There is a small internet community I participate in called tilde.town.

One of the more active members of that community has organized a group project-doing project called "tilde30".

I am participating in that project! I meant to write this up a week ago but didn't, so I'm doing it now.

In case you didn't click the link to read the full description of tilde30, here's a brief summary:

• everyone participating comes up with a project
• the project should be roughly organized around 4 weekly milestones
• on June 1 we shared our project plan with everyone on tilde.town
• on June 8, June 15, June 22, and June 30 we share updates with the group
• we commit (to ourselves and others in the group) to carving out daily time to work on the project

Below is the plan as I announced it to the group on tilde.town. I'll be posting on this blog with my weekly updates and updating this post to add links to each milestone post.

my tilde30 project plan

Ideas I've had have included:

• writing blog posts for waynr.net
• working on my d2 (diagramming language) parser
• learning more shaders and working on my shader runner

the plan

while all of the above ideas have their own appeal and i'd like to get to them eventually, something i've been thinking about and wanting to do for a while is to plan some outdoor home improvement projects.

there are a few things that i want to combine into a larger plan:

• getting rid of a bunch of old building material
• tearing up about half of the concrete driveway in front of the house
• installing a carport in front of my garage
  • will require detailed planning for the sake of pulling a permit
• tearing out the carport that's currently in front of the house
• put together a phased xeriscaping plan

So the milestones for this project will be:

m1 - assemble the larger plan

• this will put all the things i want to do in order with a very rough timeline
• details will come later
• i'll probably start working on m2 before m1 is due

m2 - create a xeriscape design SVG

• this SVG will be scaled to my property
• concrete, permanent buildings/features, and existing plants will be clearly marked
• the SVG will include layers for each successive phase of the larger plan

m3 - research costs & permitting; put together detailed plan

• i think the only thing that will require an actual permit is the new car port
• will need a cost estimate including:
  • new tools
  • materials
    • gutters, rain barrels
    • plants
    • stone mulch
  • services like dumpster rental
  • any paid contractors
• research what to do with old groady landscaping material

m4 - initiate first committed steps

• file permit with city
• order new carport & any tools necessary to install it
• buy/borrow cutting torch to disassemble old carport in middle of yard
• rent dumpster to begin getting rid of old building material

• tilde30 milestone 2
  june 2024 tilde30
• tilde30 milestone 1
  june 2024 tilde30