Tom Hackshaw is a school teacher and designer from Hokkaido, Japan. Currently based in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa.

The directory of handmade websites.

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

Search and browse the internet without being tracked or targeted. Startpage is the world's most private search engine. Use Startpage to protect your personal data.

I list several alternative search engines to Google and Bing and discuss what one should look for in an alternative search engine.

My personal IndieWeb site. I write about and develop software to promote user autonomy. Topics include accessibility, security, privacy, and software freedom.

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Gnomit - Web Keyword search

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Find what you're searching for. Relevant, family safe search results at your fingertips.

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When you search with Yep, you’re putting actual dollars in the pockets of your favorite content creators.

Search the web with alexandria.org - the open source search engine

search.marginalia.nu is a small independent do-it-yourself search engine for surprising but content-rich websites that never ask you to accept cookies or subscribe to newsletters. The goal is to bring you the sort of grass fed, free range HTML your grandma used to write.

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Listed allows you to create an online publication with automatic email newsletters delivered to your readers, directly from Standard Notes. It's ideal for creating a public journal, or sharing domain-specific knowledge.

Join the vibrant community of artists, coders, and designers from around the world building apps for the open social web on Glitch.

The era of palatial theaters providing the primary source of entertainment in American cities is almost over, yet a few of the most spectacular theaters remain, shuttered and falling apart. | Abandoned America

Mwmbl is the first search engine to allow users to change the search results: You can add results, delete them, and rerank them. The changes you made are saved instantly to the index and will be shown to other users who run the same query. But what is the point of users changing search results? There are far too many queries to expect them all to be curated by users.

The Verdict Against Henry Kissinger

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