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2026-05-04 01:34 UTC

There&#39;s a lot of neat stuff going on here, but in particular, I kind of love what they&#39;re doing with their images?! https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/09/how-to-build-a-low-tech-website/

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@JSteven@wandering.shop 2026-05-04 03:53

@joshsutphin Fascinating project. Thanks for sharing. Based on my old 80s BBS days, where some of the BBS's in Seattle were running light weight but fairly sophisticated discussion platforms running on IBM PC/XT machines, and even 8-bit platforms through dial-up, I keep thinking about the discussion side of this. These were single user systems, but seems like you could do multiuser and still keep them light enough to run on a PI board.

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@nicolaottomano@mastodon.uno 2026-05-04 06:31

@joshsutphin On the image size, have you tried WebP and AVIF formats? Their footprint should be very low.

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@robinwhittleton@front-end.social 2026-05-04 13:33

@joshsutphin I did something similar (minus the dithering) on my blog using filter: grayscale(100%) and mix-blend-mode: multiply. E.g. https://www.robinwhittleton.com/2026/01/12/design-systems-and-shareable-browser-support/

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