For People

 

My Tiny Digital Land is different from what you have become familiar with from the mainstream internet. You won’t find content overload, giant images or pulsating banner ads here.

 

My Tiny Digital Land is an alternative, a form of resistance to oppressive digital solutions designed with the intention to steal your attention.

 

As an alternative, I invite you to a world where subtlety prevails. You can experience its manifestations in small gestures of care I designed with you in mind and heart.

   

Accessibility by design

To make this accessible for a wider audience, and especially those who consume content with keyboard or dedicated readers, I have implemented a few improvements:

 

  • Sufficient color contrast between background and text
  • Clear content structure with semantic HTML elements
  • Font size scaling is responsive
  • Images have lazy loading support and alternative text
  • Keyboard navigation structure present
  • Sufficient time provided for reading content
  • No flashing content
  • Clear navigation structure
  • Predictable link behavior

   

OpenSource Typography for neurodivergent readers

Each choice on this site is intentional - a thoughtful decision crafted with purpose and care. This also applies to font used here.

 

It’s Bitstream Vera Sans which was released in 2003 under a unique free license in collaboration with the GNOME Foundation.

 

The font’s significance lies in its role as one of the first high-quality open source fonts, helping establish a foundation for open source typography.

 

What makes this choice unique is that this is a sans serif type font with distinctive letterforms and defined characters to increase legibility for low vision readers.

 

It also provides distinctive letterforms and clear differentiation between similar letters as well thick and thin strokes, which makes content accessible for people with dyslexia, dyscalculia, low vision.

 

Bitstream also maintains readability at various sizes and clear character forms at lower resolutions as well as good recognition in different display conditions.

 

So as you can see, each design decision has its impact and consequences.

   

Time aware

Contemporary design ’trends’ are driven by a greedy agenda to extract as much as possible from our most precious resource: time.

 

That is why to help you consciously manage this resource, I have deployed timer in the footer, so that you could stay informed how long you have already been here without losing a track of time.

   

Leave a greeting instead of comment

The comments function in My Tiny Digital Land has been deliberately disabled. This decision was guided by the intention to shorten potential opportunities to spend extra time here.

 

If you have a need to leave your remark, you can drop me a classical email message or leave a note in my guest book.

 

 

Alternatively, you can also send a strong enough intention that we can meet in the real world and create an opportunity for a meaningful conversation.

   

Conciouss technology

 

Static website

This website is a static solution.

 

What does it mean?

Its content has been created ahead carefully on my computer and then uploaded on a server as .html files.

 

Content here will change only when I manually update it.

 

This approach eliminates the need for server-side processing or database lookups, allowing quick delivery of content to you, but most importantly requires significantly less server processing power.

 

It means it consumes less power and requires less complex infrastructure, and even less maintenance. Environmentally speaking, it’s worth being static!

   

Purely Open Source.. almost

Technology stack used for developing this website was (almost) purely Open Source.

 

Why is this important?

Open source software (OSS) plays a crucial role in societal progress and environmental sustainability, offering numerous advantages over proprietary software (like the one provided by Google or Microsoft)

 

Transparency and Trust

 

OSS promotes transparency as its source code is publicly accessible. This allows users to inspect, modify, and improve the software, fostering trust among community

 

Equal access to technology

 

OSS enables individuals and organizations from diverse backgrounds to utilize high-quality software without the burden of licensing fees. Democratization of technology helps bridge the digital divide and promotes equal opportunities in education and employment

 

Common good development

 

By treating software as a public good, open source initiatives can enhance public services such as healthcare and education

 

Encouragement of sustainable practices

 

Open source fosters sustainable development by providing tools that can be adapted to local needs without incurring high costs. This flexibility allows communities to implement solutions that are environmentally friendly and economically accessible

   

My Open Source Software stack:

 

I respect honesty in relationships, that is why I will also share with you my little dirty secret.

 

In the process of developing this website I’ve been also using Claude AI which has helped me to optimize code, identify bugs and check speeling. I’ve chosen Anthropic as it seems to follow some of the most promising ethical standards when it comes to AI development.

 

Unfortunately not all of them … this solution is hosted on AWS, which is why I have limited its usage to the bare minimum.

 

Considering the fact that Amazon is one of the most evil companies operating on this planet - yes, there is reason to feel shame for contributing at any point in their existence. I know. But nobody is perfect. Using this product is my dirty little secter (now officialy public). It’s like a vegan who from time to time in the middle of the night secretly bites into a piece of sausage just to remind himself of the taste of meat.

 

I am still researching more ethical AI alternatives that could be hosted locally, but don’t have enough experience yet to make a clear statement in this field. When I’m ready, I will share my thoughts on that with you.

   

Old hardware compatibility

This site was developed with the intention of minimizing the impact on your computer hardware. The design has been adapted for use by older devices, which means that this Tiny Digital World does not contribute to artificially obsolescing any hardware through software.

 

And this is how it should be! Always supportive never preclusive

   

No tracking scripts

I don’t use any type of tracking technology in my Tiny Digital Land. It doesn’t matter where you’re coming from. The only thing that matters is that you are already here!

 

But if you wish to let me know what brought you here and how you found out about my Tiny Land, you can always leave a note in my Guest Book.

 

Any remark will be an extremely valuable source of information.

   

Environment

 

Media at the request

 

All the media you find here are called up at your request. The choice of how you consume them remains solely with you. I do not impose anything on you, only encourage.

 

Each media item includes an alternative description, providing a preview of its content.

 

Information about file sizes is also provided upfront, allowing you to make informed decisions about your data usage.

 

You can check it below

CLICK TO LOAD IMAGE (30 KB)
test-image.webp

All media have maximum width 800px and have been converted into formats which are lightweight and consume less energy.

 

Image: WebP  

Video: WebM

   

Was it a puff? No it’s a CO2 emission.

 

Visualizing enviromental impact of the Internet is hard.

 

To pay your attention to the green gas emission associated with operational footprint of websites I have developed a sound effect for some elements in order to remind you that each action generates a significantly small amount of energy demand and emission associated.

 

This action is called sonic branding, active an extra sense which has been unmentioned in narratives about environmental footprint, opening another dimension for contemplation.

 

 

If embedded sounds are annoying, you can always mute them - there’s a dedicated function for that in the footer.

   

Good for your eye and consuming less energy

The color chosen for this website’s background mimics e-ink readers.

 

Those type of screens have been shown to offer significant advantages comparing to regular OLED solutions, such as: reduced light emission, less visual fatigue, and better overall ocular health.

 

Using less bright colors in interface design generally causes significantly more visual comfort.

 

This color combination and high contrast with the font also allows you to reduce brightness on your screen while reading.

 

Which I highly recommend you do, as there is a clear linear relationship between brightness settings and power consumption: brightness increases from 0% to 100%, power consumption rises correspondingly.

   

Data excratvism free zone

 

My Tiny Digital Land is protected from the ChatGPT and Google Bard bots. It would be like pulling vegetables out of the ground with impunity without the farmer’s permission.

 

I have banned BOts from scrapping data posted here. I don’t want my thoughts to be used to train their AI models.

 

The electricity demand associated with AI is growing at an alarming rate.

 

There are some sources suggest that AI already accounts for around 10-15% of Google’s annual electricity consumption, but those estimations can be propably 6 times higher than they claim.

 

I am actively resisting the use of my thoughts to escalate this problem.

 

To prevent AI bots like GPTBot, Google-Extended, and Googlebot from scanning your website, you can configure robots.txt file with a few lines of code you can find below, and then place it in the root directory of your website.


User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /

   

And that would be all!

 

I hope you had and will enjoy your precious time here.

It’s soooo great to have you!