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Doug Webb's site Home Projects Slides Posts Month number mnemonics 11th Aug 2026 I somehow never managed to really memorise the month numbers. January, February, November and December are fine, but the others, especially June and July, would force me to count up from January — often with my fingers. The Internet surfaced a whole bunch of mnemonics for the days in each month, including the amazing…
Doug Webb's site Home Projects Slides Posts Position Statecharts 5th Jul 2026 — Version 1.0.0 Abstract The power and responsibility one has in a situation is formalised by one's position within it; positions and the ways of entering/exiting them — position systems — are thus a foundational governance concern. Constitutional ambiguities may remain hidden and newcomer empowerment may be obstructed…
Doug Webb's site Home Projects Slides Posts A8 micronotepad 20th Dec 2022 If you've met me in the last years, there's a good chance you've seen me whip out a tiny notepad at some point to write something down. This notepad is pretty much two bank cards, with a bit of duct tape as a 'spine' and an elastic band to keep the paper in. This design came out of a need to have a completely portable way to…
Doug Webb's site Home Projects Slides Posts Custom is consent 16th Dec 2022 I used to think that customs were bad. Unwritten, unspoken rules, only there to separate the uninitiated from the elders. I've made a U-turn—with caveats. Customs are perhaps the freest expression of self-organization. Like the stigmergy of ants, who in following the pheromone trail laid by previous ants, form orderly…
Doug Webb's site Home Projects Slides Posts Contribute upstream 11th Jul 2022 I've been getting more into editing Wikipedia. Despite all of its shortcomings, it is the encyclopedia; you can be sure a thing really exists if there's a Wikipedia page of it. What motivated me was the topic that's been motivating me for years: collective organization. But rather than writing yet another opinionated,…
Doug Webb's site Home Projects Slides Posts Borg backups 17th Mar 2020 2024-08-21 update: I now use and recommend Vorta , a GUI for borg which I mention later Long overdue a proper backup setup, prompted by a housemate's presentation on the topic, I decided to give Borg a bash. Until now I've been periodically/sporadically backing up my home folder to an external harddrive with rsync : rsync -r -t…
Doug Webb's site Home Projects Slides Posts Talk: Post-consensus, cooperative decision-making 10th Jul 2018 What should we do when consensus can't be reached? What if cooperative decision-making is better achieved in such cases with practices other than "reaching consensus"? For decades people wishing to organize in more cooperative ways have been encouraged to make decisions by consensus, and for…
Doug Webb's site Home Projects Slides Posts Talk: Introducing Kanthaus 4th Dec 2017 Two shabby buildings in a German town you've probably never heard of before have become home for a group of post-waste activists: we call it Kanthaus . Located within the mesh of global challenges is the fact that 1/3 of edible food isn't eaten. The issue of waste is a focal point for our project, inherited from…