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A little shell function I have in my ~/.zshrc: pages() { for _ in {1..5}; do curl -sSw '%header{location}\n' https://indieblog.page/random | sed 's/.utm.*//'
by susam 7mo ago
A little shell function I have in my ~/.zshrc:
pages() { for _ in {1..5}; do curl -sSw '%header{location}\n' https://indieblog.page/random | sed 's/.utm.*//'; done }
Here is an example output:
$ pages
https://alanpearce.eu/post/scriptura/
https://jmablog.com/post/numberones/
https://www.closingtags.com/blog/home-networking
https://www.unsungnovelty.org/gallery/layers/
https://thoughts.uncountable.uk/now/
On macOS, we can also automatically open the random pages in the default web browser with:
$ open $(pages)
Another nice place to discover independently maintained personal websites is: https://kagi.com/smallweb https://kagi.com/smallweb
- viscousviolin 7mo agoThat's a lovely bit of automation.
- deadbabe 7mo agoWhat do you mean automation, he’s not even using any AI agent!
- oooyay 7mo agoCaveat that Kagi gates that repo such that it doesn't allow self-submissions so you're only going to see a chunk of websites that other people have submitted that also know about the Kagi repo.
- mxuribe 7mo agoBut per the instructions, it seems like that if one wants to add your own website, then one needs to add 2 other small websites (that are not on the list already)...so technically it does open things up to those who are not aware of the repo...assuming their site is pulled in when someone wants to add their own website. Obviously this scale is slow...but i think that's kinda the point, eh? Nevertheless, for every 1 person wanting to add their stuff, 2 others would technically get added i guess. See: https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb?tab=readme-ov-file#%EF%B8%8F-guidelines-for-adding-a-site-or-channel-to-the-list-%EF%B8%8F https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb?tab=readme-ov-file#%E...
- skrtskrt 7mo agoYeah I’ve added my own site along with 3 others and the PR was merged in an hour. Honestly the hard part was that a lot of the sites I wanted to submit were already there!
- ramblin_ray 7mo agoThanks for the info! If anyone wants to join up and add our sites together, here's mine: https://yesteryearforever.xyz/ https://yesteryearforever.xyz/
- deleted 7mo ago[deleted]
- sdoering 7mo agoThis is so lovely. Just adopted it for arch. And set it up, so that I can just type `indy n` (with "n" being any number) and it opens n pages in my browser. Thanks for sharing.
- robgibbons 7mo ago`indy 500`
- drob518 7mo agoAnd I thought I keep a lot of tabs open...
- ddtaylor 7mo agoAnyone curious this is the same for Linux, except use xdg-open like this: $ xdg-open $(pages)
- unsungNovelty 7mo agoHey!!!!! That is my website! To be fair, the hard part is hard to keep a personal website regularly updated without making people think it's abandoned. I don't have a regular post cadence. So it looks like I don't touch the website at all for months. But I regularly update my posts and other sections event if there isn't any new posts. I also wrote something similar to OP - https://www.unsungnovelty.org/posts/10/2024/life-of-a-blog-blogging-in-2024-and-beyond/ https://www.unsungnovelty.org/posts/10/2024/life-of-a-blog-b... And I'd like to also mention https://marginalia-search.com/ https://marginalia-search.com/ which is a small OSS search engine I have been using more and more theese days. I find it great to find IndieWeb / Small Web content.
- mikestorrent 7mo agoNow this is what makes me feel the Small Web... creators randomly showing up like this on HN. I feel like I used to see this kind of thing more.
- Noumenon72 7mo agoThey barely mentioned your website (fourth in five urls, mainly talking about indieblog.com and kagi.com/smallweb), so "That is my website!" is confusing and makes it seem like you're autoresponding to a keyword.
- unsungNovelty 7mo agoWhy should I auto-respond to a keyword? Just curious seeing it here buddy. Breathe easy.
- speefers 7mo ago[flagged]
- jibal 7mo agoYeah, it didn't confuse sensible people who are capable of putting themselves in someone else's shoes. I did a Small Web search at Marginalia and was immediately pointed to sites that claim that I and everyone in my political party are literally the spawn of Satan--I really don't think it's my thing. I helped develop the ARPANET back in 1969-1970 while working for the UCLA Comp Sci dept, got a brief mention in RFC 57, hold several network patents, and was on usenet before the usenix conference where we voted to call it that ... I'm bemused by all the people who claim that boomers are technologically inept (I think they have us mixed up with our parents). Anyway it's been a heck of a wild ride and didn't end up quite how JCR Licklider envisioned it.
- postalcoder 7mo agoMultiple layers of curation works really well. Specifically, using HN as a curation layer for kagi's small web list. I implemented this on https://hcker.news https://hcker.news. People who have small web blogs should post them on HN, a lot of people follow that list!
- matheusmoreira 7mo agoThese curated discovery services require RSS and Atom feeds. My site doesn't even have those. Looks like I'm too small for the small web.
- gzread 7mo agoSame here, but I'm considering adding it. I already have HTML, so it can't be that hard to add another format. More onerous is needing to write a blog post at least once a week. And woe betide thee whose website isn't a blog.
- thesuitonym 7mo agoThat's big web thinking. A small website doesn't need to be discoverable. It's supposed to be for you, and if someone else stumbles upon it, and finds it useful or entertaining, that's a bonus.
- encom 7mo agoI get the sentiment, but it has to discoverable to some extent, otherwise there's no real point in publishing it on a webserver.
- matheusmoreira 7mo agoI suppose just having the website online is enough to make it discoverable by search engines. I have no idea how but people independently discovered my work and submitted it here on HN, reddit and lobsters. For a long time I avoided submitting it myself because I hate advertising with a passion and I absolutely did not want to advertise. Really made my day when I came here and saw my domain on the front page.
- dwedge 7mo agoThat top one only updates once a year. Not saying that as a criticism, just how lucky he was to update recently enough to end up in this top comment
- nvardakas 7mo ago[dead]