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The Garden
A collection of essays, notes, and half-baked explorations I'm always tending to.
Topics
Aesthetic Command Lines with Hyper, Spaceship, and Oh My Zsh
evergreen Note11 days ago
Talk: The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI
evergreen Note5 months ago
The Finest Narrative Non-Fiction Essays
budding Note6 months ago
Gathering Structures
budding Note8 months ago
Historical Trails
Pattern10 months ago
Language Model Sketchbook, or Why I Hate Chatbots
budding Noteover 1 year ago
Teenage Skeuomorphic Desktop Designs
budding Noteover 1 year ago
Empty Pointers and Constellations of AI
evergreen Notealmost 2 years ago
Command K Bars
Patternalmost 2 years ago
Folk Interfaces
Patternabout 2 years ago
The Block-Paved Path to Structured Data
budding Noteover 2 years ago
Programmable Notes
Patternover 2 years ago
Spatial Web Browsing
Patternover 2 years ago
Epistemic Disclosure
Patternalmost 3 years ago
The Pattern Language of Project Xanadu
budding Essayalmost 3 years ago
The Best Illustration Books and Courses
evergreen Notealmost 3 years ago
A Meta-Tour of This Site
budding Notealmost 3 years ago
Illustrating Gatsby's Key Concepts
evergreen Noteabout 3 years ago
Making Programming Visual, Spatial, and Learnable
budding Noteabout 3 years ago
Natureculture, Moral Purity, and Cultural Boundaries
seedling Noteabout 3 years ago
The Echo & Narcissus Writing Club
evergreen Noteover 3 years ago
The Linear Oppression of Note-taking Apps
seedling Noteover 3 years ago
How to Draw Invisible Programming Concepts: Part I
evergreen Essayover 3 years ago
Painting Roam Research with Custom CSS
evergreen Noteover 3 years ago
Are Data Unions the Future of Data?
budding Notealmost 4 years ago
GreenSock Animations with React Hooks
budding Noteabout 4 years ago
The Gift Economy
budding Noteabout 4 years ago
Growing the Evergreens
evergreen Noteover 4 years ago
Silent Synchronous Reading Sessions
seedling Noteover 4 years ago
Fixing Common Git Mistakes
evergreen Noteover 4 years ago
What the Fork is xState?
evergreen Noteover 4 years ago
The Art and Craft of Gatsby Themes
evergreen Notealmost 5 years ago
Immutable Data with Immer and Personal Assistant Bots
evergreen Noteabout 5 years ago
A Fresh Serving of JavaScript ES2019
evergreen Noteover 5 years ago
Building VR Apps with React360
evergreen Noteover 5 years ago
How Are Compilers & Transpilers Different?
evergreen Noteover 5 years ago
JSX is a Lovechild
evergreen Noteover 5 years ago
Leaving Elicit
evergreen Note3 months ago
Faking William Morris, Generative Forgery, and the Erosion of Art History
budding Note5 months ago
Spinning Worlds, Seasickness, and Dealing with Vestibular Neuritis
budding Note7 months ago
Speculative Calendar Events
budding Note9 months ago
Why You Own an iPad and Still Can't Draw
budding Essay10 months ago
Computational Notebooks
Patternover 1 year ago
Reverse Outlining with Language Models
budding Notealmost 2 years ago
The Dark Forest and the Cozy Web
budding Notealmost 2 years ago
A Digital Anthropology Reading List
budding Notealmost 2 years ago
Joining Ought
evergreen Noteover 2 years ago
Daily Notes Pages
Patternover 2 years ago
Interoperable Personal Libraries and Ad Hoc Reading Groups
budding Noteover 2 years ago
Assumed Audiences
Patternalmost 3 years ago
Algorithmic Transparency
Patternalmost 3 years ago
A Picture Worth a Thousand Programmes
evergreen Notealmost 3 years ago
Pattern Languages in Programming and Interface Design
seedling Notealmost 3 years ago
Tracking Humanity
seedling Noteabout 3 years ago
A Brief Introduction to Digital Anthropology
budding Essayabout 3 years ago
Plebeian Programming with Keyboard Maestro
seedling Noteabout 3 years ago
Tending Evergreen Notes in Roam Research
budding Noteover 3 years ago
A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden
evergreen Essayover 3 years ago
Douglas, Dirt, and Matter Out of Place
budding Noteover 3 years ago
Fetishism & Mechanical Keyboards
seedling Noteover 3 years ago
A Short History of Bi-Directional Links
evergreen Essayover 3 years ago
Organic, Local, Artisan Data Storage
budding Essayalmost 4 years ago
Drawing the Invisible: React Explained in Five Visual Metaphors
budding Noteabout 4 years ago
Synecdoche: Drawing the Part for the Whole
seedling Noteabout 4 years ago
The Knowledge Hydrant
seedling Noteover 4 years ago
What the Fork is React Suspense?
evergreen Noteover 4 years ago
A Chat with Henry Zhu on OSS & Gift Economies
evergreen Noteover 4 years ago
A Journey into Vue-Router
evergreen Noteover 4 years ago
JavaScript Bits You Skipped the First Time Around
evergreen Notealmost 5 years ago
Speaking the GraphQL Query Language
evergreen Noteabout 5 years ago
The JAMStack, Gatsby & Contentful
evergreen Noteover 5 years ago
A Shelfish Starter Guide to Databases
evergreen Essayover 5 years ago
A Fruitful Guide to JavaScript's Comparison Operators
evergreen Noteover 5 years ago
What the Fork is the React Virtual DOM
evergreen Noteover 5 years ago
Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers
budding Note3 months ago
On Opening Essays, Conference Talks, and Jam Jars
budding Note6 months ago
A Collection of Design Engineers
budding Note7 months ago
Ambient Co-presence
Pattern10 months ago
Squish Meets Structure: Designing with Language Models
evergreen Noteabout 1 year ago
Neologisms
evergreen Noteover 1 year ago
The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI
budding Essayalmost 2 years ago
Tools for Thought as Cultural Practices, not Computational Objects
budding Essayalmost 2 years ago
Programming Portals
Patternalmost 2 years ago
Positioning Elements & Scrollytelling in CSS
budding Noteover 2 years ago
Building a Second Brain: The Illustrated Notes
evergreen Noteover 2 years ago
Metaphors We Web By
budding Essayover 2 years ago
The Eponymous Laws of Programming
budding Notealmost 3 years ago
Frequently Asked Questions
seedling Notealmost 3 years ago
Pink, Soft, Glittering Developers
seedling Notealmost 3 years ago
The Cultural Anthropology of React
budding Notealmost 3 years ago
A Metaphorical Reading Collection
seedling Noteabout 3 years ago
New Harvest & Illustrating the Cultivated Meat Podcast
budding Noteabout 3 years ago
Paleolithic Nostalgia
seedling Essayabout 3 years ago
Digital Gardening for Non-Technical Folks
evergreen Essayover 3 years ago
What App is That?
evergreen Noteover 3 years ago
Problematic Proteins
seedling Noteover 3 years ago
Meat Planet: The Illustrated Notes
evergreen Essayover 3 years ago
Transclusion and Transcopyright Dreams
budding Essayover 3 years ago
A History of Cyborgs
budding Notealmost 4 years ago
The Bare Essentials of Greensock
budding Noteabout 4 years ago
How to Become a Neo-Cartesian Cyborg
evergreen Noteover 4 years ago
A Naive Exploration of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning
budding Noteover 4 years ago
Visually Workshopping the AWS Cloud
evergreen Noteover 4 years ago
Defend Your Cookies with Essential Web Security Tactics
evergreen Noteover 4 years ago
What the Fork is Rust?
evergreen Notealmost 5 years ago
Building Custom React Hooks
evergreen Notealmost 5 years ago
Meet the Robowaiter APIs Serving Us Data
evergreen Essayover 5 years ago
Instachatting with Vue & Socket.io
evergreen Noteover 5 years ago
Testing Apps with Cypress
evergreen Noteover 5 years ago
What the Fork is Babel?
evergreen Noteover 5 years ago
JavaScript's ...spread Operator
evergreen Noteover 5 years ago