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I hope this place won't hug it too hard, it's on 61% battery as of writing. Has translations in fr, de, nl, es, it, pt

The average page size of this website is below 0.5 MB – roughly a sixth of the average page size of the original website

SERVER: This website runs on an Olimex A20 computer. It has 2 Ghz of processing power, 1 GB of RAM, and 16 GB of storage. The server draws 1 - 2.5 watts of power.

SERVER SOFTWARE: The webserver runs Armbian Stretch, a Debian based operating system built around the SUNXI kernel. We wrote technical documentation for configuring the webserver. [comfy's note: worth checking out]

DESIGN SOFTWARE: ~~The website is built with Pelican, a static site generator.~~ [comfy note: Teppichbrand replied confirming they now use Hugo]

I also like the dithering aesthetic with the site images, both practical and stylistic.

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[–] Teppichbrand@feddit.org 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

They use Hugo since 2023.

I would love this to become a thing. Like a race to the bottom, how much information can you cramp into 2 watts and make it as stylish as possible. Take pride in a minimalist webpage.

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Good to hear. I was very very slightly disappointed when I read Pelican was a Python tool. I'm also a Hugo user.

Take pride in a minimalist webpage.

Last week I was thinking of making a meme pointing out how all the famously ultra-minimalist http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ and its many rebuttals are really put to shame by this one. Also, you've reminded me of some of those little webring banners people would put on their site bragging about being minimal, which are fun.

[–] Thorned_Rose@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago

This is very cool. I run a website for a charity and this had certainly made me reflect on how I could reduce its power consumption (even with it hosted on 100% renewable power servers)

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

Super cool! I love resource efficient projects in general.

[–] JTskulk@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've never heard of the SUNXI kernel before, turns out it's just Linux that focuses on support for ARM SoCs from Allwinner.

[–] piexil@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Yes it's full goal is to get mainlined, like the asahi project

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Cool stuff!

[–] janNatan@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I love that website. I'm considering getting the printed volumes to support them, even though I've read most of the articles already.

[–] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

"I might buy wasteful books I'll likely never read, to support a solar-powered website promoting minimalism and sustainability"

Just donate them whatever you can?