Short dated notes from the garden, the workbench and the building of this library.https://asacourtesy.fyi/en-ushttps://asacourtesy.fyi/notes/2026-10-11-the-library-opens/https://asacourtesy.fyi/notes/2026-10-11-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 up so someone else can pick them up. Yours are welcome. Add a resource.Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://asacourtesy.fyi/notes/2026-10-03-drawings-not-emoji/https://asacourtesy.fyi/notes/2026-10-03-drawings-not-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 on purpose. The logo came out of the same afternoon: a sun rising with a seedling cut out of it, circuit traces above and roots below.Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://asacourtesy.fyi/notes/2026-09-30-joro-season/https://asacourtesy.fyi/notes/2026-09-30-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 them. They're harmless, just in the way. Living alongside Joro spiders.Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://asacourtesy.fyi/notes/2026-09-28-ornaments-ate-the-layout/https://asacourtesy.fyi/notes/2026-09-28-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 the whole page sideways on small screens. They're pinned behind everything now, where ornaments belong.Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://asacourtesy.fyi/notes/2026-09-26-left-wordpress/https://asacourtesy.fyi/notes/2026-09-26-left-wordpress/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 site is built.Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://asacourtesy.fyi/notes/2026-09-25-started-a-library/https://asacourtesy.fyi/notes/2026-09-25-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 keep the philosophy and the practice together for whoever comes after us.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://asacourtesy.fyi/notes/2026-09-04-named-the-machines/https://asacourtesy.fyi/notes/2026-09-04-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 charge of anything else. The full list.Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://asacourtesy.fyi/notes/2026-07-20-one-pile-three-directions/https://asacourtesy.fyi/notes/2026-07-20-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 yet, just a map of what goes where and which devices cover for each other. The write-up.Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://asacourtesy.fyi/notes/2026-07-19-math-before-buying/https://asacourtesy.fyi/notes/2026-07-19-math-before-buying/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 reused office desktop pulls about 40 W, around 960 Wh a day, almost ten times everything else on the list combined. It's still the plan for the server, but now…Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT