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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 Noteabout 16 hours 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

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

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 Noteover 3 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

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 Noteover 1 year 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 Noteabout 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

Patternover 2 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 Notealmost 3 years ago
A Brief Introduction to Digital Anthropology

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 Noteabout 3 years ago
A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden

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

A Short History of Bi-Directional Links

evergreen Essayover 3 years ago
Organic, Local, Artisan Data Storage

Organic, Local, Artisan Data Storage

budding Essayover 3 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

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

Pattern9 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

The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI

budding Essayalmost 2 years ago
Tools for Thought as Cultural Practices, not Computational Objects

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 Noteabout 2 years ago

Building a Second Brain: The Illustrated Notes

evergreen Noteover 2 years ago
Metaphors We Web By

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 Notealmost 3 years ago

New Harvest & Illustrating the Cultivated Meat Podcast

budding Noteabout 3 years ago
Paleolithic Nostalgia

Paleolithic Nostalgia

seedling Essayabout 3 years ago
Digital Gardening for Non-Technical Folks

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

Meat Planet: The Illustrated Notes

evergreen Essayover 3 years ago
Transclusion and Transcopyright Dreams

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 Noteabout 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 Noteover 4 years ago

Building Custom React Hooks

evergreen Notealmost 5 years ago
Meet the Robowaiter APIs Serving Us Data

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