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I have to confess I've got back to the smol web.
And there are two reasons for it. First, Adële's smol website and the links therein have got me inspired. There's a plethora of indy, light-bloat sites with interesting content and resources to reach them: a true alternative web. And given that, neither gemini nor gopher nor any other protocol I know is meant to replace the web, I think it's important to fight the Big Bad Web in its own turf.
Secondly, there's an opportunity to show what a corner of the web can be. More accessible, more friendly to people, better designed, faster and even easier to manage. And that in a humble, unpretentious way, a celebration of “good enough”, a sane haven. This is, in part, with a style taken from gemini, as it should be pretty evident in my site. Well, I hope.
It's still more work than a gemini capsule, even with very nice tools like Uriel or dithering. But it's something that needs to be done.
I won't dwell much more into this here, as I'm documenting the thing on the site. (Though the Spanish part of it is in a more advanced state) However, this won't be a copy+paste from my capsule. Some of the content would be available on both places because, why not?, but I'll skip what's more relevant to Gemini (say a reply to a Geminaut, etc) and edit what I need to edit.
Uriel is a minimalist, stable, feature complete static site generator, written in Python.
Kagi.com ~ Small web search engine
Wiby ~ Small web search engine (it seems to prefer “old-school” sites)
Marginalia, ~ Small web search engine, website explorer, blog…
“Low Tech Magazine” ~ Showing just how useful a smol website can be.
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~ Miguel de Luis Espinosa