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Economy

Democratise our economy

Here is a very interesting concept, practiced for 100’s of years in many stable small communities that learned how to collaborate as individuals in a group:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/commentisfree/2026/feb/12/capitalist-model-climate-growth-capitalism-species-humanity

by Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis

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Coding

Git Subproject – an alternative to git Submodules and git Subtrees

Share code between projects with full control, without the complexity

Want to see the code now? git-sub-project

Git submodules: everyone forgets --recurse-submodules, detached HEAD nightmares, remote dependencies that break your build.

Git subtrees: merged history spaghetti, painful to push changes back, impossible to tell what came from where.

I needed something simpler. I wanted to work on shared code directly in my projects without weird relative path imports in deno.json or messing with npm link. Then I found a Git feature almost nobody talks about.

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Agriculture

Arguments in defence of traditional and historical irrigation systems

I found these nice posters and leaflets about the importance of having comunal ownership if natural resources in the environment you live in. Available in 4 languages.

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Agriculture

El libro de agricultura de Al Awan. Volumen I y II.

If you are wondering how the Moors were growing their food in the past this is the book you want to read.

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Agriculture

Manual del Acequiero

Just in case you would like to know how to build the traditional water channels in the mountains you can find here in the mountain you need to read this book.

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Economy

The Economics of Happiness

Always worth a watch if you have not seen it.

The Economics of Happiness
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Building

Earth Quake Resistant Building

I am still building my house, it’s been epic.

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Economy

Small Is Beautiful

Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered” by Ernst Friedrich Schumacher (16 August 1911 – 4 September 1977) is a book on how the development of economics should empower people and communities.

In 1995 The Times Literary Supplement ranked Small Is Beautiful among the 100 most influential books published since 1945.