Latest posts tagged with #MinimalComputing on Bluesky
Users reminisced about other minimal distros like Alpine, SliTaz, and Puppy Linux. The discussion highlighted how much could be achieved with limited resources in the past, contrasting with today's often resource-heavy software. #MinimalComputing 4/6
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Is there a #lowtech #mastodon / #fediverse client, or server (fork)?
Thinking something which minimises bandwidth/power/storage consumption, like the work which has been done on @lowtechmagazine (solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about/the-solar-website/ […]
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#permacomputing and #minimalcomputing share similarities! Time to get to know each other? #digitalhumanities #dh
Today, I was extremely tired, nothing weird as the work week was quite tough. Nevertheless, I had some space to read about #plan9 it simply is an interesting OS. I am now playing around with #troff a bit. I really see potential to explore Plan 9 under a #minimalcomputing perspective #dh #blog
‘What do we need, not to scale, but to survive?’
#DigHum
#MinimalComputing
The image is a flyer advertising a call for papers for a session at the IMC2026, Leeds with the following text: Call for Papers: Minimal Computing and the Middle Ages (Leeds International Medieval Congress 2026) Minimal computing is a loose set of ideas and methodologies in digital humanities research, broadly based around the idea of limitations in resources, whether financial, environmental, infrastructural, labour, or otherwise. As Risam and Gill (2022) put it, minimal computing advocates call for “using only the technologies that are necessary” to achieve a research aim. In this way, minimal computing intends to promote the accessibility of digital scholarship in a wide variety of contexts, counteracting conflation of digital humanities scholarship with expensive software licences, powerful computers or programming expertise (among other concepts). We invite papers that consider these issues as they relate to medieval studies. As the climate crisis worsens, the sustainability of high-performance computing and associated digital research methods have come under scrutiny. Moreover, the difficult funding situation in many countries and institutions poses further problems to the sustainability of digital medieval studies. Expensive equipment, software and computing capacity remains out of reach of many early career, contingent and independent scholars, particularly those without affiliations to well-funded research universities. Minimal computing can be a philosophical choice, but also a choice out of pragmatic necessity. If you would like to participate, please send a 150 word abstract, a short bio (no more than 40 words), institutional affiliation, contact details and preferred pronouns to Eddie Meehan at e.g.meehan@leeds.ac.uk and Jon Dell Isola at 02dellisola@cua.edu. Abstracts are due by 23:59 BST on Wednesday 10th September.
📜 CfP: Minimal Computing and the Middle Ages, IMC2026, Leeds (UK)
The session will explore the intersection of #minimalcomputing and #medieval studies for sustainable, accessible, and ethical approaches to #digital scholarship in a time of limited resources.
📅Deadline: 23:59 BST, 10/09/25
Scrolling causally through the HTML4 specification at the moment, we sometimes do forget how much we actually are able to create with pure compliant HTML4. #html #web #www #minimalcomputing
Really useful read, and I'm particularly grateful to be introduced to the #MinimalComputing approach, Roopika.
I will use it as a learning opportunity. I teach things like this as entry-points, but I always tell students to go beyond entry points precisely because of this. #minimalcomputing forever.
You want to use a #StaticSiteGenerator and need to support #multilingual sites? It’s now easier than ever! For quite a while, #Pelican had a great plugin for that use case. Now I helped migrate it to the new plugin format, which means that it can easily be installed from #PyPI […]
Rebuilt my neovim config (and added tmux!) from what I could salvage after nuking everything. Feels way cleaner now.
Sometimes a reset is all it takes.
#neovim #tmux #dotfiles #minimalcomputing
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Link: github.com/AinaMatth/do...
Ultimately, the debate centers on whether projects like Sectorlisp are valuable explorations of minimal computing or merely niche curiosities. Can genuinely useful programs or deep insights emerge from Lisp in ~510 bytes? #minimalcomputing 5/5
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There's 1 week left to register at earlybird pricing for the 2025 DH@Guelph Summer Workshops! If you're interested in learning about #digitalarchives #minimalcomputing #digitalmisogynoir #digitaleditions #TEI #mediaarchaeology and #feministmaking, these are for you!
www.uoguelph.ca/arts/researc...
In the editorial, @roopikarisam.bsky.social and @readywriting.bsky.social problematise Big EdTech, with a nod to the pre-digital history of #edtech. They foreground the leading question of #minimalcomputing: What do we need? And ask what this means for education. #DH
Minimal Computing and Educational Technology Edited by Roopika Risam and Lee Skallerup Bessette Together, the essays in this special issue offer a global look at EdTech and how minimal computing offers an alternative to the narrative of technological solutionism that drives Big EdTech. The recommendations from the World Bank and UK Aid about the adoption of EdTech during the pandemic, written by Pellini et al. (2021), noted, ‘No matter how brilliant the EdTech research, unless it considers the unique political economy factors that drive evidence uptake in the country concerned, it may not be used or reach the eyes and ears of decision-makers’ (21). By taking these matters into account with attention to the constraints that influence their engagement with EdTech, contributors to the special issue offer evidence-based conclusions about the value of minimal computing and the possibility of a minimal EdTech (MiniEdTech).
🟨Volume 49, Issue 5 (2024) of LMT🟪
Guest editors @roopikarisam.bsky.social and
@readywriting.bsky.social present how #minimalcomputing offers an alternative to the narrative of technological solutionism that drives Big EdTech.
Read all articles: www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjem20/4...
The talk will take a closer look at concepts of #MinimalComputing, #NimbleTents and #PirateCare. Sign up now! edin.ac/3Yt3xu6
Check out the #BillyBudd exhibit @grolierclub in NYC Sept 9-Nov 12. This digital critical edition was built using #EditionCrafter, a tool we created in collaboration with
Columbia University's Making & Knowing Group. dh.tools/grolierclub #DigitalHumanities #MinimalComputing
Pi Day isn't just for bakers (🥧) or mathematicians (π)!
Join the @dh-researchhub.bsky.social this Thursday to explore how Raspberry Pi computers can be used for humanities research.
#DH #minimalcomputing @sasnews.bsky.social
