Sunshine and Seedlings: A Newsletter by HydroponicTrash

Cyberdecks, Going Analog, Permacomputing, Medieval Guilds, and the Arts and Crafts Movement

People are moving away from corporate controlled tech, and making their own. How the designs of cyberdecks are being driven by women. And how medieval…

Apr 8 • HydroponicTrash

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March 2026

Sunshine and Seedlings is Leaving Substack!

Self hosting, why I'm leaving Substack, and where things go from here.

Mar 23 • HydroponicTrash

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August 2025

Our Resistance Will Become Our Persistence

Like fungi, we will decompose the rot around us to create something new. On mycelium, permacomputing, and the fractals of a greater pattern.

Aug 15, 2025 • HydroponicTrash

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November 2024

Fighting For Liberation in the Face of Fascism

They tried to bury us, but little did they know - we were seeds.

Nov 15, 2024 • HydroponicTrash

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January 2024

Building Autonomous, Off-Grid, Encrypted, and Solar Powered Communications Infrastructure

A guide on building autonomous communication networks with LoRa that work without wider communications infrastructure. Combining techniques for…

Jan 10, 2024 • HydroponicTrash

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August 2023

Federated Ecovillages & Steps Towards a Modern Cybersyn

Thoughts on how we can create federated and interconnected ecovillages, create networks of semi nomadic housing, and use technology to help us make it…

Aug 4, 2023 • HydroponicTrash

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May 2023

The Future Looks Green: Hemp, Algae, and Ideas for Ecovillages and Cooperative Life

How plants can make medicine, food, bricks, clothes, fuel, compost and more all while sequestering carbon and how we can collectively work towards…

May 30, 2023 • HydroponicTrash

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Appropriate Technology, Permacomputing, Post Growth, and Ecomodernism.

To adapt to the changing climate, we need to radically rethink how and why we do the things we do. From technology, to social movements, to economics…

May 25, 2023 • HydroponicTrash

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Design Fiction: Hapticore VR

An exercise in design fiction, creating fictional products and objects for a speculative world. A mega-corporation creates a VR headset, and an…

May 2, 2023 • HydroponicTrash

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April 2023

The Good Life: Buen Vivir, Hygge, Solarpunk & Degrowth.

How the intersections of these ideas might show us how a good life might feel in a postcapitalist, ecological, and equal future.

Apr 6, 2023 • HydroponicTrash

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March 2023

Reviving Chromebooks with Ubuntu: Autonomous Servers, Planned Obsolescence, and Permacomputing

A tutorial and slight manifesto on reviving end-of-life Chromebooks. How to make them into autonomous servers, and why we need to rethink computing in…

Mar 24, 2023 • HydroponicTrash

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February 2023

Social Ecology & Solarpunk: The aesthetics of radical change

Part of a series of responses while taking a course by the Institute for Social Ecology: "Solarpunk, Art, and Social Ecological Aesthetics".

Feb 4, 2023 • HydroponicTrash

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