I’d rather see a shitty Microsoft Paint drawing as opposed to some AI image.

I know there are plenty of things you can roast my blog for but at least you know for a fact you’re getting the thoughts of a real human being and not some LLM.

If you run a personal blog, please avoid AI-generated images.

Discussion over at Hacker News

Hacker News

https://news.ycombinator.com/

By far the best way I’ve discovered new blogs is through Hacker News. I occasionally discover new blogs when a post/article from that blog is submitted to Hacker News. There are also HN posts where people share blogs:

• Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?
• Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?
• Ask HN: Share your personal website

There are more posts like these that can be found with a quick Google search.

Kagi Small Web

https://kagi.com/smallweb/

Kagi Small Web is an effort to highlight smaller sites and blogs around the web. You can learn more in Kagi’s announcement post.

A list of all sites indexed by Kagi Small Web is on GitHub: https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/main/smallweb.txt

indieblog.page

https://indieblog.page/

indieblog.page lets you click a button and get a random blog post.

They also have a list of all blogs and several RSS feeds to make discoverability easier.

theforest.link

https://theforest.link/

Very similar to indieblog.page but more minimal. Click a button and get redirected to a random site.

blogs.hn

https://blogs.hn/

This is a collection of blogs that mainly come from Hacker News. It was created by Taylor Troesh.

Neocities

https://neocities.org/

Neocities is a place where users can create a static site for free. Most sites here are reminiscent of the 90s web. I like to browse by the latest updated sites but there are other filters too.

ooh.directory

https://ooh.directory/

ooh.directory is a collection of blogs on all sorts of topics. They have a Random Blogs area that works similarly to indieblog.page and theforest.link.

personalsit.es

https://personalsit.es/

Another collection of blogs – with previews!

250kb.club, 512kb.club, 1mb.club

https://250kb.club/

https://512kb.club

https://1mb.club

These sites all have the same idea in that they are collections of sites that are under a certain size (at least for the home page). There are lots of blogs to discover among all three lists.

darktheme.club

https://darktheme.club/

A list of sites that have dark mode functionality. These are generally indie blogs.

bukmark.club

https://bukmark.club/directory/

bukmark.club is a list of sites that have curated links to other sites. You can easily go down a rabbit hole.

minifeed.net

https://minifeed.net/welcome

A curated list of human-written blogs. When viewing a post or article from a blog here, minifeed will also show related blog posts from different sites which is great for discovering new blogs.

The Big List of Personal Websites

http://biglist.terraaeon.com/

Another curated list of personal websites.

blogroll.club

Another collection of blogs on various topics.

https://blogroll.club/

rawweb.org

Blogs, portfolios, and personal sites.

https://rawweb.org/

Blogosphere

Another blog aggregator.

https://text.blogosphere.app/

bubbles.town

A community-ranked feed of blog posts from indie blogs

https://bubbles.town/

• https://crankysec.com/

• https://ludic.mataroa.blog/

• https://jvns.ca/

• https://www.writesoftwarewell.com/

• https://xeiaso.net/

• https://www.wheresyoured.at/