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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”

In summary the text is about being more considerate when using and creating the internet.

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). As I also got more and more interested in woodworking and wanted to create one last (for now) object after the hammer and bench, I looked for a way to give my website a physical location. In the beginning I wanted to build a solar-powered display, which felt kind of wasteful. I settled on making a wooden house, to “house” my website. For now, it is not nailed together and can be dis- and reassembled, as Paul said I should be able to trust whoever handles my work when I open-source it; a nod to permacomputing & the whole demo scene.


from top left to bottom right in order:
(playing with the wooden puzzle 1)
(playing with the wooden puzzle 2)
(wooden puzzle work in progress) (I really liked taking pictures and sketching on them on my phone)