No rain fell on the farm from May to September, and three garden beds got the same irrigation. Soil probes at four depths show three very different fates for that water: held deep in a hügelkultur bed, kept in steady reserve under an alley-cropped bed, barely past the surface in our control. Next: let the soil set the schedule.

Every organisation i work with keeps its decisions in documents that quietly forget why they were made. Resolve a comment and the reasoning disappears. There is tooling that does not work that way; it is thirty-five years old, it runs the software your phone is built on, and almost nobody outside that world has noticed.

Taking my cue from Andrew Shell (of rssCloud Server fame, about which you will be hearing more soon ;-), i have added a little feature to the footer of this site, which expresses my appreciation to Dave Winer, Andrew and the wonderful RSS community, which makes syndication of all sites great and small Really Simple!

I just learned that it’s possible to join this WordPress blog to the Fediverse, by simply activating the ActivityPub plugin that is already installed… So let’s see if this works!

Technical or not, human or AI – could Bram be the missing link? In “What Is the Terminal?” Jon Udell frames the problem that his new product Bram aims to mitigate -and does surprisingly well, considering how new it is. The terminal has become far more approachable and powerful in this age of AI agents […]

A temporary pond at first light: a mirror dappled in pink Still more white than pink, in fact, but becoming more pink by the day (something to do with their diet, i gather), the wife & i have been seeing these birds in the early hours of each day, heading out on our morning walk… […]

How a flock of organizations can find each other on the open web — with no one in charge.

Still: my wife takes the prize for this one…

Good interview with Jimmy Wales, in which he tells how Wikipedia strives to maintain its utility as a trusted source of truth, even as it has become deeply embroiled in the Culture Wars swirling about it. One of the key antagonists in this war is Elon Musk, wielding the recently launched Grokipedia as his primary […]

Per this open issue posted to the Scripting-News repo, it sounds like it should be possible soon to have Markdown support in the RSS feed for this site -a feature i would very much like to leverage here, once it is truly available.