Mastodawn

Hey Fedi-hivemind: I'm looking at reducing my work computing footprint for 2026 as I replace some machines. It occurs to me that, as I start doing less and less digital humanities work, my demands on a daily driver are *very* light: Emacs, Sublime Text, Thunderbird, Firefox, a few sundry cursed Electron apps. I feel like I could probably get away with using an RPi5 8G/16G for all that. What alternative single-board PCs should I be considering? #minimalcomputing #rpi

Danny Garside Oct 21

Is there a #lowtech #mastodon / #fediverse client, or server (fork)?

Thinking something which minimises bandwidth/power/storage consumption, like the work which has been done on @lowtechmagazine (https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about/the-solar-website/#how)

#energyEfficiency #minimalComputing #LowTech

researchreisen Sep 8, 2025

#permacomputing and #minimalcomputing share similarities! Time to get to know each other? #digitalhumanities #dh

researchreisen Aug 30, 2025

Today, I was extremely tired, nothing weird as the work week was quite tough. Nevertheless, I had some space to read about #plan9 it simply is an interesting OS. I am now playing around with #troff a bit. I really see potential to explore Plan 9 under a #minimalcomputing perspective #dh #blog

researchreisen Aug 19, 2025

Scrolling casually through the HTML4 specification at the moment, we sometimes do forget how much we actually are able to create with pure compliant HTML4. #html #web #www #minimalcomputing

ASHIQUR RAHMAN Aug 5, 2025

🕊️ Choosing privacy over convenience isn’t radical — it’s necessary.

I’ve distanced myself from centralized systems that normalize surveillance. My files, thoughts, and memories deserve better than silent extraction.

I don't need AI to read my docs.
I need silence, sovereignty, and control.

Minimal tools. Local storage. End-to-end encryption.
That's peace of mind.

#PrivacyMatters #DigitalSovereignty #DeCloud #SelfHosted #EncryptionFirst #Decentralize #MinimalComputing #Fediverse

Frederik Elwert Jun 4, 2025

You want to use a #StaticSiteGenerator and need to support #multilingual sites? It’s now easier than ever! For quite a while, #Pelican had a great plugin for that use case. Now I helped migrate it to the new plugin format, which means that it can easily be installed from #PyPI. https://github.com/pelican-plugins/i18n-subsites #MultilingualDH #MinimalComputing

GitHub - pelican-plugins/i18n-subsites: Pelican plugin that creates internationalized sub-sites for the default site

Pelican plugin that creates internationalized sub-sites for the default site - pelican-plugins/i18n-subsites

GitHub

Stefan Stoilov May 25, 2025

I keep my to-do list in ~/notes/todo.txt.
I write articles in nvi.
I deploy static sites with rsync.

#plaintext #minimalcomputing #cli #selfhosting

Ariel Kroon Feb 17, 2025

Hey, anyone looking for a #website, either #personal or to house an #academic project? @RyanChartier builds and maintains #MinimalComputing sites that run on #Jekyll - they are #secure, #EnergyEfficient, and don't rely on #plugins owned by other corporations. Check out his site at https://blog.ryan-chartier.net/ - he built my website and then handed me the reins and I'm very happy to have full control over my official page.

@academicchatter #DH #DigiHum #DigitalHumanities @digitalhumanities

Ryan Chartier

A blog about Games and the Philosophy of Computing.

Ryan Chartier

Ariel Kroon Sep 30, 2024

Stayed up way too late last night working on editing up a Jekyll version of my website. Made longer because I'm still learning, so I was periodically calling @RyanChartier in to help me out, since he's the mastermind behind this XD

Coding is addictive, y'all.

#html #jekyll #DH #DigitalHumanities #website #WebsiteContent #WebsiteCreation #MinimalComputing