• Clickspring - gently narrated master craftsmanship, in this case watchmaking. His Antikythera Mechanism series is particularly awesome
• Adventurous Way - previously RVing content, now building a house in Vermont

That’s probably a typo. From the site:

Currently, the usable performance envelope is approximately 150 bits per second to 40 megabits per second

I’m planning to build a solar powered weather station soon - I feel like that’s a project I could have done in my old apartment and put out on the balcony.

Low-Tech Magazine shows up on here occasionally, I’ve enjoyed their articles.

I’d also recommend Kris Harbour Natural Building on YouTube.

Here’s a critique of another anti-degrowth Jacobin article, and the stance Jacobin seems to take on degrowth in general - https://www.resilience.org/stories/2024-03-04/a-response-to-daniel-driscoll-another-slice-of-degrowth-bashing/

The crux of the argument is

• Planetary boundaries are hard boundaries, so the economy can’t go on growing no matter what. We can either plan this ourselves or be faced with climate disasters planning it for us.
• Degrowth is not “everyone gets less” - no one will disagree with the goal of lifting the global south out of poverty. It means diverting the unnecessary consumption (and carbon budget) of the most wealthy people in the global north to help those who actually need the economic growth.

Now that the roads aren’t icy anymore I’m trying to bike to work more often. Did the trip in the rain for the first time today, and it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be!

Small scale, but I just got a compost bin! My muicipality was selling them for pretty cheap, I’d recommend everyone check if your town has any similar programs

Which recording of the audiobooks? I’ve been enjoying the recent Andy Serkis ones, but I hear great things about the earlier versions as well.

VCV rack is awesome, if not the easiest to start from scratch with. For those who haven’t heard of it, it’s basically a virtual modular analog synthesizer. You can build your own sound generating machines out of a huge selection of modules, including oscillators, filters, sequencers, etc. Some of the modules are based on real hardware modules that you can buy, but there’s a huge variety.

It’s fun to play around with, but if you’re new to modular synthesis then I recommend limiting your module selection to just the built-in ones to start because the full selection is pretty overwhelming if you don’t know a VFO from an ADSR evelope generator.

Reaper is an excellent Digital Audio Workstation with full Linux support