Maybe of MinComp interest to @roopikarisam.bsky.social and @elotroalex.bsky.social
"the GOV.UK pages are written in simple HTML. They are designed to be lightweight and will work even on rubbish browsers. They have to."
mohkohn.co.uk/writing/html... referencing shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01...
"the GOV.UK pages are written in simple HTML. They are designed to be lightweight and will work even on rubbish browsers. They have to."
mohkohn.co.uk/writing/html... referencing shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01...
How building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight
My client was a utility company, and they had a big problem...
mohkohn.co.uk
June 11, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Maybe of MinComp interest to @roopikarisam.bsky.social and @elotroalex.bsky.social
"the GOV.UK pages are written in simple HTML. They are designed to be lightweight and will work even on rubbish browsers. They have to."
mohkohn.co.uk/writing/html... referencing shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01...
"the GOV.UK pages are written in simple HTML. They are designed to be lightweight and will work even on rubbish browsers. They have to."
mohkohn.co.uk/writing/html... referencing shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01...
Our public events next week: @claudiaeberger.bsky.social on environmental history+data phys; @literaturegeek.bsky.social #mincomp magic w/zine+letterpress csv data; @epikt.bsky.social & @ceyingst.bsky.social #bytesizedpedagogy glitch video, yarn+paper+ for videogame analysis; aircraft lasercutting
We've got many of our spring term events scheduled, w/even more coming soon! Check out scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/events/ for the latest DH & experimental scholarship workshops, speakers, & coffee+chat times, or this 🧵 for a preview:
Events
The Scholars’ Lab
scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu
April 11, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Our public events next week: @claudiaeberger.bsky.social on environmental history+data phys; @literaturegeek.bsky.social #mincomp magic w/zine+letterpress csv data; @epikt.bsky.social & @ceyingst.bsky.social #bytesizedpedagogy glitch video, yarn+paper+ for videogame analysis; aircraft lasercutting
Scholars' Lab's @winnieepm.bsky.social launched her professional website! & blogged about her choice to design+code it using a minimal computing approach including Eleventy & making the underlying code public on GitHub #mincomp:
finally, a website, but why is it static?
I. Have. A. Website. ✨ https://winnieepm.github.io/ ✨
scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu
April 22, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Scholars' Lab's @winnieepm.bsky.social launched her professional website! & blogged about her choice to design+code it using a minimal computing approach including Eleventy & making the underlying code public on GitHub #mincomp:
Livetweets of our DH Fellow Seanna Viechweg's amazing work on Caribbean folklore, speculative worldmaking, archival storytelling, pedagogy, #mincomp, ethical community collaboration, & more:
December 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Livetweets of our DH Fellow Seanna Viechweg's amazing work on Caribbean folklore, speculative worldmaking, archival storytelling, pedagogy, #mincomp, ethical community collaboration, & more:
Good useful example of #mincomp in action. I've really been meaning to switch some legacy websites to a setup like this, but haven't had the time.
January 15, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Good useful example of #mincomp in action. I've really been meaning to switch some legacy websites to a setup like this, but haven't had the time.
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20180521175130/https://go-dh.github.io/mincomp/thoughts/2016/10/02/minimal-definitions/ originally retrieved Mon May 21 17:51:30 EDT 2018
January 8, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20180521175130/https://go-dh.github.io/mincomp/thoughts/2016/10/02/minimal-definitions/ originally retrieved Mon May 21 17:51:30 EDT 2018
@stefan_hessbrueggen @joeroe The Minimal Computing group is famous for their use of static site generators, and they have some think pieces, although they don’t explicitly mention SSGs that much: https://go-dh.github.io/mincomp/thoughts/
The classic @proghist article on the topic has some […]
The classic @proghist article on the topic has some […]
Original post on fedihum.org
fedihum.org
October 2, 2025 at 8:22 AM
@stefan_hessbrueggen @joeroe The Minimal Computing group is famous for their use of static site generators, and they have some think pieces, although they don’t explicitly mention SSGs that much: https://go-dh.github.io/mincomp/thoughts/
The classic @proghist article on the topic has some […]
The classic @proghist article on the topic has some […]
A minimal computing manifesto go-dh.github.io/mincomp/thou...
> We use “minimal computing” to refer to computing done under some set of significant constraints of hardware, software, education, network capacity, power, or other factors.
> We use “minimal computing” to refer to computing done under some set of significant constraints of hardware, software, education, network capacity, power, or other factors.
Minimal Definitions (tl;dr version) · Minimal Computing
go-dh.github.io
November 2, 2024 at 2:15 AM
A minimal computing manifesto go-dh.github.io/mincomp/thou...
> We use “minimal computing” to refer to computing done under some set of significant constraints of hardware, software, education, network capacity, power, or other factors.
> We use “minimal computing” to refer to computing done under some set of significant constraints of hardware, software, education, network capacity, power, or other factors.
Posts: Praxis Fellow Oriane Guiziou-Lamour on learning from her 1st semester of our DH program scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/blog/what-on...; @literaturegeek.bsky.social on a #mincomp coding approach w/letterpress & prof dev outcomes scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/blog/minimal...; +
What one semester of Praxis taught me
…judging from my notes:
scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu
January 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Posts: Praxis Fellow Oriane Guiziou-Lamour on learning from her 1st semester of our DH program scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/blog/what-on...; @literaturegeek.bsky.social on a #mincomp coding approach w/letterpress & prof dev outcomes scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/blog/minimal...; +
Thurs 11/13, join us in The Comfy Armchairs for chill learning how a colleague uses tech toward a goal— @winnieepm.bsky.social on Eleventy to create her personal portfolio site (of special interest to folks who dig #mincomp for ethical, learning, design, etc reasons). + the usual Special Coffee!
Coffee + Code with Winnie Pérez Martínez
Join the Scholars' Lab Research and Development team for the finest coffee and freshest discussion of interesting Digital Humanities work! These are weekly, informal gatherings...
cal.lib.virginia.edu
November 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Thurs 11/13, join us in The Comfy Armchairs for chill learning how a colleague uses tech toward a goal— @winnieepm.bsky.social on Eleventy to create her personal portfolio site (of special interest to folks who dig #mincomp for ethical, learning, design, etc reasons). + the usual Special Coffee!
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20180521175130/https://go-dh.github.io/mincomp/thoughts/2016/10/02/minimal-definitions/ originally retrieved Mon May 21 17:51:30 EDT 2018
June 5, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20180521175130/https://go-dh.github.io/mincomp/thoughts/2016/10/02/minimal-definitions/ originally retrieved Mon May 21 17:51:30 EDT 2018
Feed: "Scholars’ Lab"
By: drew-macqueen on Friday, June 5, 2026
By: drew-macqueen on Friday, June 5, 2026
#Mincomp for preservation that matters
Drew reworked the footprint of projects highlighting Indigenous benches in Brazil, to help justify their continued preservation despite the departure of the collaborator from the University.
scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu
June 6, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Feed: "Scholars’ Lab"
By: drew-macqueen on Friday, June 5, 2026
By: drew-macqueen on Friday, June 5, 2026