The small web is beautiful

An intentionally quiet and unassuming (and empty) blog

Based on my talk for PragueJS meetup from February 2024

I've been thinking about the IndieWeb and the Indie web after reading a great post by @starbreaker. Here are some of my thoughts on the matter

I was welcomed to the 'small web' recently, which felt nice and led to some thoughts.

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).

This week Dave and Chris discuss test equipment, the Arduino acquisition, Zephyr, Altium pricing, private equity owning YouTube channels, audio circuits, and more!

A curated list of interesting links I have stumbled upon. b3nh0y7 - A personal website by Ben Hoyt, a software developer who writes about the beauty of the “small web” c45p4rwr3 - Criticism of Google Analytics’ tracking practices with alternative suggestions by Caspar Wrede h0r57m4nn - Java-related website by Cay S. Horstmann, a fellow Java developer with a lot of content on the matter r1b053 - An incredible website…handcrafted, full of interesting content biased towards the interests of a molecular biologist n3u574d7 - Work by Parymal Satyal exploring design, writing, and music; inspired my current web presence wh3r35y0ur3d - An interesting essay by Ed Zitron about the current state and future of LLMs 1m6_0001 - YouTube compilation of 2009-2012 “Send to YouTube” videos from the iPhone era 573ll1v0r35 - Arxiv research proposing efficient energy-harnessing methods for “Stellivores,” star-consuming civilizations 0umU4MU4 - Nature research demonstrating extrasolar comet Oumuamua’s acceleration resulted from hydrogen gas, not artificial propulsion

How I built my bookmark search site

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

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...

My personal DIY bookmarks app. Contribute to blakewatson/bookmarks development by creating an account on GitHub.

Why do we confine ourselves to a handful of apps when the web is so gigantic?

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

The internet, once a wild frontier of boundless possibility, has become increasingly dominated by a handful of powerful corporations. These tech giants, driven by profit and growth, have fundamentally altered the online landscape, raising concerns about data privacy, manipulation, and the very nature of online interaction. Everything is OWNED and CURATED by these corporations for profit and greed.

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

I’ve spent the last decade (or two) trying to write on a blog while also building the perfect blog. Those are two different hobbies and I’ve been treating th...

Plutôt que d'avoir à alimenter un serveur dédié, pourquoi ne pas utiliser directement ma box - qui devra être allumée quoi qu'il se passe - pour faire mon auto-hébergement web ?

Personal notes for week 14 of 2026

I meet a lot of nerds—some are even of the Computer Variety! Since I'm obsessed with RSS, my first1 question boils down to "do you have an RSS feed I...

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Yeah slop, but humans are still here

Take that Big Tech! I'm taking back my internet one small-web app at a time. This time I talk chat.

I'm saying this repeatedly: have your own website and domain. Platforms come and go.

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.