#minimalcomputing — Public Fediverse posts

There is so much #MinimalComputing being discussed at the conference.

I think it is radical (and so helpful for scholars who want to refuse big data ideologies) to say "yes we could use a supercomputer for this, but we choose not to use them"

#MSUGlobalDH

There is so much #MinimalComputing being discussed at the conference.

I think it is radical (and so helpful for scholars who want to refuse big data ideologies) to say "yes we could use a supercomputer for this, but we choose not to use them"

#MSUGlobalDH

There is so much #MinimalComputing being discussed at the conference.

I think it is radical (and so helpful for scholars who want to refuse big data ideologies) to say "yes we could use a supercomputer for this, but we choose not to use them"

#MSUGlobalDH

There is so much #MinimalComputing being discussed at the conference.

I think it is radical (and so helpful for scholars who want to refuse big data ideologies) to say "yes we could use a supercomputer for this, but we choose not to use them"

#MSUGlobalDH

There is so much #MinimalComputing being discussed at the conference.

I think it is radical (and so helpful for scholars who want to refuse big data ideologies) to say "yes we could use a supercomputer for this, but we choose not to use them"

#MSUGlobalDH

Interesting call for chapters:

Minimal Computing for Social and Cultural Heritage

❝ At a time when digital heritage infrastructures are increasingly shaped by platform-dependent systems, this volume asks a fundamental question: what forms of digital practice are genuinely sustainable, not only technically and economically, but socially and culturally, for the communities who produce and maintain heritage? ❞

https://jamesosullivan.github.io/MinimalComputingCFP

#CfP #MinimalComputing #CulturalHeritage

It’s here! We just launched the new website of the #DiGA Collection, a collection of Buddhist sculptures from the Dir Museum in Chakdara, Pakistan. This site was built using an experimental static site framework for #CulturalHeritage collections that I developed over the last months. It’s a first beta version, and it will serve as a foundation for future explorations. Read more and explore the collection here: https://collection.diga.ceres.rub.de/ #BuddhistArt #DigitalHumanities #MinimalComputing

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

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

🕊️ 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

Ich hatte heute den großen Spaß eine Keynote mit dem Titel "Do it yourself (but not alone) and KISS!" beim 6. #DHDayRUB halten zu dürfen.

Meine Slides sind hier https://tillgrallert.github.io/slides/dh/2024-bochum/ und morgen ist noch ein ganzer Tag mit spannenden Workshops zu u.a. #Recogito und kontrolierten Vokabularen, an dem mensch auch spontan via Videolink teilnehmen kann.

https://dhday.rub.de/workshops.html

#DigitalHumanities #MinimalComputing #KISS #Making

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

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

Lately, I’ve been experimenting with creating a very basic system for publishing #CulturalHeritage #Collections based on the #StaticSiteGenerator #Pelican. Think #Wax or #CollectionBuilder, but way less polished. It’s not a product, it’s an exercise in #MinimalComputing and a proof-of-concept. Since it now has a home on GitHub and basic documentation, I thought I could also share it for people to tinker with. #DigitalHumanities
GitHub: https://github.com/frederik-elwert/pelican-collection-demo
Live demo: https://frederik-elwert.github.io/pelican-collection-demo/

at the #CrossingFonds symposium, Joey Takeda (SFU) just gave an interesting talk about long-term sustainability of the web-based results generated during #DigitalHumanities projects.

a key take-away is to make sure that all results are made accessible for any type of web server—and the key to make this practically happen is to make it "static from the start".

The Endings Project spells out some more useful principles and recommendations:

https://endings.uvic.ca

#MinimalComputing #StaticWeb

I attended a webinar on CinemaScience https://cinemascience.github.io/ , an app/environment for rendering large-scale 3D visualizations (i.e. ones too big to render on your workstation in real time). It's basically Wax for 3D: it pre-renders all the views (for different angles, values of parameters, etc.), so that a browser (or its python viewer) is powerful enough to render a view where you can rotate, push sliders to change your parameters, etc. Nifty! #MinimalComputing https://training.westdri.ca/tools/visualization/#cinema

“Wax is a minimal computing project for producing digital exhibitions focused on longevity, low costs, and flexibility.” https://minicomp.github.io/wax/ #reclaimopen #minimalcomputing via: @Readywriting

I had an idea (that I guess is not necessarily new): Build a #MinimalComputing collection website like #wax but using a #LinkedArt #JSONLD file as a data source instead of a CSV. Has anyone built something like this yet? Any recommendations for a usable #RDF #StaticSiteGenerator?

about time i made an #Introduction post! my theory & practice of lib* work is focused on civic engagement & #OpenAccess, supporting new models of #DigitalPublishing & #ScholComm in #DigitalHumanities & across the disciplines.

i believe in the principles of #MinimalComputing and engage them in my personal work, as well as the digital projects that make up the majority of my departmental portfolio. #Accessibility, when built-in rather than bolted-on, creates better projects & outcomes for all. 1/2

My talk was on "(Re)Considering Digital Preservation 10 Years after Bamboo", the Mellon-funded #DigitalHumanities cyberinfrastructure planning project where I got my start. There's a lot to be happy about: the emergence of disciplinary repositories for the humanities like @hcommons.social CORE, the move towards #MinimalComputing, the tendency to think about DH projects as data that can be archived, not just pretty websites. (Yeah that's @miriamkp as a data superhero.) #DHNB2023

I just did a system update. One line sprang into my eye: A wallpaper package pulling 70 Mb of data. My first linux system was carried home on around 45 1.44 MB floppies. Yes I'm that old. The distro was perfectly complete, #gcc, #X11, #perl, #vim, #LaTeX and #emacs. I was just as productive as today, maybe more. #minimalComputing #bloatware

How to do #minimalcomputing? With constraints of hardware, software, education, network capacity and power. #degrowth We would like to discuss this important topic at the @DHdKonferenz on 19 March during our workshop. #greeningdh #dhd2023 fight #ClimateCrisis 🔥🌱 @anne_baillot @CFeidicker @LisaRosendahl @toroe

They are also planning a resource to help w #minimalcomputing online — whether posting a resume, creating a site for a research study, or building a website for an academic press (like the excellent @[email protected]! @[email protected])

Seemed very #hypermedia / @[email protected] / #grug to me!

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#minimalcomputing by Andrew Lison https://edoc.hu-berlin.de/bitstream/handle/18452/26285/counter-n2022-lison.pdf #counter-n

new contributions on https://counter-n.net/ on counter-computing and counter-futuring!

dreamful computing by Ned Rossiter, Geert Lovink > https://edoc.hu-berlin.de/bitstream/handle/18452/26284/counter-n2022-rossiter-lovink.pdf

minimal computing by Andrew Lison > https://edoc.hu-berlin.de/bitstream/handle/18452/26285/counter-n2022-lison.pdf

permacomputing by Marloes de Valk, Ville-Matias Heikkilä > https://edoc.hu-berlin.de/bitstream/handle/18452/26287/counter-n2022-devalk-heikkilae.pdf

and queer futuring by Yener Bayramoğlu > https://edoc.hu-berlin.de/bitstream/handle/18452/26286/counter-n2022-bayramoglu.pdf

#dreamfulcomputing #permacomputing #minimalcomputing #queerfuturing

Thanks all for your contribution! #counter-n

Another (pretty solid) article by @whitep4nth3r on why you only need HTML to make websites.

https://whitep4nth3r.com/blog/html-is-all-you-need-to-make-a-website/

I'd also add CGI as a pretty good junky technology to make little dynamic sites, personal infrastructure, and prototypes. Just stick a Python or Perl file in a folder on shared hosting and you have a minimal web app.

#html #css #webdevelopment #js #minimalcomputing

They are also planning a resource to help w #minimalcomputing online — whether posting a resume, creating a site for a research study, or building a website for an academic press (like the excellent @[email protected]! @[email protected])

Seemed very #hypermedia / @[email protected] / #grug to me!

/3

They are also planning a resource to help w #minimalcomputing online — whether posting a resume, creating a site for a research study, or building a website for an academic press (like the excellent @[email protected]! @[email protected])

Seemed very #hypermedia / @[email protected] / #grug to me!

/3

They are also planning a resource to help w #minimalcomputing online — whether posting a resume, creating a site for a research study, or building a website for an academic press (like the excellent @[email protected]! @[email protected])

Seemed very #hypermedia / @[email protected] / #grug to me!

/3

They are also planning a resource to help w #minimalcomputing online — whether posting a resume, creating a site for a research study, or building a website for an academic press (like the excellent @[email protected]! @[email protected])

Seemed very #hypermedia / @[email protected] / #grug to me!

/3

Check out the #BillyBudd exhibit @grolierclub in NYC Sept 9-Nov 12. This digital critical edition was built using #EditionCrafter, a tool we created in collaboration with Columbia University's Making & Knowing Group. Edition Crafter joins #RecogitoStudio in the growing suite of DH tools we support. https://dh.tools/grolierclub #DigitalHumanities #MinimalComputing

Check out the #BillyBudd exhibit @grolierclub in NYC Sept 9-Nov 12. This digital critical edition was built using #EditionCrafter, a tool we created in collaboration with Columbia University's Making & Knowing Group. Edition Crafter joins #RecogitoStudio in the growing suite of DH tools we support. https://dh.tools/grolierclub #DigitalHumanities #MinimalComputing

🕊️ 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

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

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

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

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