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The library opens
Every tile on the home page now opens onto a real shelf: growing guides, tools and tech, stories and lore, mutual aid. The first entries are my own projects, written…
Notes from the workbench
Short, dated and first-hand: what got built, what broke, what ripened. Less polished than the library, and closer to the dirt.
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Drawings instead of emoji
Swapped the emoji on the home page for seventeen line icons drawn for the site: sprout, fig, bee, solar panel, soldering iron, a basket for mutual aid. A little uneven…
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Joro season
The Joro webs are back across the yard, some with anchor lines ten feet long. A cobweb brush and a walk to the edge of the woods handles most of…
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The ornaments ate the layout
The home page is up in moss, sage, terracotta and cream, with a dark mode that remembers your choice. Lost an evening to the giant background circles, which kept shoving…
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Left WordPress behind
Yesterday's plan had five plugins and a nine-phase build. Today it's Astro and a folder of plain files, served by Cloudflare. Nothing to patch, nothing to keep alive. How the…
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Started a library
Started building asacourtesy.fyi today. Not just the solar part of solarpunk: the whole picture. Guides, stories, a gallery, tool lists, how-to's, maybe music and games one day. A place to…
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Named the machines
Every device gets a garden job for a name: pollinator, forager, decomposer, aerator, weaver and the rest. "Command" was the first word to go. Nothing on this network is in…
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One pile, three directions
Laid out every board and computer I own and asked what each could become. Three answers: a sensor mesh, an offline knowledge hub, and a solar web server. No code…
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Did the math before buying anything
Spent the evening with a spreadsheet instead of a shopping cart. Every device on the bench got a line: watts, hours, watt-hours a day. The surprise was the OptiPlex. One…