#digital-gardens — Public Fediverse posts

Been rethinking how I read, not just what I read.

Started with a professor’s curated readings → https://faculty.etsu.edu/odonnell/
Then stumbled into personal systems like https://malcolmocean.com/myhabits/

From there, it branches:

- What to read → https://agentyduck.blogspot.com/p/noticing.html
- How to interpret → The Great Gatsby essays (Atlantic / NYT revisiting it 100 years later)
- How to create → https://thecreativeindependent.com/guides/how-to-make-a-book/
- And even: what blogging looks like in 10 years → https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2025/04/blogiversary-what-will-this-blog-look-like-in-10-years-part-10-of-10.htm

Pattern I’m seeing:
Reading isn’t consumption — it’s a system:
curation → interpretation → creation → reflection.

Most people stop at step one.

#reading #learning #writing #digitalgardens #selfeducation #systemsThinking

Been rethinking how I read, not just what I read.

Started with a professor’s curated readings → https://faculty.etsu.edu/odonnell/
Then stumbled into personal systems like https://malcolmocean.com/myhabits/

From there, it branches:

- What to read → https://agentyduck.blogspot.com/p/noticing.html
- How to interpret → The Great Gatsby essays (Atlantic / NYT revisiting it 100 years later)
- How to create → https://thecreativeindependent.com/guides/how-to-make-a-book/
- And even: what blogging looks like in 10 years → https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2025/04/blogiversary-what-will-this-blog-look-like-in-10-years-part-10-of-10.htm

Pattern I’m seeing:
Reading isn’t consumption — it’s a system:
curation → interpretation → creation → reflection.

Most people stop at step one.

#reading #learning #writing #digitalgardens #selfeducation #systemsThinking

The Work Isn't Finished, It's Abandoned: Thoughts on WIP Pages | 🔗 https://brennan.day/the-work-isnt-finished-its-abandoned-thoughts-on-wip-pages/

#DigitalGardens #IndieWeb #WebCulture #PersonalEssay

The Work Isn't Finished, It's Abandoned: Thoughts on WIP Pages | 🔗 https://brennan.day/the-work-isnt-finished-its-abandoned-thoughts-on-wip-pages/

#DigitalGardens #IndieWeb #WebCulture #PersonalEssay

@albalafarga @pluralistic

Genial explicación y análisis de la nueva migración digital y salida de 'google'!

(Enshittification awareness gaining traction all over the world).

#digitalgardens #mierdificación

@albalafarga @pluralistic

Genial explicación y análisis de la nueva migración digital y salida de 'google'!

(Enshittification awareness gaining traction all over the world).

#digitalgardens #mierdificación

What are people’s experiences with #digitalgardens If you have one, do you use it for your own reference often? Have you made friends through it? Does it help you write / accomplish some other task?

Looking to hear from folks who have abandoned their gardens as well please

#digitalgarden #digitalgardening

What are people’s experiences with #digitalgardens If you have one, do you use it for your own reference often? Have you made friends through it? Does it help you write / accomplish some other task?

Looking to hear from folks who have abandoned their gardens as well please

#digitalgarden #digitalgardening

Hahah I realise that's my pic in that graphic! First, thank you @hyde for reaching out to me, and putting up with my forgetfulness. In this post I talk about #digitalgardens and #socialmedia and tea!

But I want to say that I really love his initiative. I read a post today about how urgent it is for human beings to stop relying on algorithms for content recommendations, and that we should go back to human curators, and @hyde is doing this. It's really time consuming, by the way, so I really applaud all the work he's putting in.

https://lazybea.rs/ovr-029/

#Tech #Indieweb

Hahah I realise that's my pic in that graphic! First, thank you @hyde for reaching out to me, and putting up with my forgetfulness. In this post I talk about #digitalgardens and #socialmedia and tea!

But I want to say that I really love his initiative. I read a post today about how urgent it is for human beings to stop relying on algorithms for content recommendations, and that we should go back to human curators, and @hyde is doing this. It's really time consuming, by the way, so I really applaud all the work he's putting in.

https://lazybea.rs/ovr-029/

#Tech #Indieweb

#OverUnder 029 with @liztai !

She shared her views on:

- #DigitalGardens
- #RSS
- #SocialMedia
- #Books
- #Tea

#blog #fediverse #mastodon #bookstodon

#100DaysToOffload : 075/100

https://lazybea.rs/ovr-029

#OverUnder 029 with @liztai !

She shared her views on:

- #DigitalGardens
- #RSS
- #SocialMedia
- #Books
- #Tea

#blog #fediverse #mastodon #bookstodon

#100DaysToOffload : 075/100

https://lazybea.rs/ovr-029

The pushback I received made me think about a way to re-clarify my message about digital gardens. The last thing I want people to think is that one is better than the other. I rather communicate the freedom digital gardening has given me, and how I've written so much more since taking this approach to writing for the web.

#Blogging #Blogs #DigitalGardening #DigitalGardens #PKM

http://elizabethtai.com/2025/05/13/pushback-against-digital-gardens/

The pushback I received made me think about a way to re-clarify my message about digital gardens. The last thing I want people to think is that one is better than the other. I rather communicate the freedom digital gardening has given me, and how I've written so much more since taking this approach to writing for the web.

#Blogging #Blogs #DigitalGardening #DigitalGardens #PKM

http://elizabethtai.com/2025/05/13/pushback-against-digital-gardens/

Pushback against digital gardens?

One of the most unexpected things I’ve seen is the pushback I’ve seen against digital gardens.

I wrote the blog post Digital gardens vs blogging: What’s the difference?. The intention was to demonstrate how these two ways of being on the Internet differ from each other.

My interpretation, by the way, is not something I came up with but is echoed by some digital garden practitioners such as Joel Hooks: Stop Giving af and Start Writing More.

I suspect part of the reason I resonated with his article (especially his resentment and irritation about what blogging has become), was because I was a blogger since the dawn of the Internet. I used to build my blog using raw HTML, back when blog wasn’t even called a blog.

Over the years, I’ve seen blogging morph from online diaries and eccentric websites sharing quirky things to well-polished, SEO-optimised articles promoting brands, businesses, a person’s skills and knowledge via templatised web structures.

Yes, granted that this is a generalisation of how people blog, but just search for the term “blog” or “blogging” and you’ll get recommendations on how to be a top blog on the search engines, SEO tactics, endless listicles and more.

Leaving aside those who refuse to comply to these demands*, blogging has been dominated by SEO and marketing forces for a long time.

(If you belong to this category, really, this article is not speaking about you (nor am I speaking about those who do), I’m not calling you inferior for writing content chronologically! I mean, see how dumb that sentence reads?)

Besides this article, I remember sharing Maggie Appleton’s digital garden illustration in The Dark Forest and Generative AI, and got a flurry of angry posts from it too.

People were fixated with her interpretation of the Dark Web. (I suppose describing it as a place of “decomposing morals” didn’t help. It’s nice to know that even the great Digital Gardner Maggie Appleton is not immune to pushback.)

I can’t help but chuckle about this as I feel what I’m seeing is the human instinct of being tribal and taking sides, happening here. We are all cave men in the end, driven by the instinct to protect our tribes.

I believe people can be very attached to their way of doing things, whether it be eating, living, commuting, blogging, you name it.

However, I’d like to emphasise that this post is not to attack the people giving me pushback about digital gardens. The ego may be somewhat dented (mostly because I’m annoyed that my writing wasn’t clear enough but caused misunderstanding), but this is valuable feedback. This is why I wrote the post!

The feedback made me wonder if there’s anyway to unruffle feathers and re-clarify the concept of digital gardens so that people may be less adversarial towards it.

It’s not an us vs them issue, truly

I was perhaps too quick to say that blogging is a promotional activity, though if you’ve worked in media for as long as I have (literally from the dawn of the Internet age), it sure seems like it, especially with the emphasis of using the medium to “build your brand”. Yes, I admit that I hate what blogging has become, saying:

Marketing has assimilated blogging and I hate it.

I didn’t think of adding a disclaimer to my article saying that “this is my opinion, and this doesn’t apply to all blogs” was kinda understood, but next time I’ll be sure to add it for clarity!

I concede that my article’s title, “Digital Gardens vs Blogging”, didn’t help matters, but seriously, I had zero intentions to pit blogging and digital gardening against each other.

For one, I am still blogging side by side with my digital garden! The category, Journal, is literally my blog, which I still blog about my life, chronologically. And occasionally, I commit the sin of building my personal brand with it!

My website is actually a hybrid – a digital garden and a blog.

And that’s the best thing about digital gardening is that your website can look however you want.

It’s not about which one is better

At the end of the day the difference between bloggers and digital gardeners is not whether one is better than the other, but in the way they organise and write their content.

That’s it.

Let me repeat for clarity:

From what I understand from reading the many, many articles about digital gardens, the difference between blogging and digital gardening lies in the way content is:

• organised. Blogs = chronological, digital gardens = not chronological
• written. Blogs = usually polished and SEO optimised, so that it can be promoted via social media channels. Digital gardens = unfinished copy. The gardener may return to the post/page to update it with more information later.
• niched. Not necessarily true for all blogs, of course, but it is “common wisdom” that if you want to get more eyeballs, niching is the way to go for blogs. Digital gardeners usually do not write about one topic nor do they angst about niching. Usually.
• fleeting or evergreen. Blogs, due to their chronological structure is fleeting. Old posts are often buried. Digital gardens are structured in such a way that each post can be evergreen, resurfaced again and again. Often, digital gardens are organised by categories where people can “fall into rabbit holes” where one post can lead to links to many other posts.

I think part of the problem is that there’s a lot of mystery around the term “digital gardens”. At least for now. So, it’s being promoted as some revolutionary, new-fangled thing.

Honestly, it isn’t that mysterious or even new. One way to think about digital gardens is that it is simply an individual’s curated wiki on the Internet, a knowledge base.

Both digital gardens and blogging have the same objective, sharing knowledge.

So, in conclusion:

Digital gardening is just a different way to present your thoughts on the Internet.

You can blog and digital garden at the same time and in the same space like I do.

Digital gardens give you the freedom to break free of preconceived notions or “best practices” on how to write on the Internet.

Digital gardens can be freeing. For one, it was one of the main reasons why I am writing more on my website now. Because I realise I don’t have to dance to the algorithm anymore just to be read.

I write in my digital garden because I want to learn in public.

I write in my digital garden because I want to clarify my ideas and what I’ve learned. By writing and teaching others about my ideas and learnings, I get to solidify what I’ve learned in my brain.

The feedback I get, even negative ones, help me reshape my ideas.

In the end, I write in my digital garden because it makes me happy.

#BeingAWriter #blog #blogging #digitalgardens #indieweb #Internet

Pushback against digital gardens?

One of the most unexpected things I’ve seen is the pushback I’ve seen against digital gardens.

I wrote the blog post Digital gardens vs blogging: What’s the difference?. The intention was to demonstrate how these two ways of being on the Internet differ from each other.

My interpretation, by the way, is not something I came up with but is echoed by some digital garden practitioners such as Joel Hooks: Stop Giving af and Start Writing More.

I suspect part of the reason I resonated with his article (especially his resentment and irritation about what blogging has become), was because I was a blogger since the dawn of the Internet. I used to build my blog using raw HTML, back when blog wasn’t even called a blog.

Over the years, I’ve seen blogging morph from online diaries and eccentric websites sharing quirky things to well-polished, SEO-optimised articles promoting brands, businesses, a person’s skills and knowledge via templatised web structures.

Yes, granted that this is a generalisation of how people blog, but just search for the term “blog” or “blogging” and you’ll get recommendations on how to be a top blog on the search engines, SEO tactics, endless listicles and more.

Leaving aside those who refuse to comply to these demands*, blogging has been dominated by SEO and marketing forces for a long time.

(If you belong to this category, really, this article is not speaking about you (nor am I speaking about those who do), I’m not calling you inferior for writing content chronologically! I mean, see how dumb that sentence reads?)

Besides this article, I remember sharing Maggie Appleton’s digital garden illustration in The Dark Forest and Generative AI, and got a flurry of angry posts from it too.

People were fixated with her interpretation of the Dark Web. (I suppose describing it as a place of “decomposing morals” didn’t help. It’s nice to know that even the great Digital Gardner Maggie Appleton is not immune to pushback.)

I can’t help but chuckle about this as I feel what I’m seeing is the human instinct of being tribal and taking sides, happening here. We are all cave men in the end, driven by the instinct to protect our tribes.

I believe people can be very attached to their way of doing things, whether it be eating, living, commuting, blogging, you name it.

However, I’d like to emphasise that this post is not to attack the people giving me pushback about digital gardens. The ego may be somewhat dented (mostly because I’m annoyed that my writing wasn’t clear enough but caused misunderstanding), but this is valuable feedback. This is why I wrote the post!

The feedback made me wonder if there’s anyway to unruffle feathers and re-clarify the concept of digital gardens so that people may be less adversarial towards it.

It’s not an us vs them issue, truly

I was perhaps too quick to say that blogging is a promotional activity, though if you’ve worked in media for as long as I have (literally from the dawn of the Internet age), it sure seems like it, especially with the emphasis of using the medium to “build your brand”. Yes, I admit that I hate what blogging has become, saying:

Marketing has assimilated blogging and I hate it.

I didn’t think of adding a disclaimer to my article saying that “this is my opinion, and this doesn’t apply to all blogs” was kinda understood, but next time I’ll be sure to add it for clarity!

I concede that my article’s title, “Digital Gardens vs Blogging”, didn’t help matters, but seriously, I had zero intentions to pit blogging and digital gardening against each other.

For one, I am still blogging side by side with my digital garden! The category, Journal, is literally my blog, which I still blog about my life, chronologically. And occasionally, I commit the sin of building my personal brand with it!

My website is actually a hybrid – a digital garden and a blog.

And that’s the best thing about digital gardening is that your website can look however you want.

It’s not about which one is better

At the end of the day the difference between bloggers and digital gardeners is not whether one is better than the other, but in the way they organise and write their content.

That’s it.

Let me repeat for clarity:

From what I understand from reading the many, many articles about digital gardens, the difference between blogging and digital gardening lies in the way content is:

• organised. Blogs = chronological, digital gardens = not chronological
• written. Blogs = usually polished and SEO optimised, so that it can be promoted via social media channels. Digital gardens = unfinished copy. The gardener may return to the post/page to update it with more information later.
• niched. Not necessarily true for all blogs, of course, but it is “common wisdom” that if you want to get more eyeballs, niching is the way to go for blogs. Digital gardeners usually do not write about one topic nor do they angst about niching. Usually.
• fleeting or evergreen. Blogs, due to their chronological structure is fleeting. Old posts are often buried. Digital gardens are structured in such a way that each post can be evergreen, resurfaced again and again. Often, digital gardens are organised by categories where people can “fall into rabbit holes” where one post can lead to links to many other posts.

I think part of the problem is that there’s a lot of mystery around the term “digital gardens”. At least for now. So, it’s being promoted as some revolutionary, new-fangled thing.

Honestly, it isn’t that mysterious or even new. One way to think about digital gardens is that it is simply an individual’s curated wiki on the Internet, a knowledge base.

Both digital gardens and blogging have the same objective, sharing knowledge.

So, in conclusion:

Digital gardening is just a different way to present your thoughts on the Internet.

You can blog and digital garden at the same time and in the same space like I do.

Digital gardens give you the freedom to break free of preconceived notions or “best practices” on how to write on the Internet.

Digital gardens can be freeing. For one, it was one of the main reasons why I am writing more on my website now. Because I realise I don’t have to dance to the algorithm anymore just to be read.

I write in my digital garden because I want to learn in public.

I write in my digital garden because I want to clarify my ideas and what I’ve learned. By writing and teaching others about my ideas and learnings, I get to solidify what I’ve learned in my brain.

The feedback I get, even negative ones, help me reshape my ideas.

In the end, I write in my digital garden because it makes me happy.

#BeingAWriter #blog #blogging #digitalgardens #indieweb #Internet

Attracting fury with my post about digital gardens was an unexpected thing lmao.

Look, I am not telling you how to #blog. The fact that this misunderstanding arose is because the person didn't read my post where I clearly said that blogging evolved over time, and it's now about performative self promotion. Sure, not everyone does this, or use blogs this way, but there's no denying with the SEO demands, the social media sharing, it's all very demanding on the post being complete and perfect.

Meanwhile I explain that digital gardens is a different way to put your thoughts on the internet. It is less performative and less sculptured. It can be very freeing.

https://elizabethtai.com/2025/05/10/digital-gardens-vs-blogging-whats-the-difference/

#blogging #blogs #digitalgardens

Attracting fury with my post about digital gardens was an unexpected thing lmao.

Look, I am not telling you how to #blog. The fact that this misunderstanding arose is because the person didn't read my post where I clearly said that blogging evolved over time, and it's now about performative self promotion. Sure, not everyone does this, or use blogs this way, but there's no denying with the SEO demands, the social media sharing, it's all very demanding on the post being complete and perfect.

Meanwhile I explain that digital gardens is a different way to put your thoughts on the internet. It is less performative and less sculptured. It can be very freeing.

https://elizabethtai.com/2025/05/10/digital-gardens-vs-blogging-whats-the-difference/

#blogging #blogs #digitalgardens

Digital gardens vs blogging: What’s the difference?

Digital gardens are a different way to present yourself on the Internet. Blogging is often see as a way to "brand yourself". Digital gardens are less interested in marketing a personality but in sharing knowledge.

http://elizabethtai.com/2025/05/10/digital-gardens-vs-blogging-whats-the-difference/

#indieweb #blogs #blogging #digitalgardens

Digital gardens vs blogging: What’s the difference?

Digital gardens are a different way to present yourself on the Internet. Blogging is often see as a way to "brand yourself". Digital gardens are less interested in marketing a personality but in sharing knowledge.

http://elizabethtai.com/2025/05/10/digital-gardens-vs-blogging-whats-the-difference/

#indieweb #blogs #blogging #digitalgardens

Digital gardens vs blogging: What’s the difference?

If people want to know what’s the difference between digital gardening and blogging, I’ll just direct them to this quote from the blog post, Stop giving af and start writing more by Joel Hooks:

The idea of a “blog” needs to get over itself. Everybody is treating writing as a “content marketing strategy” and using it to “build a personal brand” which leads to the fundamental flawed idea that everything you post has to be polished to perfection and ready to be consumed.

I started blogging in the early 2000s, back when “weblogs” are not about marketing thyself but about recording your life, your quirky thoughts and weird hobbies.

Now, marketing has invaded blogging, that’s all you see, and I hated what blogging has become.

Last year or so, I discovered digital gardening, and it’s like having a light bulb go off in a path shrouded by mists. I’ve had this idea to write on the web this way, but I just didn’t know what to call it. Once I got a solidified concept, I grew extremely excited!

I wrote being an imperfect digital gardener, about daring to put out grammar-addled, spelling-imperfect, half formed thoughts into the void of the Internet. I wrote about the joy of putting the idea “branding myself” to rest, and finally writing without dancing to the algorithm, not caring about SEO-fying my posts, just sharing my wild garden of thoughts and ideas to the world.

So, my thoughts about how digital gardens differ from blogs:

Blogs are chronological, often are “niched’ to align to a polished image you want to present to the world, and is about marketing the personality behind the writer. Blogs are tools to show you in the best light; a personal branding tool. Blog posts the most polished and complete version of your thoughts you want to show to the world. The posts that give people the best impression of you. Yet, they are ephemeral and rush past you like leaves on a fast-flowing river. Older posts are often buried and ignored.

Digital gardens are not chronological, the topics are often not confined to a topic but are a wild mix. The real star of the show is the knowledge being tended in the digital garden. Personal branding is more of an afterglow of the digital garden, a side effect rather than the sole purpose of a digital garden. Digital garden content are often incomplete, works-in-progress, not always polished or even well-written. However, they are like flowers in a garden, inviting you to linger and explore more through a series of posts, links and connections. Older content are resurfaced in newer essays and linked to newer ones. As a result, one can easily get lost in a rabbit hole of thoughts, exploring curiosities in unexpected ways.

Where to build your garden

Just recently, I decided to do the wild thing (at least by digital garden standards) to build my digital garden on wordpress.com. Many digital gardeners like to build theirs on static websites because they want to be free of the chronological format imposed by most blog content management systems, but I’m of the ilk who prefer not to spend endless hours building CMSes when there’s a perfectly good one I’m using.

But will there be a chance I move this website to a static website one day? I have no doubt, but the enterprise will be a humongous one.

#blogging #digitalgardens #indieweb #Internet

Digital gardens vs blogging: What’s the difference?

If people want to know what’s the difference between digital gardening and blogging, I’ll just direct them to this quote from the blog post, Stop giving af and start writing more by Joel Hooks:

The idea of a “blog” needs to get over itself. Everybody is treating writing as a “content marketing strategy” and using it to “build a personal brand” which leads to the fundamental flawed idea that everything you post has to be polished to perfection and ready to be consumed.

I started blogging in the early 2000s, back when “weblogs” are not about marketing thyself but about recording your life, your quirky thoughts and weird hobbies.

Now, marketing has invaded blogging, that’s all you see, and I hated what blogging has become.

Last year or so, I discovered digital gardening, and it’s like having a light bulb go off in a path shrouded by mists. I’ve had this idea to write on the web this way, but I just didn’t know what to call it. Once I got a solidified concept, I grew extremely excited!

I wrote being an imperfect digital gardener, about daring to put out grammar-addled, spelling-imperfect, half formed thoughts into the void of the Internet. I wrote about the joy of putting the idea “branding myself” to rest, and finally writing without dancing to the algorithm, not caring about SEO-fying my posts, just sharing my wild garden of thoughts and ideas to the world.

So, my thoughts about how digital gardens differ from blogs:

Blogs are chronological, often are “niched’ to align to a polished image you want to present to the world, and is about marketing the personality behind the writer. Blogs are tools to show you in the best light; a personal branding tool. Blog posts the most polished and complete version of your thoughts you want to show to the world. The posts that give people the best impression of you. Yet, they are ephemeral and rush past you like leaves on a fast-flowing river. Older posts are often buried and ignored.

Digital gardens are not chronological, the topics are often not confined to a topic but are a wild mix. The real star of the show is the knowledge being tended in the digital garden. Personal branding is more of an afterglow of the digital garden, a side effect rather than the sole purpose of a digital garden. Digital garden content are often incomplete, works-in-progress, not always polished or even well-written. However, they are like flowers in a garden, inviting you to linger and explore more through a series of posts, links and connections. Older content are resurfaced in newer essays and linked to newer ones. As a result, one can easily get lost in a rabbit hole of thoughts, exploring curiosities in unexpected ways.

Where to build your garden

Just recently, I decided to do the wild thing (at least by digital garden standards) to build my digital garden on wordpress.com. Many digital gardeners like to build theirs on static websites because they want to be free of the chronological format imposed by most blog content management systems, but I’m of the ilk who prefer not to spend endless hours building CMSes when there’s a perfectly good one I’m using.

But will there be a chance I move this website to a static website one day? I have no doubt, but the enterprise will be a humongous one.

#blogging #digitalgardens #indieweb #Internet

@ben at the end of a recent post about online note publishing I pointed to a few lists of #digitalgardens. I hope you find it helpful.

https://writingslowly.com/2025/04/15/why-not-publish-all-your.html

@ben at the end of a recent post about online note publishing I pointed to a few lists of #digitalgardens. I hope you find it helpful.

https://writingslowly.com/2025/04/15/why-not-publish-all-your.html

(cercando di ddossare puntarella un meme alla volta)

#digitalgardening #digitalgardens #solarpunk #meme #italiano #italian

What content do you replace the #doomscrolling content in your feed?

What content just makes you happy and calm?

Me: Anything about #Obsidian #Cats #Dogs #Cooking #Notebooks #DigitalGardens #Gardening #Cdrama and #Birds

How about you?

Ps: I am looking for peacescrolling content too, like this one below

https://youtu.be/ANcJgvAJFaU?si=x-DEYOYMhBz3w37f

What content do you replace the #doomscrolling content in your feed?

What content just makes you happy and calm?

Me: Anything about #Obsidian #Cats #Dogs #Cooking #Notebooks #DigitalGardens #Gardening #Cdrama and #Birds

How about you?

Ps: I am looking for peacescrolling content too, like this one below

https://youtu.be/ANcJgvAJFaU?si=x-DEYOYMhBz3w37f

Tsunami ghosts, anti-LinkedIn post, digital gardens, Obsidian discoveries, NPCs and more

A roundup of interesting content I stumbled on recently.

1. A digital garden on WordPress
2. Ghostly encounters: The legacy of the 2011 tsunami in Japan
3. The anti-Linkedin post
4. If most content on the Internet is cruft, how do we find the original stuff?
5. Cool software discoveries
6. Magpies building a nest in a tiny balcony in China
7. Think before you click.
8. “My neck hurts”

A digital garden on WordPress

Notes on making a digital garden on WordPress

A lot of times the Digital Garden scene seems dominated by developers. People who exist in in-between places like me feel a bit frustrated that the tools used – the static site generators – are so unfriendly to non-developer minds.

So, I’m glad that there are some folks who are building digital gardens on WordPress.

I have plans to use Obsidian and a plugin – probably either Quartz, Eveloppe or digital garden – to generate my static site one day, but this is a good workaround while I plan the possibly very complicated transition.

I did think about using Astro but the mechanics of it seem so frightening.

Ghostly encounters: The legacy of the 2011 tsunami in Japan

Do I believe in ghosts? I mean, I lived in a haunted house, so…

https://youtube.com/watch?v=tr4ULTszi00&si=NbwiGtqnL2DvVsMq

The anti-Linkedin post

I’m happy to announce my retirement from UX.

Wonder if this guy wants more publicity, but I really appreciated his very, very honest LinkedIn post about retiring from UX. Had a look at his profile, and it looks like he made the transition from teaching to UX, not the easiest transition to make. And definitely not easy to leave due to the sunk cost-ness of it all.

If most content on the Internet is cruft, how do we find the original stuff?

“We’re about to drown in a sea of pedestrian takes. An explosion of noise that will drown out any signal. Goodbye to finding original human insights or authentic connections under that pile of cruft.” – The dark forest and generative AI

Cool software discoveries

• Obsidian’s digital garden community plug-in – publish your vault online free: https://dg-docs.ole.dev/
• Obsidian’s Mastodon threading plug-in – Share posts from your Obsidian vault to Mastodon.

Magpies building a nest in a tiny balcony in China

Video on xiaohongshu has been taken down, sadly, but it’s here on my Mastodon post.

If you’re wondering why the balcony is so tiny, if they’re anything like Malaysia (and I find many apartments in China very much like ours), it’s meant for the air conditioning compressor:

Think before you click.

“The point: there is so much content on the internet that makes us feel crappy without offering any actual information that can help you make the world a better place. When I’m taking good care of myself, I’m actively working to ignore such garbage.” – Justin Pot in his article, Think before you click

How I approach Malaysian political news, really. Heck, even world news these days.

“My neck hurts”

https://youtu.be/oQFg20ZDyH0?si=SSzWruVTr_jA0c4p

Sometimes we have to remind ourselves that while our life may suck, it may not suck as badly as an NPC’s.

#Birds #digitalgardens #indieweb #Internet #Obsidian #PKM

Tsunami ghosts, anti-LinkedIn post, digital gardens, Obsidian discoveries, NPCs and more

A roundup of interesting content I stumbled on recently.

1. A digital garden on WordPress
2. Ghostly encounters: The legacy of the 2011 tsunami in Japan
3. The anti-Linkedin post
4. If most content on the Internet is cruft, how do we find the original stuff?
5. Cool software discoveries
6. Magpies building a nest in a tiny balcony in China
7. Think before you click.
8. “My neck hurts”

A digital garden on WordPress

Notes on making a digital garden on WordPress

A lot of times the Digital Garden scene seems dominated by developers. People who exist in in-between places like me feel a bit frustrated that the tools used – the static site generators – are so unfriendly to non-developer minds.

So, I’m glad that there are some folks who are building digital gardens on WordPress.

I have plans to use Obsidian and a plugin – probably either Quartz, Eveloppe or digital garden – to generate my static site one day, but this is a good workaround while I plan the possibly very complicated transition.

I did think about using Astro but the mechanics of it seem so frightening.

Ghostly encounters: The legacy of the 2011 tsunami in Japan

Do I believe in ghosts? I mean, I lived in a haunted house, so…

https://youtube.com/watch?v=tr4ULTszi00&si=NbwiGtqnL2DvVsMq

The anti-Linkedin post

I’m happy to announce my retirement from UX.

Wonder if this guy wants more publicity, but I really appreciated his very, very honest LinkedIn post about retiring from UX. Had a look at his profile, and it looks like he made the transition from teaching to UX, not the easiest transition to make. And definitely not easy to leave due to the sunk cost-ness of it all.

If most content on the Internet is cruft, how do we find the original stuff?

“We’re about to drown in a sea of pedestrian takes. An explosion of noise that will drown out any signal. Goodbye to finding original human insights or authentic connections under that pile of cruft.” – The dark forest and generative AI

Cool software discoveries

• Obsidian’s digital garden community plug-in – publish your vault online free: https://dg-docs.ole.dev/
• Obsidian’s Mastodon threading plug-in – Share posts from your Obsidian vault to Mastodon.

Magpies building a nest in a tiny balcony in China

Video on xiaohongshu has been taken down, sadly, but it’s here on my Mastodon post.

If you’re wondering why the balcony is so tiny, if they’re anything like Malaysia (and I find many apartments in China very much like ours), it’s meant for the air conditioning compressor:

Think before you click.

“The point: there is so much content on the internet that makes us feel crappy without offering any actual information that can help you make the world a better place. When I’m taking good care of myself, I’m actively working to ignore such garbage.” – Justin Pot in his article, Think before you click

How I approach Malaysian political news, really. Heck, even world news these days.

“My neck hurts”

https://youtu.be/oQFg20ZDyH0?si=SSzWruVTr_jA0c4p

Sometimes we have to remind ourselves that while our life may suck, it may not suck as badly as an NPC’s.

#Birds #digitalgardens #indieweb #Internet #Obsidian #PKM

Ich finde es einfach super spannend, welche Wirkung Informationsarchitekturen, Design, Technik usw. auf die User Experience beim Rezipieren und beim Publizieren haben können. #ux #digitalGardens

A fascinating read by @maggie on #DigitalGardens! As I've gotten into the #IndieWeb recently I'll definitely be applying what I've learned here on my own projects.

My takeaways from this:

• You can always improve your digital garden instead of focusing on publishing "perfect thoughts" in one go.
• Information should be linked by relevancy, not chronological order.
• Hosting your own personalised site made with base web technology like HTML, CSS and JS is the way to go!

https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history

A fascinating read by @maggie on #DigitalGardens! As I've gotten into the #IndieWeb recently I'll definitely be applying what I've learned here on my own projects.

My takeaways from this:

• You can always improve your digital garden instead of focusing on publishing "perfect thoughts" in one go.
• Information should be linked by relevancy, not chronological order.
• Hosting your own personalised site made with base web technology like HTML, CSS and JS is the way to go!

https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history

i'm adopting the digital garden approach to my website, which is about curating and growing a personal knowledge base and creating a living ecosystem where my ideas can grow slowly and evolve over time instead of always feeling the pressure to "perform" with a full blown blog post or essay...it's a learning in public ethos. 🌱 #DigitalGardens #KnowledgeCultivation

i'm adopting the digital garden approach to my website, which is about curating and growing a personal knowledge base and creating a living ecosystem where my ideas can grow slowly and evolve over time instead of always feeling the pressure to "perform" with a full blown blog post or essay...it's a learning in public ethos. 🌱 #DigitalGardens #KnowledgeCultivation

Digital Gardens - why you should be growing one https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history #webdev #digitalgardens

Digital Gardens - why you should be growing one https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history #webdev #digitalgardens

@matthiasott Why use a tool when you can put everything online? 😉
https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history
https://cssence.com/2024/digital-gardens/

#DigitalGarden #DigitalGardens

@matthiasott Why use a tool when you can put everything online? 😉
https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history
https://cssence.com/2024/digital-gardens/

#DigitalGarden #DigitalGardens

#DigitalGardens—A story unfolds.
Day 3 of 3: Seedlings 🌱
https://cssence.com/2024/digital-gardens/

#WebLog #Blog #IndieWeb

#DigitalGardens—A story unfolds.
Day 3 of 3: Seedlings 🌱
https://cssence.com/2024/digital-gardens/

#WebLog #Blog #IndieWeb

#DigitalGardens—A story unfolds.
Day 2 of 3: April Fools 🗓
https://cssence.com/2024/april-fools/

#DigitalGardens—A story unfolds.
Day 2 of 3: April Fools 🗓
https://cssence.com/2024/april-fools/

#DigitalGardens — A story unfolds.
Day 1 of 3: Easter eggs 🥚
https://cssence.com/series/easter-eggs/

#HTML #CSS #JS

#DigitalGardens — A story unfolds.
Day 1 of 3: Easter eggs 🥚
https://cssence.com/series/easter-eggs/

#HTML #CSS #JS

Manuel:

At the same time, there’s another type of garden on the web, not a walled one, but a digital one. Personal websites come in many shapes and sizes and the digital garden is one of them.

It’s interesting how we’re using the same metaphor—the garden—to describe two completely different things. One is the embodiment of the capitalist mindset applied to the digital ecosystem driven by greed. The other is the digital manifestation of personal expression. Digital gardens are—or at least should be—a welcoming place.

But they should not be a destination. The point of a garden is to walk through it, to enjoy what it has to offer, and to then keep moving while carrying its beauty with you. Ideally, you should come out of that walk enriched, and not enraged.

https://manuelmoreale.com/digital-walled-gardens

<3

https://gurupanguji.com/2024/03/11/%f0%9f%94%97-digital-walled-gardens-manuel-morales/

#blogs #digitalGardens #gardens #indieWeb #openWeb

For citizens of the #OpenWeb, I think it means deciding what we love about it and then fighting for those things.

For me, it's the quirky platforms that comprise the #OpenWeb — #Omglol #Feedland, #microblog, and many others. It's also all the personal sites, blogs and #digitalgardens, on the #indieweb.

For citizens of the #OpenWeb, I think it means deciding what we love about it and then fighting for those things.

For me, it's the quirky platforms that comprise the #OpenWeb — #Omglol #Feedland, #microblog, and many others. It's also all the personal sites, blogs and #digitalgardens, on the #indieweb.

Why do we confine ourselves to a handful of apps when the web is so gigantic? 

I just watched M. Night Shyamalan's The Village so you're getting another "web is the forest" metaphor tonight!

#indieweb #SmallWeb #digitalGardens

https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/the-village-effect-of-the-greater-web/

Why do we confine ourselves to a handful of apps when the web is so gigantic? 

I just watched M. Night Shyamalan's The Village so you're getting another "web is the forest" metaphor tonight!

#indieweb #SmallWeb #digitalGardens

https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/the-village-effect-of-the-greater-web/

#DigitalGardens At first I felt very excited to share my notes on my digital garden, and now I'm rethinking it. I feel somewhat exposed, not knowing where to put the line between what is shareable and what should be private. It also feel like I'm still in a quest for validation more than to #LearnInPublic. Maybe I have to think in private for a while.

Other #pkm enthusiasts, any insights on the "public" dimension of sharing your notes?

#DigitalGardens At first I felt very excited to share my notes on my digital garden, and now I'm rethinking it. I feel somewhat exposed, not knowing where to put the line between what is shareable and what should be private. It also feel like I'm still in a quest for validation more than to #LearnInPublic. Maybe I have to think in private for a while.

Other #pkm enthusiasts, any insights on the "public" dimension of sharing your notes?

New blog post up, where I talk about how I discovered the indie web and how it makes me feel.
Inspired by a podcast and an article. For the link to the latter, thank you to @[email protected]!

#IndieWeb #PersonalWebsite #neocities #DigitalGardens #PersonalBlog

https://theresmiling.neocities.org/blog/2023/04/jungles-and-gardens

New blog post up, where I talk about how I discovered the indie web and how it makes me feel.
Inspired by a podcast and an article. For the link to the latter, thank you to @[email protected]!

#IndieWeb #PersonalWebsite #neocities #DigitalGardens #PersonalBlog

https://theresmiling.neocities.org/blog/2023/04/jungles-and-gardens

I've started down the rabbit hole. I'm currently reading about #DigitalGardens . I've already got #github which apparently is a good start. Now I just need to get to grips with the practicalities.

I don't think that any of this is really difficult, but it's kinda a new concept and I need to get used to it.

#introduction I’m Daniel Santos, a computer scientist, systems analyst, business analyst and ESL teacher, born and living in Brazil 🇧🇷.

I’m a husband and father of 2 boys. We also have a tiny Yorkshire dog named Luke so the force may be with us.

I love #pkm #obsidian #logseq #digitalgardens #books #roguelikes #rpg and many more things.

I’m working with business development and digital platforms, always having continuous learning in mind.

thank you #Babycastles for inviting me to give a walkthrough on #TiddlyWiki #digitalgardens 🌱 #nonlinear #notebooks … that was fun! let's future-proof our work and reclaim our data ~

https://youtu.be/hB6sT1MnpTs