For being supposedly human curated, it's shocking how much garbage has infiltrated the smallweb.txt registry. I have an agent with browser access running right now checking it and it's close to ~10%... Here's a sample of 10 examples that were found in literally the last two minutes...
What’s the review process for all this? It looks to only be you based on git and your HN bio. Can you get some trusted community lieutenants who can police the lists and create a file with their names ? And then anyone can raise a PR to remove or add someone to that list of lieutenants and enough approvals from community can get the PR through. I’m not super familiar with GitHub settings but sure there is a way to setup some sort of democratic process for this.
Love the site btw, but I fear if you don’t get some help you’re going to trust all PRs and let them fly and trust people will issue removal PRs. For instance, my girlfriend loves the concept as well and was immediately hooked but she doesn’t know GitHub, so there’s no practical mechanism for her to remove bad content. And editing files on mobile GitHub is a pain, I probably wouldn’t even consider doing it, especially with a text file that big. So there’s going to need to be some sort of loyal community policing or voting system, because at end of day all these sites could be flipped to bad content as soon as they make it past review.
I wonder how something like ayahuasca or dmt would impact this. People have described these substances as having a type of mental “reset” quality. If they do impact time perception, I’m assuming it’s only temporary…
While I can't speak to these substances, regarding the temporariness of it:
Irrespective of whether or not the effect, or lasting effects, dwindle and can thus be considered "temporary", there's something too be said about the act of the reset itself.
That is, whether or not the effects feel like they're fading, the memory of what it was like when it was new is still a massive data point and can be recalled.
In short, you can still remember that feeling of the reset and recall a time when your brain felt new and refreshed.
The indie web was around before google and it will be around long after google is gone. I would argue that the indie web has incurred a much larger loss from people thinking seo/engagement metrics are something worth optimizing. Many of the best examples of the indie/small web don’t have js tracking and little to no css.
Has anyone tried out Tau [1]? It's similar to Coolify but supports multiple nodes which is appealing to me as I have spotty internet and distributing an app across several pi's in different locations sounds ideal.
If you’re interested in maps and the history of cartography, I highly recommend the book: The Mapmakers by John Noble Wilford. Longitude by Dava Sobel is a good follow up.
The book "Descent: The Heroic Discovery of the Abyss" by Bradford Matsen is all about Otis Barton, William Beebe, and the Bathysphere. The idea of locking yourself into a steel sphere and descending an order of magnitude deeper than any human had previously (and coming back alive) is wild. It's an excellent book that I found at a used book sale and it kinda sent me into a deep sea exploration rabbit hole. "Seven Miles Down: The Story of the Bathyscaph Trieste" by Jacques Piccard descending down to the bottom of the Challenger Deep is also a good one.
YSFlight sim used to be my jam! Back in high school (~2004), a few of my friends and I all had YSFlight sim loaded on some zip disks. Then throughout the week, our schedules would occasionally align so that we were all in separate classrooms but each had access to a computer and we could play the multiplayer combat mode over the schools network. YSFlight sim was also my first introduction to modding. I was able to take the F-22, give it unbelievable amounts of thrust (millions of lbf), zero mass, and virtually unlimited ammunition. It was great, I could fly across the entire map in a second, then loiter like a helicopter. I dominated for like a week until I gave the secret away...
- "vermontdailychronicle.com" : https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/5aa8a7740149bd67...
- "ziggit.dev" : https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/5aa8a7740149bd67...
- "fastfrwrd.info" : https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/5aa8a7740149bd67...
- "evchargingstations.com" : https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/5aa8a7740149bd67...
- "escapecollective.com" : https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/5aa8a7740149bd67...
- "findingada.com" : https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/5aa8a7740149bd67...
- "fontsinuse.com" : https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/5aa8a7740149bd67...
- "fortelabs.com" : https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/5aa8a7740149bd67...
- "forum.f-droid.org" : https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/5aa8a7740149bd67...
- "42zero.org" : https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/5aa8a7740149bd67...
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