User:Tomasparks.name

Tom A Sparks

I am a Alternative Technology Researcher, with a focus on Digital Communication Networks. #VennDiagram #Researcher #Web3D #RetroComputerUser #Artist #DigitalCommunicationNetworks #fidonet #DtnRg #indieweb #archivist #kopimi #aspie

https://tomasparks.name/

Chat Nickname: tomasparks

Elsewhere:  @tomasparksts github

Contact: Email

I believe the Indieweb project is a stepping stone to a Completely distributed network.

Itches

• become offline first centric
• go green computing
• creating a mindmap
• getting other people to to join the indieweb movement

Cloud computing / hosting

• I have started to move my website off GitHub_Pages to Linode's s3 completed
• I have started to set up a Linode's VPS to host my own git repository with Gitea because I am hitting GitHub free limits almost completed I am setting up my own homelab to host Gitea
• moving my static data from Linode's s3 to backblaze_b2 because of Linode's s3 cost. turns out I need to move my websites back to Linode's s3 because backblaze_b2's s3 does not support CNAME. I am still host my larger files on b2.
• I am using CloudFlare for CDNing

The cost of cloud compute like aws ECS and Linode's VPN is not worth the money, building a homelab is going to give me more bang for my buck.

Offline/asynchronous mode

normal

• I am trying to come up with a way to go offline while I can asynchronously upload/download stuff. (think: dial-up Internet/BBS)
• I own a | Psion 5mx Pro (16Mb) NOT running Linux

hands free

I am looking for a hands-free audio-only of:

• taking notes
• annotating podcast / audio

hardware: mp3 player with recording feature, Throat microphone

voice comments

see voice-comments

Sharding my website

Also known as multi-site_indieweb

I use Jekyll as my website generator

• I have parts of my website that are updated infrequently
• I host larger binary blobs (videos, 3D models)
• I have themes for different section of my website

Website Sections

• main (blog, about me) - Dynix theme
• retro space sim (webgl/X3D game) - dev blog: labnotebook theme
• minatures (papercraft models) - labnotebook theme
• notes - PDA-like theme
• gallery / scrapbook (photos) - wood theme?
• my alt-dtn ebook - ebook theme