Notes and links from 17 Aug

Taking things a bit easier today, after the crash. Pottering around the house and looking the Eleventy docs right from the beginning (rather than trying to reverse engineer). This was helpful. One of the things we did yesterday that I forgot to mention was chop up a parachute. Last year someone offered most of a parachute on my sister’s street chat. It’s the real deal, ex-army designed for dropping vehicles from planes (apparently), and quite large. She took it and then realised she had a massive parachute, so offered it to me. I took it with the idea of using it to cover the geodesic dome, which it easily did but to no useful purpose. We don’t want the dome to be completely covered and dark inside. So I had most of a parachute and no real use for it. I offered it around to some of the usual suspects with no joy and eventually Fi found a sewing group who could use the material. And then I found a use for it. During the heatwaves we’ve been hanging out old sail shade over the rabbit’s…