I just completed my first substantial sewing project, using a pattern from this site! My hems aren’t the most even and the neckline was really tricky but I’m pretty happy with it. This is the Sven sweatshirt design, and I used a somewhat heavy knit cotton/polyester fabric. It fits great (as you’d hope!) and will probably become my new winter pajama shirt.

The site is great to use - there are good pictures for how to take each of the measurements you need, and I liked the ability to manually optimize the part layout to minimize the amount of paper it used. I saw a tip on YouTube to piece the pattern together by taping it to a large window or glass door so you can see the overlap between the sheets, and that worked great for me.

My next goal is to do a Simon shirt in flannel - decent step up in complexity so I might do a few other simpler projects first.

FB marketplace may be where I end up - I’ve seen big fluid totes on there when I’ve looked in the past.

I’m curious where you got your rain water containers - I’d like to get something around that size this year.

I’ve been following you for a while on the mainstream socials, super cool to see you here! I love everything you’ve got going on! Good luck with the irrigation system, I’d love to do something similar in the future, and Home Assistant + ESPHome is certainly what I would use to control it.

That’s probably a typo. From the site:

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

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!