web 1.0, etc. That’s why I first created this blog on Bearblog. The Tech More recently I learned about microformats2 and how they could transform static websites like mine into precious gold mines. They can provide simple commenting systems with Fediverse integration, show the likes of a webpage, or just the mentions. About the latter, webmentions by Aaron are the ones that struck my attention first.

Hyper-minimal stumbler using Kagi Smallweb's smallweb.txt as data source

Card of the Now Ace of Swords from Modern Witch Tarot Under Construction The site has been up for about two months now; it's essentially feature-complete... and yet, I still have an "Under Construc

What is Small Web? While there’s no single, perfect definition, we like to define the Small Web as personal blogs, independent videos, webcomics, and other authentic spaces created for non-commercial purposes, usually for self-expression or community building. Basically, sites in the Small Web exist to share and entertain, not manipulate algorithms or boost corporate interests...

A publication on the reasons, the tipping point, and beliefs that led to the creation of this website.

A Small Web meeting place

A tiny, decentralised tool you can host with just two files to explore the small web

Small Web, the non-commercial part of the internet made by real people, has always been at the heart of what we do at Kagi. Today, we're adding to the Small Web experience with new browser extensions,...

As a part of our ongoing pursuit to humanize the web, we are pleased to announce the launch of the Kagi Small Web initiative. What is Kagi Small Web? To begin with, while there is no...

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.

The Indie Web is a movement of independent people on the web, each curatingtheir own patch of the internet. Sometimes these patches are called blogs, orgarde...

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