What is a digital garden?
A digital garden is a methodology for publishing ideas to the web, no matter how incomplete the thought may be. A piece of content or an idea in a digital garden might forever remain just a simple note, or it may one day expand and become a full-fledged essay.
How is this garden structured?
Content here is bucketed according to the menu on your left. I tend to this area semi-regularly with seeds of random thoughts. Essays will probably be the result of notes I simply cannot let go of!
Other gardens worth scrolling through:
Notes
2025
2025-10-21
I want to build a browser-baesd idle game. Going to work on that for a bit.
2025-03-17
If this were a real garden, it would be a dry mess! Vowing to add more in 2025.
2024
2024-09-20
From Robin Sloan's blog—I enjoy the idea of "home-cooked software." Software you build that's not meant for $-making, but meant for solving a hyper-local problem in your life. Imagine the provacative phrase "learn to code" was read and thought of as "learn to cook." Not so you can become a Michelin star chef, but so that you can make yourself an incredible home-cooked meal.
2024-09-15
AI-generated art for solo creators/web artisans is still fun to look at, but there's something increasingly off-putting about large, recognizable brands using AI art for their landing pages, marketing materials, etc.
2024-09-03
"Billionaire joyride" critiques of space exploration say more about the ambition (and ignorance) levels of the critiquer than they do about the merits of space travel. How have we fallen so far out of love with space?
2024-08-22
We need to bring back surfing the web. More messy personal websites, blogs, and digital gardens. This is how we fight the LLM-generated glut of internet content
2024-05-11
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a striking physical-world analogy for the templatized, sterile, waste "content" that is accumulating on the web. Think cookie-cutter LinkedIn posts, the wall of ads you see when you Google something, etc.
2024-02-12
Bitcoin private keys can always be made hot. But once made hot, they can never be made cold again. The second(?) law of private key thermodynamics
Essays
If you squint, I'm sure you'll see a blog post somewhere. I would really love to cover all of the technical hurdles I've faced in crafting my ssh bookstore, Palatial.
