social.pollux.casa

I try a new Fediverse client using only HTML and basic CSS (no JS). It is written in PHP

Web eco-design

Best practice guidelines

Our digital uses already represent 40% of our annual sustainable budget, both in terms of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and the depletion of the last reserves of non-renewable resources (abiotic resources). That's 10 times too much!

Eco-designing digital services allows us to better control and limit their environmental and health impacts...

https://rweb.greenit.fr/en

#smolweb #ecodesign #smallweb

The future of UX is green: On the Web Sustainability Guidelines | 2026 | Talks | Events | W3C

A look at what the W3C’s new Web Sustainability Guideline are and how to apply them in practice.

https://www.w3.org/events/talks/2026/the-future-of-ux-is-green-on-the-web-sustainability-guidelines/

#sustainability #smallweb #smolweb

We're all walking contradictions, and that's okay.

I champion Free Software, self-host everything, and preach digital sovereignty... and I carry an #iPhone in my pocket 🤷‍♀️ No shame.

(Still no Windows though. Some lines you just don't cross. 😅)

Your values don't have to be a perfect system. They just have to be yours.

All my clients wanted a carousel, now it's an AI chatbot!

It always starts the same way. The client pulls out their phone mid-meeting, navigates to a competitor's website, and holds the screen up like evidence.

"You see? They have one of those."

A little bubble. Bottom right corner. Blinking...

Read more :
https://adele.pages.casa/md/blog/all-my-clients-wanted-a-carousel-now-it-s-an-ai-chatbot.md

#ai #webdev #smolweb #experience

Do you know of any movement promoting minimal, utilitarian writing, stripping everything down to what the recipient actually needs?

Asking because I see many people writing a rough draft, asking an AI to polish it, bloat it, and the recipient uses another AI to summarize it. Two humans, zero actual communication.

There's #plainlanguage and #Crocker 's Rules, but nothing focused specifically on cutting the fluff from everyday writing.

Could #smolwrite (or another name) be a thing?

#language #ai #writing #communication

New blog post

Building your first smolweb page

A simple news article that takes ten seconds to load and eats 50 MB of data. You've seen that. We all have. Mountains of JavaScript, giant CSS frameworks, third-party trackers, custom fonts pulled from remote servers... all of that to display a few paragraphs of text.

The smolweb pushes back against that...

https://adele.pages.casa/md/blog/building-your-first-smolweb-page.md

#smolweb #smallweb #html #howto

🌟 Pollux is one of the main stars in the Gemini constellation.
🏠​ Casa means home.

pollux.casa = your home in the Gemini constellation.

Free Gemini capsule hosting. No server to manage.

You can get:
- gemini://yourname.pollux.casa/
- Also on https:// (for friends not on Gemini yet)
- SFTP to upload your content
- Free to leave anytime, take your capsule with you

The whole thing runs on a small Intel NUC in my home:
Celeron N2830. 4GB RAM. ADSL.

110 capsules. Still going. 🚀

Because the SmolWeb doesn't need big iron.

What would you name your capsule on gemini://pollux.casa/

https://pollux.casa

#GeminiProtocol #SmolWeb #LowTech #FOSS

📧 What if email services had limits BY DESIGN?

Not to upsell you.
Not to force you to pay.
But to make you more intentional.

message.casa was created for this purpose!

✉️ Email:
• 128 MB storage (not 15 GB bloat)
• 64 emails/hour (no spam machines)
• 8 MB attachments (no bloat)
• Unlimited aliases (privacy++)

💬 XMPP messaging:
• 8-day history (live in the present)
• 256 contacts max (meaningful connections)
• 16-person group chats (human-scale)

🔒 Privacy-first:
• No personal data for signup
• Encrypted storage (LUKS)
• No tracking, no ads
• TLS required

The philosophy: Constraints foster creativity.
Limited storage = delete what doesn't matter.
Small groups = actual conversations.
Short history = be present.

This is email/chat for the SmolWeb era.

Try it: https://message.casa/

Do limits make you more intentional?

#SmolWeb #Email #XMPP #Privacy #LowTech

fen2board

A #Python script to convert #chess positions (FEN notation) and games (PGN format) into beautiful chessboard diagrams.

Supports multiple output formats:

• Terminal display with Unicode chess pieces and ANSI colors
• ASCII text with monochrome or color modes
• RTF documents with Chess Cases font or ASCII characters

https://codeberg.org/adele/fen2board

I survive without #WhatsApp, without #Telegram, without #Signal, without #Teams, without #FacebookMessenger even if social pressure is huge (for WhatsApp in particular)

My main discussions channels are #email, #xmpp and the #Fediverse
I've tried #deltachat but removed it because I have no contact using it.

I wonder if some Fediverse instances specialise in #adult #dating ? 🤔

New themes have been defined on https://writes.casa/

#write #read #writing

Already 50 mailboxes on https://message.casa/

Create your own to get your email address and instant messaging account

#xmpp #mailbox #email #smolweb #smolnet #smallweb

I have to repost it:

What if the U.S. cut off Big Tech from Europe? A nightmare for many European firms | Adële's blog
https://adele.pages.casa/md/blog/what-if-us-cut-off-big-tech-from-europe.md

After several decades using #Linux I can say that the best distributions, for me, are #Archlinux and #Debian
Arch when I need the last version of all the software I use, and Debian if I want a robust platform.

My both laptops and one server run Arch, other 4 machines use Debian (12 or 13)

When I'm not feeling very well, when I'm feeling down or blue, I put on my headphones and listen to The XX. Their music is like medicine for my soul.

Here's Sunset, from their album Coexist. (Listen with headphones so the bass can massage your brain cells.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7r8J5rrPJA

I’m sorry, but I have switched from #Firefox to #Chromium
I don’t believe it could be a good browser anymore 😔
#Librewolf is still an alternative but it is now to dependant of a software going to the wrong direction

#ArchLinux - News: NVIDIA 590 driver drops Pascal and lower support; main packages switch to Open Kernel Modules
https://archlinux.org/news/nvidia-590-driver-drops-pascal-support-main-packages-switch-to-open-kernel-modules/

Noël est souvent la période où les geeks se font "harceler" de questions techniques par leurs proches. L'année dernière, je donnais mon avis sur les boites Gmail et on me demandait quelle alternative utiliser pour la messagerie. J'étais un peu nue pour répondre à cela : protonmail ou tuta ? mais ils incitent régulièrement à passer à l'offre payante et à utiliser leurs autres services (VPN, drive, password vault...). En plus, les clients de messagerie standard ne sont pas compatibles.

C'est ce qui m'a donné l'idée de proposer https://message.casa une boite mail (avec un compte xmpp), certes limitée en volume mais gratuite et respectant les protocoles standard IMAP/POP3/SMTP.

Alors, si vous aussi on vous parle de boite mail à Noël, vous pourrez proposer message.casa ;-)