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Month: April 2025
Step-by-step guides to growing 20 different herbs
Here’s a list of very easy beginners’ guides to growing a range of herbs, by John Harrison of Allotment Garden.
Why On-Chain Perpetuals Are About to Get Weird (and Useful)
Whoa! Seriously? Perpetuals on chain feel like that late-night diner where the coffee’s strong and the menu keeps changing. I got into this space because somethin’ about decentralized order books and being able to trade 24/7 without a middleman sounded like freedom. At first glance decentralized perpetual trading looks like a straight swap of centralized …
How the commons, unlike other movements for change, can reach working-class communities
We’ll need to produce and distribute food and other essentials, and maintain houses, energy and water infrastructure outside of the corporate system – and that requires working people to do it.
Step-by-step guides to growing 50 different vegetables
I guess an article about growing 50 of the same vegetable wouldn’t have been as interesting! So instead, here’s a list of very easy beginners’ guides to growing a range of vegetables, by John Harrison of Allotment Garden.
The fundamentals of Commoning, Part 1: Introduction
I’m interviewing Dil Green about the fundamentals of commoning. Dil is part of Mutual Credit Services (MCS) – designing models for the commons economy, that groups in Stroud and Liverpool in the UK are using in several sectors of the economy, including housing and finance.
Why Liquid Staking Changed How I Think About ETH — And Why You Should Care
Whoa. This caught me off guard the first time. I was poking around a staking dashboard late one night, curious and a little skeptical. My instinct said: “staking is boring, same old lockups.” But then I saw liquid staking protocols smoothing out that very problem in ways that felt obvious and also kind of brilliant. …