Links

Website useful for learning or keeping up with web development.

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  32-Bit Cafe

  A web space community that I help moderate. The 32-bit Cafe focuses on building websites for self-expression and creativity, made up of professionals, hobbyists, and enthusiasts of the personal web. Our goal is to help non web developers create their own websites.

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  MDN Web Docs

  A complete set of articles aims to guide complete beginners to web development with all that they need to start coding websites.

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  Smashing Magazine

  Magazine on CSS, JavaScript, front-end, accessibility, UX and design. For developers, designers and front-end engineers.

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  CodePen

  An online code editor, learning environment, and community for front-end web development using HTML, CSS and JavaScript code snippets, projects, and web applications.

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  Every Layout

  Through a series of simple, composable layouts, Every Layout will teach you how to better harness the built-in algorithms that power browsers and CSS.

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  Utopia

  Fluid responsive design for your websites.

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  11ty

  Eleventy, a simpler static site generator.

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  11tybundle

  Weekly posts full of 11ty resources from across the web.

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  11ty Rocks!

  A collection of Eleventy (11ty) starters, projects, plugins, and resources by Stephanie Eckles.

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  SmolCSS

  Minimal snippets for modern CSS layouts and components by Stephanie Eckles.

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  Modern CSS

  A series examining modern CSS solutions to problems by Stephanie Eckles.

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  HTML Recipes

  A collection of quick copy HTML snippets for a variety of common scenarios by Stephanie Eckles.

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  Kevin Powell

  Helping you learn how to make the web, and make it look good while you're at it.

Newsletters I read, you might find interesting too.

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  The History Of the Web

  The best stories from the web's history.

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  Webworm with David Farrier

  David Farrier's stories from the weird side of the Internet.

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  Boiler Room

  Music journalism like the mags used to do, from Chris Schulz.

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  The Bulletin

  Aotearoa Specific. The Spinoff's daily wrap of the New Zealand news that matters, delivered to your inbox each morning.

Podcasts that I listen to and recommend.

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  Mediawatch

  Aotearoa Specific. A detailed look at how the media covers the news, and at the media itself. Good for keeping an eye on the local press.

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  Ruminate

  A podcast about the web, games, and terrible food.

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  Wonders of Web Weaving

  Conversations with people who love to make websites, from James of James' Coffee Blog.

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  ShopTalk

  A weekly podcast about building websites from Dave Rupert and Chris Coyier.

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  Hemispheric Views

  Hemispheric Views is a podcast about technology, media, food, cultural differences and family life.

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  Darknet Diaries

  Stories from the dark side of the Internet. A podcast about hackers, breaches, shadow government activity, hacktivism, cybercrime, and all the things that dwell on the hidden parts of the network. This is Darknet Diaries.

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  Hard House History

  Paul Glazby digs into the history of the hard house scene, the music, the clubs, and the nights that defined an era.

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  Three Gals One Beehive

  Aotearoa Specific. Georgina Stylianou, Brigitte Morten and Esther Robinson buzz through the spin, the jargon and the pointy-heads of New Zealand politics so you don't have to.

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  Gone By Lunchtime

  Aotearoa Specific. New Zealand politics with The Spinoff's Toby Manhire, Annabelle Lee-Mather and Ben Thomas.

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  Rebel FM

  My gaming fix. They play games and talk about them, their lives, and how the two intersect. Usually. And there are jokes..

Web directories that surface personal sites across the small web. A good place to go wandering and find something new.

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  ooh.directory

  A collection of blogs about every topic.

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  Ye Olde Blogroll

  A humanly curated list of fine personal & independent blogs that are updated regularly. No algorithms ever!

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  indieblog.page

  Randomly explore the IndieWeb

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  personalsit.es

  A site to share and revel in personal websites.

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  i.webthings directory

  A hand curated directory of websites to explore with a focus on the independent and noncommercial web.

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  Indieseek.xyz Indie Web Directory

  A human edited, Indieweb directory.

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  Kagi Small Web

  A Stumble Upon like web surfing experience.

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  Bukmark.Club

  A brand new independent web directory.

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  The Forest

  The Forest, by Manu and Carl aims to bring back some unpredictability to surfing the web.

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  A Blog Directory

  A home for everyone's Blog and Post rolls.

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  MelonLand Surf Club

  The surf club is a webring that is designed to promote and help people find the homepages of MelonLand Forum members! .

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  The Big List of Personal Websites

  Terraaeon is maintaing a big list of personal websites. Submission form at the bottom.

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  smallweb

  smallweb is a carefully curated collection of neat indie websites that get less attention than they deserve.

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  minifeed

  Minifeed is a curated blog reader and search engine. A collection of humans-written blogs to make them discoverable and searchable.

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  The Index

  A directory of directories. Catalogues blog directories, RSS aggregators, search engines, random discovery tools and constraint based clubs, all in one place.

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  Hotline Webring

  A modern take on the 90s webring, and about the easiest one going to join. Pick a slug, add next and previous links to your site, and you're in.

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  An IndieWeb Webring

  A webring for sites using IndieWeb building blocks. Sign in with your own domain and start hopping between neighbours, or hit the random link and see where you land.

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  Blogscroll

  A directory of personal blogs and sites, with curated lists to browse through.

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  Blogosphere

  Brings together more than 1,000 independent and personal blogs in one place so you can find something new to read.

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  blogs.hn

  A tiny tech blog directory. Small, focused, and easy to browse.

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  Mataroa Collection

  A curated list of personal blogs hosted on Mataroa. Hit the random blog button and see where you land.

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  Blogs Are Back

  A hand curated directory of independent blogs covering tech, design, personal essays and creativity.

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  Blog of the Day

  One blog per day from the IndieWeb, the slow web and the independent web.

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  Read Something Interesting

  Celebrating great writing on the web. Good for when you want something worth reading.

A collection of bookmark and link blogs. Follow a few and you'll always have good links to read from across the web.

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  fLaMEd's Bookmarks

  Yup, my own bookmarks page. Focuses on interesting posts from across the small and open web.

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  Linkage

  An old fashioned link blog by Lou Plummer. Updated daily.

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  Link Punk

  A link blog by Brad Enslen, shares articles and posts they find interesting.

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  i.webthings.hub

  A long running link blog by Joe Jenett

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  Chris Burnell's Bookmarks

  Chris's collection of bookmarks from across the web.

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  Cory's Links

  Cory is collecting and sharing links that he finds interesting focusing on tech and development.

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  Robb's Links

  Robb is collecting and sharing links from across the web focusing on the internet, tech and development.

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  JCProbably's Postroll

  Jedda is curating a rolling list of posts, blogs, and links that she's been enjoying. Small web and blogging focused.

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  Distinctive Quality Links

  Ovi is collecting links on designing, coding, and writing for the web and email.

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  Juha-Matti's Weeklies

  Juha shares interesting links to articles, talks etc that they come across weekly.

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  Lou Plummer's Cool Links

  Lou is collecting and sharing cool links from across the web.

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  Bounty of bookmarks

  Rather than hoarding and keeping bookmarks to themselves, Felix is sharing with the bounty of bookmarks. Thousands of bookmarks divided into categories for browsing.

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  Hidde's Links

  Hidde is collecting posts about the web and tech.

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  The internet used to be fun

  A collection of posts across the web about, well the web!

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  Tangible Life Linkposts

  Steve is collecting and sharing links from across the web as a link log as a subset of his blog.

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  Scrolls

  A weekly roundup of links from the intersection of the IndieWeb, the Fediverse and cybersecurity. Free, and published on a relaxed weekly schedule.

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  Scour

  Surfaces interesting reads from noisy feeds you can't keep up with, and smaller sites you didn't know to check.

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  powRSS

  An RSS driven tool for discovering the indie web.

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  RSS.Social

  The latest and best from small sites across the web, pulled together from feeds.

Contrary to popular belief, search exists outside of adtech, check out some of these search engines and avoid the blog spam.

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  Kagi

  Kagi is a paid search product. It is also a fast, private search engine that provides results that have your best interests in mind. I'm paying for it and using it as my default search.

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  Marginalia Search

  An independent search engine that favours text-heavy websites. Focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed.

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  searchmysite

  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.

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  Wiby

  Wiby is a search engine for older style pages, lightweight and based on a subject of interest. Building a web more reminiscent of the early internet.

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  Gibiru

  Uncensored private search engine. They exist to provide access to information outside of big tech's censorship bubble and do so privately.

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  Infotiger

  Independent, privacy respecting search engine. Building their own index, sitting at around 300 million english websites indexed.

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  Yep

  New search engine built from scratch. Claims to offer an unbiased, private search experience that rewards and compensates the makers behind the content...

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  Stract

  Independent and open search. You can apply different optics to narrow down the types of page you're looking for.

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  Mwmbl

  Mwmbl is a free search engine with a focus on freedom, user experience, and community. Results are provided by their own index and a touch of curation.

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  Plumb

  Plumb is a new search engine that claims it doesn't monitor or track you while you search. Supported by ads, but is not an ad platform that supports search.

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  Clew

  A super new search engine that is trying to be different than the rest. Starting off with a super small index with plans to grow.

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  Mojeek

  Mojeek is a growing independent search engine which does not track you. Mojeek have their own crawler and are building their own index.

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  Raw Web

  Explore the gems of independent websites. A search engine built from independent website feeds.

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  Blog Search

  Search scoped to blogs only, so you skip the SEO sludge.

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  feedle

  A search engine for blogs and podcasts where every search you run comes back as an RSS feed.

Websites that I use to help with my self hosted media server.

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  The Movie Database (TMDB)

  The Movie Database (TMDB) is a community built movie and television database. This website has superseded the usefulness of the IMDB for me. allows users to sign up, contribute data and track what they've watched.

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  The TV Database (TVDB)

  Another community driven television and movie database. Great alternative for the movie database. Full of great user curated lists of various movies and television shows.

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  The Internet Music Video Database (IMVDb)

  The Internet Music Video Database is another community driven database but for music videos. They track credits, technical information, and other data about music videos.

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  Internet Game Database (IGDB)

  Discover, Rate and track your games. The Internet Game Database is another community contributed Database for video games.