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Awesome Permacomputing

A curation of resources, projects, and communities related to permacomputing.

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General

Permacomputing

is both a concept and a community of practice oriented around issues of resilience and regenerativity in computer and network technology inspired by permaculture.

Resources >Websites

Permacomputing

A wiki for permacomputing.

Low-tech Magazine

Articles about solving human problems with low-tech solutions.

Monoskop

A wiki for arts and studies.

Damaged Earth Catalog

A growing online catalog of the different terms in circulation.

XXIIVV

Ideas and notes on technology, art, language, and philosophy.

The Luddite

A skeptical look at technology and its impact on society.

Frugal Computing

Ideas and notes on frugal computing.

Modding Fridays

A wiki about maintenance, repurposing, and reappropriation of supposedly obsolete electronics.

No tech Magazine

Low-tech Magazine's sister blog, it emphasizes simple technologies over high-tech, resource-intensive ones.

Simplifier

Practical, low-tech guides and resources to simplify daily life.

Death to Bullshit

Critiques the clutter and misleading tactics common in digital experiences.

Do the Math

Explores the physical limits of growth in energy consumption and technological progress.

Branch Magazine

Articles about climate justice and internet sustainability.

Pluralistic

Explores technology, digital rights, and societal issues.

Resources >Articles

Permacomputing

Ville-Matias Heikkilä, 2020.

A holistic approach to computing and sustainability inspired from permaculture

Devine Lu Linvega, 2021.

Permacomputing Aesthetics: Potential and Limits of Constraints in Computational Art, Design and Culture

Aymeric Mansoux, Brendan Howell, Dušan Barok, and Ville-Matias Heikkilä, 2023.

Permacomputing and the Dance of Repair Amid the Vestiges of Digital Obsolescence

Nancy Mauro-Flude, 2023.

The Oceanic provenance of Permacomputing and Computational poetics

Nancy Mauro-Flude, 2024.

The Beauty of Finished Software

Jose M. Gilgado, 2023.

What might degrowth computing look like?

Neil Selwyn, 2022.

Low Fat Computing

Jeff Fox, 1998.

What can a technologist do about climate change?

Bret Victor, 2015.

The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud

Steven Gonzalez Monserrate, 2022.

It's Not Easy Being Green: On the Energy Efficiency of Programming Languages

Nicolas van Kempen, Hyuk-Je Kwon, Dung Tuan Nguyen, and Emery D. Berger, 2024.

The biggest lie tech people tell themselves — and the rest of us

Rose Eveleth, 2019.

Hype, Sustainability, and the Price of the Bigger-is-Better Paradigm in AI

Gaël Varoquaux, Alexandra Sasha Luccioni, and Meredith Whittaker, 2024.

Redefining our needs: permacomputing and vernacular computing

Robert Engels, 2022.

Resources >Books

The Dispossessed

Ursula K. Le Guin, 1974.

The Fifth Sacred Thing

Starhawk, 1993.

The Art of Unix Programming

Eric S. Raymond, 2003.

In 2 lists

The Limits to Growth

Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jørgen Randers, and William W. Behrens III, 1972.

Resources >Visual

Dependency

Xkcd, 2020.

Energy Slaves

Stuart McMillen, 2017.

The Solar Grid

Ganzeer, 2016.

Resources >Audiovisual

Neptune Frost

Anisia Uzeyman and Saul Williams, 2021.

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

Hayao Miyazaki, 1984.

Death by Design

Sue Williams, 2016.

The Social Dilemma

Jeff Orlowski-Yang, 2020.

Surviving Progress

Mathieu Roy and Harold Crooks, 2011.

Low-Tech

Adrien Bellay, 2023.

An Approach to Computing and Sustainability Inspired from Permaculture

Devine Lu Linvega, 2023.

From appropriate technology to permacomputing: a glossary of counternarratives and practices

Marloes de Valk, 2022.

Preventing the Collapse of Civilization

Jonathan Blow, 2019.

Projects >Software

Collapse OS

Forth-based operating system designed for post-collapse scenarios.

Tiny Core Linux

Small, highly modular system with community build extensions.

Alpine Linux

Secure, lightweight Linux distribution.

In 4 listsDetails

Plan 9

Compact and uniform operating system built as a successor to Unix.

Vim

Highly efficient, customisable, and lightweight text editor.

In 11 listsDetails

Micro

Lightweight, intuitive terminal-based text editor.

In 4 listsDetails

Geany

Small, lightweight IDE suitable for basic coding needs.

In 8 listsDetails

Nano

A lightweight, terminal-based text editor for Unix-like systems.

In 6 listsDetails

Left

Graphical text editor for the Uxn virtual machine. 18kb.

Suckless

A collection of ultra-minimalist tools focused on simplicity, clarity and frugality.

TLP

Linux power management tool to extend battery life.

Hugo

Open-source static website generator.

In 8 listsDetails

twtxt

A decentralised, minimalist microblogging platform built on a text-based protocol.

sqlite

Small, reliable SQL database engine.

In 7 listsDetails

Argos Translate

An open-source translation tool that runs offline.

NoScript

An open-source browser extension that allows JavaScript to be executed only on trusted websites of your choice.

In 2 lists

CO2.js

A JavaScript library for estimating the carbon emissions associated with software.

Tauri

A framework for building lightweight, native desktop applications with web technologies.

In 3 lists

XFE

A simple and efficient file manager.

Festival

A lightweight music player designed for local album collections.

In 2 lists

FOX

A portable C++ based toolkit for building GUIs.

Zola

A fast static site generator in a single binary.

In 3 lists

Uxn

A portability layer for graphical applications.

Gemini

Minimalist, text-based internet protocol.

In 2 lists

Tor

A privacy-focused, decentralised network protocol.

In 14 listsDetails

Dat Ecosystem

A peer-to-peer protocol and tools for decentralised data sharing.

IPFS

Peer-to-peer file storage and sharing protocol.

In 2 lists

Meshtastic

Open-source mesh networking protocol designed for off-grid communication.

In 3 lists

Dillo

A multi-platform graphical web browser, focused on speed and minimal resource usage.

w3m

Text-based web browser for low-resource environments.

Lagrange

A minimal, open-source browser designed for browsing Geminispace.

DuckDuckGo Lite

A minimal version of the DuckDuckGo search engine.

Mojeek

Independent, privacy-focused search engine.

In 4 listsDetails

Scuttlebutt

A decentralised, low-bandwidth social network that works offline and is powered by a peer-to-peer gossip protocol.

In 2 lists

Lemmy

A federated, open-source social platform for creating and joining communities.

In 6 listsDetails

Piped

An open-source alternative frontend for YouTube which is efficient by design.

In 3 lists

Mastodon

A decentralised, open-source microblogging community.

In 4 listsDetails

Projects >Hardware

OLinuXino

Single-board computers based on open-source hardware.

Framework

Customisable, repairable laptops.

Fairphone

Repairable smartphones made with responsibly sourced materials.

In 2 lists

pine64

Devices based on open-source hardware.

Green Arrays

Low power computation platforms.

RC2014

A simple 8 bit Z80 based modular computer.

SHIFT

Modular devices designed for repairability.

iFixit

Step-by-step guides for repairing various devices.

Repair Café

Free meeting places for repairing things together.

The Restart Project

Repair education, repair events, and advocacy for the right to repair.

Unbinare

An e-waste reverse engineering lab.

Projects >Experimental

Solar Protocol

Decentralised, solar-powered internet infrastructure.

Permacomputing as a practice

Integrates permacomputing principles into graphic design processes.

Reclaimed Systems

Conducts research on ethical and sustainable technology, particularly in AI's societal and ecological impacts.

Designlife-cycle.com

Explores the life cycle, materials, energy use, and sustainability challenges of everyday design products.

Communities >Collectives

Computing within Limits

An annual workshop concerning the role of computing in human societies affected by real-world limits.

Freifunk

Decentralised, non-profit wireless community network in Germany.

Right to Repair

Advocates for products to be designed for repairability and for universal access to the necessary spare parts, tools, and repair manuals.

In 2 lists

Green Software Foundation

An ecosystem of people, standards, tooling and best practices for building green software.

ClimateAction.tech

A slack-based tech community to meet, discuss, and learn about climate action.

In 2 lists

Electronics < > Ecologies

A workshop series providing strategic research outcomes and specialised training in sustainable electronics design and hardware studies.

LURK

Hosts discussions on decentralised, sustainable computing and new digital environments.

Sustainable Web Manifesto

Advocates for sustainable design principles in the web industry.

The Green Web Foundation

An independent non-profit that tracks how much of the internet is powered by green energy.

Varia

Rotterdam-based community focusing on collective approaches to sustainable technology.

Small File Media Festival

A film festival in Canada, focused on short films with file sizes less than five megabytes.

Demoscene

Old-school programming artistry using limited system resources to produce stunning visuals and sounds.

Pixel Joint

Community for artists making low-resolution, low-power pixel art.

LOWREZJAM

A game jam where participants create games with a maximum resolution of 64x64 pixels.

Data Garden

A series of bio-reactive installations that transform natural phenomena into music-generating data.

Fiber Space

Events and workshops exploring permacomputing in creative and digital arts.

Small File Photo Festival

A mini festival encouraging and celebrating small size photography.

Tiny Code Christmas

A yearly jam on low-level graphics programming.

Watt-Wise Game Jam

A challenge to build low-energy games.

digicam.love

Promotes photography taken with old digital cameras.

Communities >Forums

Permacomputing on the SLRPNK Lemmy instance

Permacomputing on the SDF Chatter Lemmy instance

Lobsters

A technology-focused community centered around link aggregation and discussion

In 5 listsDetails
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Awesome OpenClaw Skills

VoltAgent/awesome-openclaw-skills

The awesome collection of OpenClaw skills. 5,400+ skills filtered and categorized from the official OpenClaw Skills Registry.🦞

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Awesome DeepSeek Harness (DSH) Plugin

awesome-dsh-plugin/awesome-dsh-plugin

A curated list of plugins for DeepSeek Harness (dsh) · DeepSeek Harness 插件精选列表

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Awesome Guidelines

Kristories/awesome-guidelines

Programming style, best practices, and coding conventions.

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Awesome

sindresorhus/awesome

😎 Awesome lists about all kinds of interesting topics [NOTE: Pull requests are temporarily disabled until I have a chance to catch up with the existing ones]

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Awesome Prompts

ai-boost/awesome-prompts

Curated list of chatgpt prompts from the top-rated GPTs in the GPTs Store. Prompt Engineering, prompt attack & prompt protect. Advanced Prompt Engineering papers.

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Awesome README

matiassingers/awesome-readme

A curated list of awesome READMEs

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