Earlier this year we’ve been asked to help redesign the website of lowtechmagazine.com. The primary goal of the redesign was to radically reduce the energy use associated with accessing their web content. At the same time it is an attempt to find out what a low-tech website could be.

In general the idea behind lowtechmagazine.com is to understand technologies and techniques of the past and combine them with the knowledge of today. Not in order to be able to ‘do more with the same’, but rather ‘to do the same with less’.

Our new website is designed to radically reduce the energy use associated with accessing our content.

Low-tech Magazine was born in 2007 and has seen minimal changes ever since. Because a website redesign was long overdue — and because we try to practice what we preach — we decided to build a low-tech, self-hosted, and solar-powered version of Low-tech Magazine. The new blog is designed to radically reduce the energy use associated with accessing our content.

PocketBase was created to assist building self-contained applications that can run on a single server without requiring to install anything in addition (see Presentator#183 ).
The basic idea is that the common functionality like crud, auth, files upload, auto TLS, etc. are handled out of the box, allowing you to focus on the UI and your actual app business requirements.

Please note that PocketBase is neither a startup, nor a business. There is no paid team or company behind it. It is a personal open source project with intentially limited scope and developed entirely on volunteer basis. There are no promises for maintenance and support beyond what is already available (you can explore the Roadmap to get a general idea where the project is headed but there are no fixed ETAs).