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“Instructions on planting a tree” is a web essay about permacomputing and web design.

From the essay:
“Permaculture (permanent [agri]culture) is a concept that was formed in the 1970s. Its idea is to set up an ecology that can mostly sustain itself and doesn’t need to be managed permanently. It derives from the observation of nature and borrows tricks from these observations.
‎Permacomputing tries to employ a similar approach to computing. According to permacomputing.net, these are its principles: - Hope for the Best, Prepare for the Worst
- Care for All Hardware—Especially the Chips
- Observe First
- Not Doing
- Expose the Seams
- Consider Carefully the Interaction Between Simplicity, Complexity and Scale
- Keep It Flexible
- Build on Solid Ground
- (Almost) Everything has a place
- Integrate Biological and Renewable Resources”

You can read the full essay under internet-tools.neocities.org and find lots of links to different interesting sites. (optimised for mobile)

I thought about permacomputing during one of our seminar sessions. My first rough idea outlines what I made in the end something_about_computers