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Fri, 09 Oct 2026 15:50:38 GMT

Same Water, Three Different Stories: What Our Soil Probes Learned in a Rainless Summer

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.

Sun, 20 Sep 2026 17:11:05 GMT

Practical Groupware for Good Governance

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.

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 17:56:26 GMT

RSS love

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!

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 17:14:52 GMT

Testing ActivityPub from WP

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!

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 07:27:03 GMT

PS: Now it works! thanks again @dave

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 07:25:24 GMT

Thanks @dave for opening this up! one question: why does the "Feed" link pull a 404? would be nice to see the feed, if it's no trouble for you to turn it on.