searchmysite.net - the open source search engine and search as a service for user-submitted personal and independent websites. The searchmysite.net search engine is a niche search, focussing on the "indieweb" or "small web" or "digital gardens", i.e. non-commercial content, primarily personal and independent websites. If you want to research people's personal experiences of or deep-dives into certain topics, hobbies or interests, then you may find the searchmysite.net public search useful to avoid having to wade through all the marketing websites and blog spam that fill the big search engines

Remember the internet? One millennial's jaded digital nostalgia.

The personal website of Michal Zelazny. Reflections on life, society, technology and the connections between them.

For a while now, I've been slowing working on a refactor of the codebase of this blog. At one point, I got caught in exciting world of performance and I wanted to make sure I had a super fast pageload. Currently, my CSS is added inline in the HTML and I found myself thinking "no one will be able to read this".

Engineer with a passion for Design, Dieter Rams, Watches, Coffee and Bauhaus

The chronicles of a self-taught designer and developer.

Sociotechnologist, writer and speaker working on tech and its social impact. Communist. Feminist. Antifascist. Luddite.

A popular old essay about finding calm and rhythm online.

introduction If you surf the modern "small web" to any extent you've encountered 88x31 buttons - a staple of late 90s and early 2000's websites under…

Exactly eight years ago, I published “Hello there!” on this website. Since then, I have published hundreds of articles. Persistent writing is excellent for many reasons and is the best thing I have ever done for my personal and professional development.

This is a set of three core commitments derived from the practical experiences of the Yesterweb staff after two years of community organization. They concentrate what we have learned and how we operate into a general template that can be applied to any community at a foundational level. We propose these commitments as the basis of unity for those individuals or groups who wish to move in the same direction, while allowing a diversity of focus, interests, and missions.

a post from alan w. smith

It’s with a near certainty and small sense of frustration that I say there was something that came before, but memory issues preclude me having any definitive sense of precisely, or even imprecisely, what it was. All I know is that it existed—or, at least,...

Harry Cresswell is a professional Front-end web developer based in London, England. Read technical articles and notes on design and code.

The internet can feel like it's built for speed. You join a new service and you're presented with a feed. The name tells you all you need to know. The feed is the actor. You are the thing that is acted upon. You don't control the feed. Your role is

Presenting my thoughts, stories and ideas to the world

The web was established with the best of intentions. The basic idea was that if everyone could share their thoughts and ideas with the world, the best ones would be vetted and float to the top. The bad ones would be ignored and pushed to the bottom.

I write about product, sales, marketing, philosophy, and personal epiphanies.

This site crawls the links between 88x31s on the Internet. Building a graph of the Internet, one button at a time

This chain letter-esque post has been doing the rounds, and in the spirit of trying to rebuild my blogging muscle I thought what better to blog about than blogging? This post is a bit of a love letter to having your own place on the web, no matter how simple.

Rules: 1. No HTML tags of any sort. "View source" must equal that which is displayed in the browser. 2. You can use an index.html page to redirect to an actual text page, if necessary.

thoughts.page is a platform for hosting a small webpage for your thoughts. it's basically like twitter, but nobody can @ you. if you want to see what a thoughts page might look like, check out my thoughts, evy's thoughts, or the thoughts webring :) thoughts pages are an attempt at a quieter, slower, more personal internet. a little space on the web, just for you.

Design, dev, cats, mgmt, tarot.

Personal writing, links, and other things by Nadia Asparouhova.

There’s an increasing chasm dividing the modern web. On one side, the commercial, monopolies-riddled, media-adored web. A web which has only one objective: making us click. It measures clicks, optimises clicks, generates clicks. It gathers as much information as it could about us and spams every second of our life

a manually curated collection of neat indie websites :)

Pedro del Corro is a designer and design director specializing in various fields including identity systems, art direction, design strategy, campaigns, events, iconography, product visuals, print, and the intersection of product design and brand.

Hisam — is a software developer, voracious reader, active (trying his best) writer