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The Garden

A collection of essays, notes, and half-baked explorations I'm always tending to.

Topics

Talk: The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI

evergreen Noteabout 19 hours ago

Teenage Skeuomorphic Desktop Designs

budding Note4 months ago

Empty Pointers and Constellations of AI

evergreen Note5 months ago

Command K Bars

Pattern6 months ago

Folk Interfaces

Pattern9 months ago

The Block-Paved Path to Structured Data

budding Note12 months ago

Programmable Notes

Patternabout 1 year ago

Spatial Web Browsing

Patternover 1 year ago

Epistemic Disclosure

Patternover 1 year ago

The Finest Narrative Non-Fiction Essays

budding Noteover 1 year ago

Pink, Soft, Glittering Developers

seedling Noteover 1 year ago

The Cultural Anthropology of React

budding Noteover 1 year ago

A Metaphorical Reading Collection

seedling Noteover 1 year ago

New Harvest & Illustrating the Cultivated Meat Podcast

budding Noteover 1 year ago
Paleolithic Nostalgia

Paleolithic Nostalgia

seedling Essayalmost 2 years ago
Digital Gardening for Non-Technical Folks

Digital Gardening for Non-Technical Folks

evergreen Essayalmost 2 years ago

What App is That?

evergreen Noteabout 2 years ago

Problematic Proteins

seedling Noteabout 2 years ago
Meat Planet: The Illustrated Notes

Meat Planet: The Illustrated Notes

evergreen Essayover 2 years ago
Transclusion and Transcopyright Dreams

Transclusion and Transcopyright Dreams

budding Essayover 2 years ago

A History of Cyborgs

budding Noteover 2 years ago

The Bare Essentials of Greensock

budding Noteover 2 years ago

Synecdoche: Drawing the Part for the Whole

seedling Notealmost 3 years ago

The Knowledge Hydrant

seedling Notealmost 3 years ago

What the Fork is React Suspense?

evergreen Notealmost 3 years ago

A Chat with Henry Zhu on OSS & Gift Economies

evergreen Noteabout 3 years ago

A Journey into Vue-Router

evergreen Noteover 3 years ago

JavaScript Bits You Skipped the First Time Around

evergreen Noteover 3 years ago

Speaking the GraphQL Query Language

evergreen Notealmost 4 years ago

The JAMStack, Gatsby & Contentful

evergreen Notealmost 4 years ago
A Shelfish Starter Guide to Databases

A Shelfish Starter Guide to Databases

evergreen Essayabout 4 years ago

A Fruitful Guide to JavaScript's Comparison Operators

evergreen Noteover 4 years ago

What the Fork is the React Virtual DOM

evergreen Noteover 4 years ago

Computational Notebooks

Patternabout 1 month ago

Reverse Outlining with Language Models

budding Note5 months ago

The Dark Forest and the Cozy Web

budding Note6 months ago

A Digital Anthropology Reading List

budding Note7 months ago

Joining Ought

evergreen Note11 months ago

Daily Notes Pages

Patternabout 1 year ago

Interoperable Personal Libraries and Ad Hoc Reading Groups

budding Noteover 1 year ago

Assumed Audiences

Patternover 1 year ago

Algorithmic Transparency

Patternover 1 year ago
The Pattern Language of Project Xanadu

The Pattern Language of Project Xanadu

budding Essayover 1 year ago

The Best Illustration Books and Courses

evergreen Noteover 1 year ago

A Meta-Tour of This Site

budding Noteover 1 year ago

Illustrating Gatsby's Key Concepts

evergreen Noteover 1 year ago

Making Programming Visual, Spatial, and Learnable

budding Noteover 1 year ago

Natureculture, Moral Purity, and Cultural Boundaries

seedling Notealmost 2 years ago

The Echo & Narcissus Writing Club

evergreen Notealmost 2 years ago

The Linear Oppression of Note-taking Apps

seedling Noteabout 2 years ago
How to Draw Invisible Programming Concepts: Part I

How to Draw Invisible Programming Concepts: Part I

evergreen Essayabout 2 years ago

Painting Roam Research with Custom CSS

evergreen Noteover 2 years ago

Are Data Unions the Future of Data?

budding Noteover 2 years ago

GreenSock Animations with React Hooks

budding Noteover 2 years ago
Why You Own an iPad and Still Can't Draw

Why You Own an iPad and Still Can't Draw

budding Essayalmost 3 years ago

How to Become a Neo-Cartesian Cyborg

evergreen Notealmost 3 years ago

A Naive Exploration of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning

budding Notealmost 3 years ago

Visually Workshopping the AWS Cloud

evergreen Notealmost 3 years ago

Defend Your Cookies with Essential Web Security Tactics

evergreen Noteover 3 years ago

What the Fork is Rust?

evergreen Noteover 3 years ago

Building Custom React Hooks

evergreen Noteover 3 years ago
Meet the Robowaiter APIs Serving Us Data

Meet the Robowaiter APIs Serving Us Data

evergreen Essayalmost 4 years ago

Instachatting with Vue & Socket.io

evergreen Noteabout 4 years ago

Testing Apps with Cypress

evergreen Noteabout 4 years ago

What the Fork is Babel?

evergreen Noteover 4 years ago

JavaScript's ...spread Operator

evergreen Noteover 4 years ago

Neologisms

evergreen Noteabout 2 months ago
The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI

The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI

budding Essay5 months ago
Tools for Thought as Cultural Practices, not Computational Objects

Tools for Thought as Cultural Practices, not Computational Objects

budding Essay6 months ago

Programming Portals

Pattern7 months ago

Positioning Elements & Scrollytelling in CSS

budding Note11 months ago

Building a Second Brain: The Illustrated Notes

evergreen Noteabout 1 year ago
Metaphors We Web By

Metaphors We Web By

budding Essayover 1 year ago

The Eponymous Laws of Programming

budding Noteover 1 year ago

Frequently Asked Questions

seedling Noteover 1 year ago

A Picture Worth a Thousand Programmes

evergreen Noteover 1 year ago

Pattern Languages in Programming and Interface Design

seedling Noteover 1 year ago

Tracking Humanity

seedling Noteover 1 year ago
A Brief Introduction to Digital Anthropology

A Brief Introduction to Digital Anthropology

budding Essayover 1 year ago

Plebeian Programming with Keyboard Maestro

seedling Noteover 1 year ago

Tending Evergreen Notes in Roam Research

budding Notealmost 2 years ago
A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden

A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden

evergreen Essayalmost 2 years ago

Douglas, Dirt, and Matter Out of Place

budding Noteabout 2 years ago

Fetishism & Mechanical Keyboards

seedling Noteover 2 years ago
A Short History of Bi-Directional Links

A Short History of Bi-Directional Links

evergreen Essayover 2 years ago
Organic, Local, Artisan Data Storage

Organic, Local, Artisan Data Storage

budding Essayover 2 years ago

Drawing the Invisible: React Explained in Five Visual Metaphors

budding Noteover 2 years ago

The Gift Economy

budding Notealmost 3 years ago

Growing the Evergreens

evergreen Notealmost 3 years ago

Silent Synchronous Reading Sessions

seedling Notealmost 3 years ago

Fixing Common Git Mistakes

evergreen Noteabout 3 years ago

What the Fork is xState?

evergreen Noteover 3 years ago

The Art and Craft of Gatsby Themes

evergreen Noteover 3 years ago

Immutable Data with Immer and Personal Assistant Bots

evergreen Notealmost 4 years ago

A Fresh Serving of JavaScript ES2019

evergreen Notealmost 4 years ago

Building VR Apps with React360

evergreen Noteabout 4 years ago

How Are Compilers & Transpilers Different?

evergreen Noteabout 4 years ago

JSX is a Lovechild

evergreen Noteover 4 years ago