LAlarrysalibra·Dec 11, 2023
Try out kagi...they have a filter for "smallweb" posts: https://kagi.com/smallweb
The list of sites is on github: https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb
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Kagi Small Web
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| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 17 | 1 | 16 |
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9 sourcesMaybe checkout the Kagi smallweb project
https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb
In What happened to blogging for the hell of it?>I wish kagi has something similar, one place where I can see all the links to the personal websites collected via all it's sources
They do. It's in the open repo
https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/main/smallweb.tx...
In Kagi Small WebSee also: Kagi Small Web https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37420281
List: https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/main/smallweb.tx...
In Blogscroll – an open-source directory of personal blogs and digital gardensYour reference [2] is to the YouTube channel list. I think you meant to link to
https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/main/smallweb.tx...
In Kagi Small WebIt looks like you're stripping MathML out of the RSS feed -- is that intentional, or are you using an older sanitizer that doesn't recognize it? For example, my RSS feed [1] for my most recent post [2] has:
<math display="block">
<msup><mi>e</mi>
<mrow><mi>k</mi><mi>t</mi></mrow></msup>
</math>
Which shows up in your RSS feed [3] as:
e
kt
[EDIT: filed an issue: https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/issues/10]
[1] https://www.jefftk.com/news.rss
[2] https://www.jefftk.com/p/weekly-incidence-vs-cumulative-infe...
[3] https://kagi.com/api/v1/smallweb/feed
In Kagi Small WebMost of the focus was on the website curation. The YT channels were curated from the initial list of sources [1] and then automatically filtered by recency and subscriber count criteria.
That is to say that very little other effort was made to curate the YT channels and we expect the user community will contribute to edit the list.
Also I was under impression that all YouTube channels had ads, so that is why this was not considered as a seperate criterion.
[1] https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb#youtube-channels
In Kagi Small WebVlad from Kagi here, thanks for posting. The RSS feed unexpectedly broke (edit: the feed is back up! [3]) just as we published the blog post, in the true spirt of "small web" :) Should be up in 30 minutes which will enable the site to function too (it uses the same feed).
This has been a personal pet project of mine and I spent considerable time getting my hands dirty with the code, as the team was busy with other initiatives. When I said the "feed broke" for the launch I meant I broke it. Software is messy especially for an old school dev. I learned in the process I am not a very good coder anymore (if I ever was one?), constantly going back and fixing stuff I previously thought was solid. Check it out in the linked repo [1].
Most importantly - I found the site replace the need for discovery for me, and getting to know various different
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humans and their writing felt good! A lot of unexpected stuff surfaced and the web felt close again. I think there is a glimpse of hope in the concept and I hope you see it too. And the improvements to search quality and diversity this brings are real.
You can check the list of included websites here [2]. And all the recent posts already surface in Kagi results (for relevant queries).
[1] https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb
[2] https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/main/smallyt.txt
[3] https://kagi.com/smallweb