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- main_gi 6y agoFunny that the first post sticks out from the rest (a digital project vs. the physical ones). Notably it's more 3x3 a lot of the time. I wonder if the creator also felt like they had to make use of all the 3 pixels of horizontal space for some of these characters. The lowercase "l" is what I'd be using for a "1", with my lowercase "l" being 2 pixels wide, for instance.
- alanbernstein 6y agoI thought the 4x4 grid was an odd choice, especially when calling it the "smallest" font. 5x3 is one fewer pixel of area per character, and about 10x more legible IMO. Funny enough, I do have a 4x8 pixel RGB display, which frustrates me because I've long thought of 5x3 as the only viable tiny font. I might get more use out of it with this 4x4 font.
- liveoneggs 6y agoyou can read it?
- alanbernstein 6y agoThe 4x4? Barely.
- Jenz 6y agoThis is very cool
- 52-6F-62 6y agoThis is really interesting. Bookmarked.
- oftenwrong 6y agoI have to say that aside from a few things* this is what I consider the perfect blog design in terms of structure, styling, layout. * use of HTML tables, month-first dates
- _sbrk 6y agoI'm curious; why do you feel HTML tables are bad?
- oftenwrong 6y agoThey are bad for things that are not tables. I suppose the blog index is a table, though.
- flobosg 6y ago“In my times, we designed sites using only tables and handcrafted 1 pixel spacer gifs! And we did just fine!”
- arantius 6y agoOk, but you didn't say why they're bad. I bought into that hype back in the day. I don't anymore. They're a tool, they're not inherently good or bad.
- Aeolun 6y agoThey’re bad because they force a lot of styling that is hard to remove. When you don’t want that kind of styling you are better off not using tables, instead of making them work for you. I guess that is exactly what you are saying though ;)
- jamesrcole 6y agoOn mobile the text is very small.
- Yen 6y ago
- flobosg 6y agoNice site. It reminds me of the Primitive Technology channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA
- oh_sigh 6y agoThis is more like what everyone dreamed primitive technology would be. Instead every video is him using the same four techniques over and over again and not progressing through the tech tree.
- rabidrat 6y agoHe's 20, we should probably give him a few years before we judge him for not progressing.
- throwaway9482 6y agoWow he’s 20? I had no idea
- oh_sigh 6y agoHe's not. He(John Plant, which is a great nominative deterministic name for a primitivist) is 36 now, and was 31 when he started the channel. source(just listing his age as "mid-30s" in 2017 but close enough): https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/15/youtube-primitive-technology-shows-john-plant-living-in-the-stone-age.html https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/15/youtube-primitive-technology...
- rabidrat 6y agoThanks for setting the record straight, I stand corrected.
- throwaway9482 6y ago:+1: no worries all good
- Paperweight 6y agoI love this! Is there a larger technologist wiki from which you can learn the principles of how to actually build everything from raw materials and generic tools? Examples: casting iron, making blades, making paint, making plastics, making printer ink, making pharmaceuticals that actually work, etc. It really seems that at this stage in the game we should be able to form "off-grid" villages that actually have a pretty good standard of living. Or is that all forbidden knowledge in this stage of our technological enslavation? ;)
- nerdponx 6y agoNot a single condensed source, but there's an abundance of this type of content on Youtube, from both hobbyists and professionals.
- _sbrk 6y ago> there's an abundance of this type of content on Youtube .. who makes their money monetizing the content of others. I respect this guy for staying off the commercialized hosting site and having such a simple, functional website. That is even before my kudos to his work toward duplicating technology from the ground up, and then documenting both success and failure. The latter is something many programmers, including myself, tend to defer until the end of time.
- Mite_ 6y agoApplied science is a channel in a similar vein. Tackles a lot of interesting engineering projects and walks through all of his results till getting his final product. Really interesting stuff. https://www.youtube.com/user/bkraz333 https://www.youtube.com/user/bkraz333
- Paperweight 6y agoThe only problem with YouTube is that it's not organized. It's not indexable or printable. Videos are on Google's servers - here today and gone tomorrow. Videos are GREAT for stuff that you can't put into text, and YouTube excels at getting info out there from people who aren't that good with computers :) What I'm thinking is a real-life open-source "tech tree".
- petrocrat 6y agoThis is like the Open Source Ecology project but for computing hardware.
- nixpulvis 6y agoJust opening now; this looks amazing. I can't wait to read through it all! https://simplifier.neocities.org/fluxset.html https://simplifier.neocities.org/fluxset.html is very interesting, for example.
- sitkack 6y agoI can confirm, working with clay allows a singular focus that one cannot get another way. There is nothing to be looked up, nothing to be copy and pasted from some mailing list or forum. Some techniques are explained on videos on line, but for the most part, it is you and the medium. Depending on where you want to spend your energy and in what capacity, you can play with the clay and get analytical with the glaze or swap them, play with both or calculate with everything, your choice. We don't normally have these choices.
- momentmaker 6y agoDr. Stone is also a fun way to learn some interesting science when everything has became primitive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Stone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Stone
- _bxg1 6y agoWas just about to post this! It's a shockingly educational show, and it's really fun to see hard science get the hyper-romanticized "anime treatment"
- aspenmayer 6y agoThis is like the Primitive Technology channel on Youtube. From the about page: 'Primitive technology is a hobby where you build things in the wild completely from scratch using no modern tools or materials. These are the strict rules: If you want a fire, use a fire stick - An axe, pick up a stone and shape it - A hut, build one from trees, mud, rocks etc. The challenge is seeing how far you can go without utilizing modern technology. I do not live in the wild, but enjoy building shelter, tools, and more, only utilizing natural materials. To find specific videos, visit my playlist tab for building videos focused on pyrotechnology, shelter, weapons, food & agriculture, tools & machines, and weaving & fiber.' https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA
- cool-guy-69 6y agoSo this is what a 21st century luddite looks like!
- CliffStoll 6y agoWow - he made a triode! Several of 'em.
- tingletech 6y agoThey have a few videos up on youtube too https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7edFw3ys5w6eN6xMrIcOWg/videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7edFw3ys5w6eN6xMrIcOWg/vid...