https://forterra.org/our-work/programs/green-city-partnershi...

Something something budgets, liability, approvals, blah blah blah.

Like everywhere else (in this habitat zone), we have acres of just blackberry. They even choke out the scotts broom and butterfly bushes. There's no way us volunteer crews are going to get ahead of all that.

What I'm doing is creative, strategic, public relations. In our 80 acre park, we choose spots based on impact and visibility. Just like Tom Sawyer painting the white picket fence.

Our first year, I got lots of skepticism, negative comments. A few years later, the park regulars (aka voters) have seen results and progress. It cheers people up. And we're getting all sorts of ad hoc support, donations, etc.

Over time, I have to believe, we'll win over enough support to actually compel the host city to honor their tree conservation and restoration commitments. (They're still losing canopy cover faster than its being replaced.)

Reforesting (rewilding) is farming and gardening. Proactive ecological management. Per "You broke it, you bought it." We are recreating forests. In my area, we have to restart the forest life cycle. The correct plants in the correct order in the correct habitat. If we leave it to "nature", the blackberries and alder would choke off everything else.

Plus, there's ever more evidence that humans have long reshaped (managed) ecosystems. Like the controlled burns the indigeous people of America did. On a contintal scale!

Terrific share, thanks. Will binge soonest.

My impression is they work well enough for flowers. I have no idea about shrubs or ground cover.

I'm aware there's some efforts to seed bomb trees. There was one such experiment in Discovery Park Seattle WA. I chatted with some people from WSU, Tacoma Tree Project, or something like that. That particular experiment tried using drones over a small plot. None of the seeds sprouted. (Sorry, I don't have more details.)

This was adjacent to some other experiments. eg Tacoma Tree Project & WSU are investigating why native redcedars are now perishing faster, and maybe find ways to mitigate the loss. I think there's about a dozen research plots scattered around the Puget Sound.

I don't spend much time following forest restoration "news". But I do know that it's a nascent industry that'll become huge.

I've been wondering how we might build a community of urban forest hackers. To share tips and info, how to deal with vandals, help each other make yard signs, how to transport water over trail, etc.

I would love to know better ways for breaking up a parking lot.

I opened up 4 separate spaces for tree planters. I started with pickaxe and pry rod (nicknamed The Persuader by its owner). That's real work. Next, I borrowed a Makita rotary hammer from our local tool library. Very helpful!

My "boss" has a protocol to improve plant survival and reduce labor: pile up 10" - 12" of mulch. If my trees survive this summer I'll be very happy.

So, my boss's teams use the "too much mulch" hack, to great success.

But her innovation is slow to spread. Because our teams only meet yearly (some of us do float around to other job sites, which is great). But we have no contact with other teams, other cities, other regions. And seeing is believing. (I too was very skeptical and reluctant to schlep that much more mulch.)

And I'm sure someone somewhere has some labor saving hacks for tackling Himalayan blackberry. Once removed, my boss's hack is to use pinebark to prevent their return. Works great! (Another innovation slow to spread.) But oh boy removing invasives like blackberries, english ivy, scotch broom, etc currently requires a lot of labor.

(I know about super steam lances. Notion is to cook root balls from the inside out. I'm still trying to find a unit to experiment with. I heard there's one in Oregon, that I might go visit.)

Much better than my draft glib response: founders of FIRE punch down and suck up.

Aha! Author is a guest columnist. I wonder if FIRE will repeat that mistake.

The negative consequences of JavaScript rival both \0x00 terminated strings and NULL.

I've never forgiven Brendan Eich or Marc Andreessen.

More positively, Marc did name the HTML's image tag IMG. Maybe by some cosmic measure, his contributions balance out.

Crichton's Law: unwittingly serving as the best example of one's own snarky law.

FWIW, here's screenshot of same code snippet using both original and mimic.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ahatem/IoskeleyMono/refs/h...

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ahatem/IoskeleyMono/refs/h...

Creating such a close match impresses me. Many times, I'll like parts of a font, but can't abide by the line spacing, heights, widths, weights, or whatever.

The ability to more precisely "tune" a typeface would be neat.

https://www.forbo.com/flooring/en-us/commercial-products/lin...

If fossil carbon ever becomes (commercially) scarce, vinyl might end up the premium choice.

I predict plank will always suck.

This discussion covers the basics, reform efforts in Spokane WA, and what led Spokane to this point. Very meaty discussion.

TIL: LVT shifts tax burden from home owners to land speculators, encourages development and renovations, will be revenue neutral, and compliments other urbanism reforms. Plus a lot more.

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Do you mean GUI, keyboard shortcuts, search dialogs, all the above?

I'm frustrated with (find and) search. So many options. It's both too much and too little.

But what would something better look like? Spotlight (Alfred, Raycast)? fff (fast fuzzy finder)?

I'm hoping I'll know it when I see it.

Ya, in that case, IMHO, self QA can be fine.

Customer facing products (deliverables) need QA/Test. Again, IMHO.