Opinionated, long-form narrative writing with an agenda
Loose notes on things I don't entirely understand yet
A catalogue of design patterns gathered from observation and research
Interesting links, papers, and tiny thoughts
Conference talk slides, transcripts, and videos
Podcast episodes I've been a guest on
Books I've read and recommend
Books I like the idea of having read
Welcome to the smidgeon stream. This is a new kind of content on the Garden. One that was...
Sketchnote Army
Shoptalk Show
The Informed Life
BBC's Digital Human
Reverb
Providing clear metadata on the epistemic validity of content
Project Xanadu as a pattern language, rather than a failed software project
Notes on pattern languages and Christopher Alexander's legacy on software programming
A video tour through how I build the old version of this site
Frontend Heroes
A walkthrough of how I manage and tend Evergreen notes in Roam
How to build a digital garden without touching code
A newly revived philosophy for publishing personal knowledge on the web
What we lose when our digital notes remove the freedom to move
The Swyx Mixtape
Seventy years ago we dreamed up links that would allow us to create two-way, contextual conversations. Why don't we use them on the web?
The lost permissioning and copyright system of the Web
RoamFM
Illustrated notes on the concept of 'Evergreen notes' and how to write them
