Welcome @prealpinux's blog https://notes.prealpinux.com to https://LMNO.lol

Custom domains welcome! #plaintext #privacy #smallweb #smolweb #spartanweb #obtf #markdown

Recently, I discovered the calming effect of putting my browser into full-screen mode when reading a blog post. No task bar tempting me to jump to another window. No tabs tempting me to switch to another page. Just me and the post.

New blog post up: a brief review of Hannah Steenbock's Demonhunters of Terragon series, as it stands so far.

https://michael.kjorling.se/blog/2025/book-series-review-demonhunters-of-terragon-by-hannah-steenbock/

Also some print styling improvements, while I was at it. (It's not quite where I want it yet, but it's better than it was before.)

@Firlefanz

"The internet I came to love was quieter. Smaller – which is not to say small. It was still vast, but it was a vast collection of small sites instead of a small collection of vast sites."

https://goodinternetmagazine.com/building-a-slow-web/

Building a slow web

https://goodinternetmagazine.com/building-a-slow-web/

The internet can feel like it's built for speed. You join a new service and you're presented with a feed. The name tells you all you need to know. The feed is the actor. You are the thing that is acted upon. You don't control the feed. Your role is

Ctrl-ZINE is an independent smol web project, and its Issue 17 Vol. 2 happens to contain pieces by two of my favorite people on the fediverse. @rootcompute has a great piece here about his time on and thoughts about the fediverse, and @ttntm wrote a love letter to one of my own favorite games here, Diablo II.

Free PDF to read/download: https://ctrl-c.club/~singletona082/zine/2024/Ctrl-ZINE.Issue.17.pdf

The most disgusting feature of this relatively new #AI #scraper |s plague is that they are about to defile everything we like in the *good* internet.

Images with relevant #AltText? Perfect training materials for text-to-image generative models.

Static webpages? No #Anubis - no problem to scrape.

#Anubis uses proof-of-work ( #PoW ), which implies either #JavaScript or manual instructions. No, it is a good solution... Best of the worst (as if there were any good ones...)

Last days I learned that (1) #Tor has a #PoW mechanism (2) Anubis seems to somehow whitelist #lynx browser, allowing no-JS Lynx users in (a big favour for #accessibility and #smolweb ). Good (let's hope all these will persist).

What #geminiprotocol clients do you recommend to browse the #smolweb from an Android smartphone?
Currently, I am using Buran, but I am missing things like tabs.

I've reviewed a bit the css of my blog to look more #brutalist

https://adele.pages.casa/md/blog/neo-brutalism-a-perfect-fit-for-smolweb-sites.md

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

https://cheapietheatre.neocities.org/engineheart

a backup of the final version of the book (free):
https://web.archive.org/web/20171203211028/http://viralgamespublishing.com/books/Engine+Heart+99E90F+2013+Edition.pdf

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

https://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

Is My Site Too Simple?

As I venture out into the indieweb, I often ask myself, "Is my site too simple?"

https://readbeanicecream.surge.sh/2025/05/15/is-my-site-too-simple/

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

https://remote.wilderland.ie/pages/permacomputing-technical-details.html

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!!

My Dumb Ascii Comic

Proof positive that I may not have enough to do today.

https://readbeanicecream.surge.sh/2025/05/13/my-dumb-ascii-comic/

Scifi Saturday!

Here is a list of my science fiction related posts and activities for the past week (or so)!

https://readbeanicecream.surge.sh/2025/05/10/scifi-saturday/

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

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: https://tomo-dashi.itch.io/kiki