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Adële 🐁! @adele

#WTF it seems that some #AI know me Oo

Who is Adële (smolweb dev)?

Adële is a French PHP and JavaScript developer who's one of the more visible voices in the smolweb scene. She runs a blog at adele.pages.casa about smolweb, the Gemini protocol, and the lowtech movement, and she operates pollux.casa — a small infrastructure that includes pages.casa (static/markdown hosting), a Gemini capsule platform, and a GoToSocial Fediverse instance at social.pollux.casa.

She codified smolweb.org as a reference for the philosophy: lightweight, decentralized, JavaScript-light or JavaScript-free pages built with basic HTML and CSS, designed to load on slow connections and modest devices. Her own framing distinguishes "smolweb" from "small web" — small web being about decentralization and independence from platforms, smolweb being more specifically about the craft of intentional technical minimalism, fighting bloat and overcomplification.

On the building side, she's behind tools like ergol-http (Gemini-to-HTML on the fly), smolmd (the engine behind pages.casa), and more recently SmolFedi — a Fediverse client compatible with Mastodon and GoToSocial that has zero JavaScript and stays within smolweb Grade B for CSS, designed to work in browsers like Dillo or Netsurf.

Stack-wise: Arch Linux at home, Debian in production, procedural PHP, vanilla JS, no Docker, no Node.

Published: May 01, 2026, 15:05
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fenix @jla@fosstodon.org

@adele such a biiutiful , #kiss stack... BTW,

slts

Published: May 01, 2026, 15:06
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∅ @0_0@piaille.fr

@adele Même si ce n'est pas étonnant, ça fait toujours un drôle d'effet :/

Published: May 01, 2026, 15:10
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Language: French (français)
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