First up, degrowth is a bad name. I agree with the sentiment expressed but past this post I will never sign on to anything called “Degrowth” and neither should you. The name is already boxed in and the opposition handed free marketing. Viability is what we are after; to survive and live successfully. Do we need to grow our level of consumption to survive? No. If you live in the majority of the western world you do not. Read more...

A deep dive into the wonderful land of windows and widgets has led me through the architectures of Oberon, Plan9, NeWS, Arcan, Fresco, Genode, etc.. Without going deep into the specifics of each one, not in this post at least, I wanted to talk abstractly about what all these systems have in common. Let’s briefly talk about each one and we can begin with the most well known system out of the lot, Plan9, and of course the most well known part being the “everything is a file” concept. Read more...