The “small web” is bigger than you might think

https://kevinboone.me/small_web_is_big.html

#SmallWeb #SmolWeb

lots of ppl on the smallweb tend to avoid any kind of fancy JavaScript stuff on their sites, and are more less in favor of a web 1.0 style content, but I wonder if there might be some value in tools that allow people to interconnect their sites with their friends through JS and open standards like RSS. It would be like taking the concept of webrings to a more integrated level.

I wonder how far you could take it? I'm working on a basic tool that lets you show off the recent blog posts by your friends on your own site, but maybe there's room for even more tooling that could possibly make running a site into something more similar to dynamic content of social media, but without all the associated baggage?

Idk, but I do feel rather excited about what I'm working on anyways, even if it doesn't expand into an entire frontier for smallweb stuff.

#SmallWeb #blogging #webdev #JS #RSS #OpenStandards #web #weblog

Easy Online Profiles with Asciidoctor

Want an online presence, but you don't want to build a website, or blog, or self-host? With really basic terminal dabbling and asciidoctor you can quickly make a minimal, simple profile where you own your data.

https://readbeanicecream.surge.sh/2026/03/13/easy-online-profiles-with-asciidoctor/

#indieweb #smallweb #socialmedia #asciidoctor #plaintext #asciidoc

📝 New Post: I'll Name This Post Later

What I've been up to this month. Reading, watching, listening, collecting, and exploring interesting links across the web.

🔥 https://flamedfury.com/posts/ill-name-this-post-later/

#Indieweb #Smallweb #Personalweb #Blogging #Lifeonweb #Bookmarks #Linkdump

Kagi's Small Web just got a big upgrade! Introducing browser extensions, mobile apps and categories:

https://blog.kagi.com/small-web-updates

#Kagi #SmallWeb #Blogs #Apps

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I could have written a memo, but instead I built a bookmarklet for adding products to the wishlist on my website.

#personalwebsite #smallWeb

My hosting provider provides autogit deployment of my website. I just can't be bothered to figure out how to set it up. Somehow it seems more convoluted than the gitlab cicd pipeline i have now. #indieweb #SmallWeb

Updated my Obsidian Vault setup, updated the blog post about it as well: https://bryanhogan.com/blog/obsidian-vault

Full template is on GitHub: https://github.com/BryanHogan/obsidian-vault-template

#ObsidianMD #Obsidian #PKM #SmallWeb

Me alegra que exista Bearblog, porque es una plataforma minimalista y fácil de usar que permite que cualquiera pueda tener el suyo propio de manera muy simple.

Pero me está empezando a preocupar una tendencia a diferenciar Bearblog del resto de la "blogosfera". Se organizan desafíos (challenges) o "festivales" invitando a usuarios de Bearblog a participar escribiendo cosas según consignas y temas sugeridos. Esto está ok, son una "plataforma" y tienen la libertad de hacerlo, y de hecho son propuestas que surgen desde los mismos usuarios, no desde la plataforma en sí.

Obviamente todo es público y cualquiera puede tomar las consignas y usarlas, pero me da un poco de mala espina que se esté empezando a crear una especie de "iudentidad" diferenciada dentro de Bearblog. Ya viví situaciones similares y la experiencia me advierte que esto puede terminar tomando un rumbo problemático.

Espero que no caigan en el sectarismo y no terminen fragmentando otra vez la comunidad que está con esfuerzo empezando a resurgir alrededor de la indie web.

#blog #blogs #bearblog #indieweb #smallweb

My current hobbies are
- Finishing two songs
- Adding a million GIFs to my personal website
- making little lucky knots like my aunties taught me years ago
- wontons
- occasional game of Deadlock

Life is ok for now

#chiptune #slowweb #slowinternet #SmallWeb

https://cyanidedansen.neocities.org/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jimniels/116197448348633013

This is a nice use of #WebOrigami to liberate photos from #Instagram and create a personal #smallweb site!

I was so disappointed when IG deprecated their Basic Display API last year because we can't have nice things, but (for now) they still let users export their own data

Origami is great for this sort of fetch-and-transform task

i have added a light theme to my website! i'm sorry it hasn't been there from the beginning.. due to how handpawcrafted some of the pages are, it took me two days

there's also a new drawing on the front page! hope it brings you some soft feelings..

https://keeri.place

#SmallWeb #FurryArt #PixelArt

Online conversations can spiral because strong emotions travel far.

A short reflection on why Driftya treats mood differently and keeps it private.

https://driftya.com/content/why-mood-matters-in-online-conversations

#smallweb #digitalminimalism #socialmedia

I couldn’t help myself. I’ve made some more funky web buttons to adorn websites with!

They’re such fun to put together, and the size constraint presents a lovely challenge. If anyone has any requests, I’d be open to hearing them.

#88x31 #IndieWeb #SmallWeb

RE: https://fedi.vale.rocks/objects/9f7c48e2-ee46-4095-9b8b-7dac8021099d

Really enjoying this album that I found recently. It is electronic music with a retro vibe and some of the talking clips sound like they are from Computer Chronicles. Very tastefully inserted in some songs.

#music #retrocomputing #techno #electronic #blog #smallweb #indieweb

https://basic.bearblog.dev/out-of-memory/

I really like personal homepages and have quite a list of them bookmarked. I'll post one every week unless I fall behind this schedule. 😉 So here's Cool Personal Homepages #CPHP Vol. 63: "rtb.net" https://redthebean.net/

PS: @resl is on the fediverse!

#SmallWeb #indieweb #homepage #blog #art #collage #democracy #politics #fundraising #screenshot

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Edit: You people are amazing! There are so many sites linked below that it will take me quite a while to get through all of them. And I will get through all of them and reply to everyone.
No one can rightully say the (small) web is dead. It is not and you all and many many more are proof of that.

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Ok, people, give me your blogs.
Your personal hobby blogs. Your e-zines. Your websites. Heck, even your wikis. (I am interested in those but have not yet wrapped my head around them.)
I am most interested in the hobby sites, made my non-professional web devs. The ones you code away at in your spare time. Preferably static, but share anyway if it's not. And if you're a pro and have a personal hobby site, share away too! The more the merrier.

Even if I already know your site, share anyway because there might be people who do not have come across it yet.

3, 2, 1, go!

To start, here's mine: https://theresmiling.eu

#personalWebsite #personalBlog #blog #blogging #personalWeb #smallWeb #indieWeb

I've finally got my #OmgLol page at https://lucascantor.com looking exactly how I want it, with custom CSS to match my blog

...which I've also migrated from AWS to #BunnyNet

...while migrating from Google to #Proton too!

#SmallWeb #HumaneTech #Privacy

Wrote a short reflection on why engagement is so hard when you are new to a platform.

https://driftya.com/content/why-is-it-so-hard-to-get-engagement-when-you-re-new-to-a-social-platform

#SocialMedia #OnlineCommunities #DigitalCulture #SmallWeb

I wrote a blog post about my process involved in redesigning the PlugBrain app's logo. I talk about open-source, app blockers, accessible formats, and general Linux tips.

https://futurehorizondesign.net.au/posts/2026-02-26-A-Logo-Redesign-For-An-Open-Source-Project.html

#inkscape #FOSS #linux #illustration #graphicdesign #vector #GPL #indieweb #blog #blogging #smallweb #rss #logo

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There's a new feature on #BurgeonLab right before CNY! It's the Guestbook page I've been longing to have since I started my blog. 🥳

➡️ https://burgeonlab.com/guestbook/

Thanks @zacharykai.net and Zak https://html-chunder.neocities.org/ for being the first to sign it.

It'll make me a happy camper if you decide to sign it too! 😇

#webdev #smallweb #indieweb #personalblog #personalsite #webdevelopment #blogs #blog

New blog post

Building your first smolweb page

A simple news article that takes ten seconds to load and eats 50 MB of data. You've seen that. We all have. Mountains of JavaScript, giant CSS frameworks, third-party trackers, custom fonts pulled from remote servers... all of that to display a few paragraphs of text.

The smolweb pushes back against that...

https://adele.pages.casa/md/blog/building-your-first-smolweb-page.md

#smolweb #smallweb #html #howto

My Faves site has a new look, too! It should be totally mobile-friendly now~ 🎉

✨ https://nickle4apickle.neocities.org/faves/index-f ✨

#smallweb #indieweb #neocities #personalwebsite

📝 February 2026 Recap

Talking about what I did in February.

https://sainthood.xyz/blog/posts/february-2026-recap

#IndieWeb #SmallWeb #PersonalWeb #PersonalWebsite #blog #blogging #monthlyRecap #bloggingRecap

Today's #ScreenshotSaturday! We've started a new series on our brand new #blog called #ShiritaiYokaiShokai, where we introduce different yōkai that appear in #Hamayumishi. This time is the fearful Otoroshi! Or is that Osoroshi? Whatever it is, it's terrifying!

https://blog.nicegear.games/posts/2026-02-14-Shiritai-Yokai-Shokai-The-Confusing-Otoroshi.html

#Blogging #IndieGame #IndieDev #GameDev #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #yokai