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#smolweb

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vga256

so this is exactly what smallweb initiatives do a great job of:

over 15 years ago, a tiny robot tabletop rpg was designed by a group of 1d4chan users over a few years. it eventually grew into a formal rulebook, and even spawned a successful kickstarter to get a print of the rulebook printed.

the game is adorable and simple, and aside from a PDF of the final rulebook - the game went out of print years ago and all but disappeared from the web when 1d4chan shut down.

mercifully, a neocities user thought to preserve the original website thank you, singletona082 🙏

cheapietheatre.neocities.org/e

a backup of the final version of the book (free):
web.archive.org/web/2017120321

A tiny handmade sculpture of a robot on the cover of a book: Engine Heart.
#smolweb#indieWeb#rpg
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Timothée Goguely

📒 The Internet Phone Book is here!
I can’t wait to receive my copy.

internetphonebook.net

- Limited Edition of 500
- 24x19 cm in paperback
- 176 pages
- Samua 100gsm (inside); Colorplan factory yellow, 270gsm (outside)
- Typefaces: Times New Roman, Courier
- Made with HTML Energy and Paged.js
- Designed by Elliott Cost
- Printed in Athens, Greece at Pletsas

Photographs by Ana Šantl

The Internet Phone Book with its yellow cover, held by hands above a café table on a sunny day.
Double-page spread inside the book, Ecology section.
#InternetPhoneBook#PoeticWeb#SmallWeb
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Colm O'Neill

Building a #smolweb resource list for an upcoming workshop with #permacomputing connections, and for this page:

remote.wilderland.ie/pages/per

amazing stuff from:
@sarahgarcin @julienbidoret @joeri_s @adele @lowtechmagazine

Thank you for these beauties!

I seem to remember a resource from @domingoclub but I can't find it anymore, or maybe I dreamt it? Did you run smolweb stuff in BCN?

Am I missing anything else? Thank you thank you thank you thank you!!

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Toad64

Wow, so after months of failed attempts, I've finally, FINALLY, moved by blog off of WordPress and having it as a simple static site hosted on Netlify! The address is www.paintedpixels.xyz. I'm still setting things up and moving things around, lots of pics from older posts are broken, and the custom domain is only on the homepage right now, gotta figure out how to make it the address for every page, but hey, it's now it's own thing! Now to make a page full of my favorite links to other pages, and a page of Neocities-like badges!
#blog #smolweb #wordpress

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R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵

I just discovered [rdrview], a command-line "reader view" for websites, and I absolutely love it. Absolutely going to be a part of my terminal-life arsenal from now on. It cuts through a lot of the visual cruft you're subjected to when viewing websites on the terminal.

Kudos to @bbbhltz for turning me on to it via his excellent [post on Dillo].

#Dillo #DilloBrowser #SmolWeb

cc: @amin

Firefox Reader View as a command line tool. Contribute to eafer/rdrview development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHubGitHub - eafer/rdrview: Firefox Reader View as a command line toolFirefox Reader View as a command line tool. Contribute to eafer/rdrview development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Cora, Combinatrix

So I wrote a stupid little thing the other day to finger a random profile on @benbrown 's happynetbox.com whenever I start a new shell. Now, every time I need to get some dirt under my nails, I'm first greeted by random silliness, by which I mean mostly large ascii images of cats, and this suits me just fine.

smolfingerweb people are the best.

#smolweb
#fingerweb
#selfcare

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vga256

back when i first joined mastodon, one of the many surprising things i learned was that gopher had made a return to the public sphere after decades of obscurity.

i grew up with gopher and archie and veronica and many other www-alt protocols before getting hooked on the world wide web. they taught me how to hunt for things, in a time when web search didn't exist yet.

i've spent every day of the past week adding a new feature to kiki that i'm incredibly proud of, after hearing from several folks - namely @tomjennings and @scott, who (like me) are hungry for an information-dense and cruft-free internet

this works by turning your kiki pages into gopherspace pages through some formatting magic and textmunging. so now, you can host your kiki instance on both the www and in gopherspace, simultaneously.

it will be released in an upcoming version of kiki, available soon here: tomo-dashi.itch.io/kiki

A screenshot of two windows: (top) A web browser showing the default kiki install homepage which is formatted in HTML. All links are inline. (bottom) A gopherspace browser showing the default kiki install homepage, formatted in gopherspace format. It has a few lines of text, a horizontal line, and then 3 lines of footnoted links. Both read "You did it! kiki is up and running. This home page, is the default index page for any new installation. You can either edit this page to be your new landing page, or create a new page and set that one to be the default. If this is your first time using kiki, you'll probably want to read the help index page or go straight to the Getting Started Guide."
#kiki#worldWideWeb#GopherProtocol
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vga256

new #kiki update a'for the weekend because i know it's such a great idea to release patches on a friday afternoon 😎

this adds a really nice feature: now you can add any custom dynamic variables you want to /layout/dynamic.bug, and pages can use them!

this idea is courtesy of @minterpunct who is the first kiki webmaster use dynamic content *really* creatively in their pages - storing chunks of html code that can be re-used all over the place - stuff like emojis and javascript code! i honestly never imagined using it this way, and it's a super smart way of re-using code without having to retype it anywhere

👏

tomo-dashi.itch.io/kiki/devlog

itch.iov1.0.10 Patch Notes - kiki: a tiny homepage construction set by tomo-dashiv1.0.10 Patch Notes Happy weekend everyone! Because it's always a good idea to release a patch on a friday afternoon according IT Professionals (TM) around the world, here are a few improvements to ki...
#smolWeb#indieweb#smallWeb
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vga256

back in the early 90s my parents brought home an ibm ps/1 with an internal 2400 baud modem. i assumed it was only for sending/receiving faxes.

one day my computer teacher (thank you mr. mckinney!) explained that the modem made my computer capable of dialing out to *other computers* and exchanging data with them. he printed off a five page ream of tractor feed paper titled "The 403 BBS List" and sent me home with it.

i stayed up until 3am that night, dialing every single board on that list using Windows Terminal, creating accounts, and exploring what BBSes were capable of. by the wee hours, i had a new terminal program (Terminate!), knew how to use the z-modem protocol, and had
pirated my first game 😅

one of the little mysteries i came across that night was FILE_ID.DIZ files. every board had them. every zip file had them. they were tiny capsule descriptions of what a program/game was, constrained to 45 cols and 10 rows of ascii. they usually also included some kind of nod to the piracy group that "released" the program.

most BBS software would extract the .DIZ file from the zip, and use that as a file area description for the program, allowing users to understand what they were downloading.

to celebrate this weird little historical curio, today kiki got a FILE_ID.DIZ packed into the zip 😆

in version 1.10 onwards every copy of kiki will now include a FILE_ID.DIZ.

if you haven't heard of kiki yet, check out the project page:
tomo-dashi.itch.io/kiki

and if you're new to the kiki community, please post to the #kiki hashtag so we can start building a little webring of kiki instances

a small ascii graphic of a black cat is drawn beside an ascii decorated text box. It reads: kiki - a tiny homepage creation kit disk 1/1 The homepage builder with a tiny footprint. Build a site with markup pages. Magic menus, wiki, RSS, themes, full source code. No JS or BS. Runs on php: php 4.x+. No JS or BS. Association of Shareware Pirates.
#bbs#smolweb#smallweb
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Michael Harley

You know what would be cool? An #eleventy video plugin that works like the image plugin. Except, the video plugin does these steps: mux.com/articles/how-to-conver

The use case is I'm interested in #indieweb, #smolweb, #smallweb and I'd just rather host my random little videos myself instead of putting them on Youtube.

www.mux.comHow to convert MP4 to HLS format with ffmpeg: A step-by-step guide | MuxLearn how to convert MP4 video files to HLS with ffmpeg for adaptive bitrate streaming
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