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Low Tech Magazine runs on a single solar panel. We take for granted just how much energy is needed to keep up with our digital footprint. The tenet of the magazine is to radically reimagine our technology in more sustainable ways. The website has solar panel data so you can see how charged the website is. Running on solar means the website does go offline at times when the sun isn't out. In a world where access to information is so ubiquitous, it's really cool to have a website that isn't always going to be online.
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I'm into running so I made a website of cool running gear
Apr 30, 2024
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*extremely* techy rec here but this is like a webring for sites that have less than 512kb of uncompressed data total. so many websites now just dump a fucking truckload of bullshit on you (ads, analytics, fonts, way too much js) just so you can read one goddamn text article, and it's really invigorating to see developers push back on this lazy, ecologically destructive habit. i just added my own personal site (219.83kb 🕶️) and if you have a site that qualifies i recommend you join the cause
Oct 5, 2024
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What i really love so very much is that, for me, this website is a website that i only visit when i'm at home, on my mac. I have no desire to check this website on my phone, and i am so very happy that this website resonates with me that way.
It feels how old internet felt :-)
Mar 2, 2025
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it’s like eating the sun itself
Mar 16, 2024
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and then share it anyway. the people who like it will be grateful you did. who cares if people don’t like it? you didn’t make it for them.
Feb 2, 2024
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Sometimes I get caught up chasing ideals of love. Growing up with immigrant parents in the US, I wished my parents showed me love the way my friends' parents did. My parents seemed cold in comparison to the affection I saw my friends receiving. I fell for best friends who did love me but never enough and never in the ways I wanted them to.
Nowadays I have grown to appreciate the ways in which my parents do show me love -- when they ask if I've eaten or when I dye my mom's hair as she peels me oranges. Friendship to me no longer needs to be tied up in such rigid binaries. It's not the label of a relationship I'm after but rather just the intimacy of knowing other people. I try not to focus so much on how I wish to be loved by other people and instead pay attention to all the different ways I am loved. Acting with a mindset of abundance rather than scarcity. And in that way, everything feels enough.
Disclaimer: Establishing boundaries is paramount. Love that is corrosive or manipulative is not love.
Feb 1, 2024