Mike Grindle

@mikegrindle@indieweb.social
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A writer. Just doing my thing in a quiet corner of the internet.


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"We have trend pieces about platforms used for writing; posts that aggregate other posts; news stories about things people say and do online; novels, poems, and memoirs that would not exist without having germinated on the internet.

But the literary qualities of online writing remain mostly invisible. [...] until the moment it becomes a book."

The literary world holds online writing at arm’s length. Maybe it shouldn't. A somewhat old but great read:

https://longreads.com/2023/10/24/30-years-internet-online-writing/

#writing #blog

Poets in the Machine

2024 marks the blog's 30th anniversary. Is it time to give popular online writing—from blogs to tweets and newsletters—the critical attention it deserves?

Longreads

My main impression of people who use dark mode: the light modes on their websites are usually broken in some way.

Please test both, to anyone doing any sort of web design.

So, I went ahead and turned the Eee PC into a writer deck with a little help from #debian And I'm pretty happy with the results:

https://mikegrindle.com/posts/writer-deck

#linux #retrocomputing #writing

Turning My Old Netbook Into a Writing Deck

Since people seemed interested, here's a little blog post for a little computer:

https://mikegrindle.com/posts/eee

#retrocomputing #linux #netbook

Eee! PC

Say what you will about 90s #fantasy #books, but the cover art sure did go hard:
Linkdump No 58 - 82MHz

New little addition to the household...

It's an Eee PC and it's kind of adorable:

#retrocomputing #netbook #linux

Felt cute, re-uploaded a bunch of old stuff:

https://mikegrindle.com

#smallweb #neocities

Mike Grindle's Webpage

Linkdump No 55 - 82MHz

Yo man, you holdin? I just want the latest music lyrics, what you got
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@mikegrindle @srgower @82mhz @jake4480 Now that you're all talking about it, I also had to drag this cute little thing back from the cellar. 😅
I've been meaning to set this up as my blogging machine for a while. It's got a full GB of RAM and an 250 GB HDD (5400 rpm spinning disk, baby 😎).
@irgndsondepp @mikegrindle @srgower @jake4480
Great weekend project! Hope it works well with Debian despite the slow HDD and the limited RAM :)
@82mhz it works surprisingly good, especially without a Desktop Environment. I thought it would take longer to boot with the slow disk, but it's actually very reasonable. Around a minute, give or take.
Going without a DE is also a nice experiment for me. I'm pretty comfortable in the terminal and for what it's worth my WSL daily driver is also headless. But this is the first machine where I don't have quick access to a browser to look something up. I'll try getting one of these minimalistic terminal browsers set up next.
Oh and another surprise: this thing actually had built-in WiFi... and it's stupidly slow. 😬 But I can just attach my phone via USB and share the WiFi from that.
@82mhz well... and just like that it doesn't want to boot anymore. 😅
@82mhz fixed it from recovery. 😅 I guess I put it into sleep mode by accident.
@irgndsondepp @srgower @82mhz @jake4480 a full GB of RAM? What a beast! 😂 In all seriousness, I’d be interested to know how you get on
@mikegrindle @srgower @82mhz @jake4480 performance-wise it's surprisingly okay. I've even installed LXDE in the meantime and experimented with Lynx as a terminal browser and Dillo as a GUI browser.
The only thing that's thrown me off is that there only seems to be a years old version of Hugo that can no longer compile my blog. I'll need to check if there are still newer versions around for 32-bit systems. 🤔
I don't want to compile it myself. If push comes to shove, I'll just use my homelab as a poor mans CI and glue something together from Bash and rsync to make that somewhat comfortable.
So far I've spent a lot of time getting things set up, rather than writing, but hopefully that'll change in the next few days.

@irgndsondepp
Ah, if you have a 32 bit only CPU that's probably a limiting factor in more than one way. I have an Eee PC that is slighty newer and that has a 64 bit capable Atom.

I still run it with an old version of Ubuntu because it just feels more "authentic" this way, and then I ssh into my homeserver if I want to do stuff the old netbook can't do.

And you know, I always feel like setting everything up is the most fun bit of the experience ;)

@mikegrindle @srgower @jake4480

@82mhz
Interesting. I... didn't even think that the processor might be 64-Bit capable. Now that you mention it... there was a 64-Bit Debian on the HDD before and it booted fine. I'll need to check if I can just go to 64-Bits too. My processor is also an Intel Atom... 🤔

@mikegrindle @srgower @jake4480