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Kagi Search Help

An intentionally quiet and unassuming (and empty) blog

Reclaim the web from clutter. Get ad-free search, private browsing, and powerful tools that respect your data.

A list of resources I use to discover new blogs.

Reclaim the web from clutter. Get ad-free search, private browsing, and powerful tools that respect your data.

Reclaim the web from clutter. Get ad-free search, private browsing, and powerful tools that respect your data.

Kagi Search Help

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 collection of interesting links.

I really, really like the Arc browser. But as I alluded to in this post, I have some reservations regarding it, and don’t feel like it’s going in a direction that I like. In the post, I said that I might try SigmaOS again — and I am. 1 I mentioned this in their community Slack, and their CEO, Mahyad, asked me what about Arc’s direction I don’t like. I must say, the dev team seems very active, nice, and open to input! So this post is my reply to his question. (And here’s a link straight to the TL;DR at the bottom.) Hi, Mahyad — and thanks for asking! I wrote a blog post called «I Just Want A Nice Browser!», which might give you a hint, heh. And let me also say that I’m a bit worried about your direction as well — but I’ll come back to that. 😉 Two fundamentals I don’t love, but that I don’t need to go too much into I don’t love that Arc is built on Chromium — as I think Google has more than enough power over the web as it is. I’m not against supporting any VC funded company — but in combination with an unclear business model, I become more skeptical and worried if our incentives align. 2 My main issue, though, is regarding AI

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Also in this week’s Installer: ChatGPT and the Quest headset get even better, and we’re all thinking about the Roman Empire.

Another HWC Düsseldorf has taken place this week, where we shared what we’ve been up to with our personal sites. Nina continued to write more and more for her homepage as well as work on the code. She started adding music to her blog posts. Jochen continues to make selfhosted tools and recently added a (private) “Archive” site where he adds podcasts episodes to, and transcribes the audio into text. I recently added the latest Polaroid to my homepage.

In early September, I found myself in an emotional slump. For the first time since late 2019, I was overcome by crippling anxiety and disheartenment. It’s not that I hadn’t experienced anxiety since 2019, but I had never reached this level of intensity (which isn’t a bad accomplishment considering I had to navigate a global pandemic). Fortunately, I have some experience with these situations, so I was able to regain control in a week instead of the three months it used to take.

Time on the Doomsday Clock, Personal website spaces, and AT&T outage.

As someone who values privacy and the open web, I’ve been fascinated by the growing movement away from centralised platforms toward more personal, user-controlled online experiences. What surprised me recently was discovering just how many people are embracing these concepts without even knowing their names. IndieWeb The IndieWeb is a community of people who own their websites and content rather than posting to third-party platforms (like Medium, Substack, etc). It’s built on principles like:

An outline of some grass-roots reform movements that are trying to humanize the Internet

As I've <a href="https://bygones.bearblog.dev/i-miss-the-internet/">mentioned in this blog already</a>, I miss the bygone days of the Internet. I yearn for m...

Discover the small web - personal blogs, independent YouTube channels, and webcomics from genuine humans on the internet.

Reclaim the web from clutter. Get ad-free search, private browsing, and powerful tools that respect your data.

Reclaim the web from clutter. Get ad-free search, private browsing, and powerful tools that respect your data.

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).

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

My wife the other day was looking up haircuts for our two year old and walked up to me showing me her phone and asked, "is this an AI child". As she kept sc...

All of my new tools and other findings from 2024.

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

Design principles for collective knowledge systems—permanence, provenance, permission, and placement—that enable robust networks for evidence-based decision making.

After losing all of my RSS feeds, I've finally found a good alternative to build back my collection.

Discover the small web - personal blogs, independent YouTube channels, and webcomics from genuine humans on the internet.

What if the small web could discover itself?

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.

Or, for a more regional greeting: G’day.[^1] I’ve been thinking of starting a blog for a while now. I love to write, and I’ve kept a digital journal f...

I’m pretty stoked that this very blog was added to Kagi’s Small Web initiative. As a result, traffic from Kagi went up many folds since then! A screenshot of Umami showing the traffic coming from Kagi. It was basically 0 before March.

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...

Discover the small web - personal blogs, independent YouTube channels, and webcomics from genuine humans on the internet.

Design principles for collective knowledge systems—permanence, provenance, permission, and placement—that enable robust networks for evidence-based decision making.

<img src="https://kagi.com/smallweb/static/UseKagiV4C.gif" style="display: block; margin: 0 auto;"> I should start by saying that Kagi is a paid product. ...

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.

Discover the small web - personal blogs, independent YouTube channels, and webcomics from genuine humans on the internet.

Reclaim the web from clutter. Get ad-free search, private browsing, and powerful tools that respect your data.

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...

A list of resources I use to discover new blogs.