We did it boys! Battery is no more: https://lemmy.zip/post/72181546
This post is a follow-up to my original post: https://lemmy.zip/post/71885626
Surprisingly, it wasn’t that tough to set up.
My original plan was to install postmarketOS and turn the phone into a proper tiny Linux server. Unfortunately, my Moto E5 Play is the pettyl variant, while the available postmarketOS port is for james. I decided that turning the phone into a brick probably wasn’t an essential part of the project.
So I went with Termux instead.
It’s now running nginx, PHP, MariaDB, WordPress, SSH and cloudflared directly on the phone. Everything starts automatically on boot, and I even made a tiny WordPress plugin for anonymous Today / Total / Online visitor stats.
And yes, the website is being served by the exact phone in the photo.
1 GB of RAM. Somehow this thing is now a production server.
I named it Pettyl, after the device codename.
You can actually visit it at https://moto.dimitrium.org/.
The website is barebones, I plan to push it to the limits. Also, this project will soon be available on my GitHub page https://github.com/tradicije
Next problem: figuring out how long an old Motorola can tolerate my bullshit.
update: Now you can leave your thoughts on the website, as @autriyo@feddit.org suggested, and I loved the idea so much I had to implement it immediately.
Note: No personal information is required. Visitor statistics use an anonymous browser identifier, and the guestbook only stores what you choose to submit.
Dude, that NAND is going to get chewed up by the database? Platter still do good with a long time of writes.
You should put a webcam showing the server log scrolling on the phone screen. Sanitized of any sensitive info, of course.
I have one accessibility quibble:
WCAG 2.2.2 recommends that any moving content, such as your carousel of reviews, have some mechanism to pause it. More information can be found in the accompanying Understanding WCAG document.
I didn’t do any full accessibility test on your page. I don’t know if you care about WCAG compliance anyway, and frankly, I wouldn’t expect it for a hobby project. It’s just one of the details a professor of mine drilled me on so thoroughly that I still remember it eight years later.
As a UI/UX hobby designer I absolutely understand what you are talking about and yes, I should add the ability of the carousel to move with fingers/mouse, just haven’t gotten into it yet
Then you’re probably more knowledgeable on the topic than me. I did a great job of only learning the basic minimum of frontend development in my WebDev classes, never mind UI design or UX testing. If it weren’t for a webapp QA gig I did for a while, I would’ve had no experience with usability at all.
