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The Garden

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

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Language Models as Epistemic Rubber Ducks

Language Models as Epistemic Rubber Ducks

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

Tools for Thought as Cultural Practices, not Computational Objects

budding Essayover 2 years ago

Positioning Elements & Scrollytelling in CSS

budding Noteover 2 years ago

Building a Second Brain: The Illustrated Notes

evergreen Notealmost 3 years ago
Metaphors We Web By

Metaphors We Web By

budding Essayabout 3 years ago

The Eponymous Laws of Programming

budding Noteabout 3 years ago

Neologisms

evergreen Noteover 3 years ago
The Pattern Language of Project Xanadu

The Pattern Language of Project Xanadu

budding Essayover 3 years ago

The Best Illustration Books and Courses

evergreen Noteover 3 years ago

A Meta-Tour of This Site

budding Noteover 3 years ago

Illustrating Gatsby's Key Concepts

evergreen Noteover 3 years ago

Making Programming Visual, Spatial, and Learnable

budding Noteover 3 years ago

Natureculture, Moral Purity, and Cultural Boundaries

seedling Noteover 3 years ago

The Echo & Narcissus Writing Club

evergreen Notealmost 4 years ago

The Linear Oppression of Note-taking Apps

seedling Notealmost 4 years ago
How to Draw Invisible Programming Concepts: Part I

How to Draw Invisible Programming Concepts: Part I

evergreen Essayabout 4 years ago

Painting Roam Research with Custom CSS

evergreen Noteabout 4 years ago

Are Data Unions the Future of Data?

budding Noteabout 4 years ago

GreenSock Animations with React Hooks

budding Noteover 4 years ago
Why You Own an iPad and Still Can't Draw

Why You Own an iPad and Still Can't Draw

budding Essayover 4 years ago

How to Become a Neo-Cartesian Cyborg

evergreen Noteover 4 years ago

A Naive Exploration of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning

budding Notealmost 5 years ago

Visually Workshopping the AWS Cloud

evergreen Notealmost 5 years ago

A Chat with Henry Zhu on OSS & Gift Economies

evergreen Notealmost 5 years ago

A Journey into Vue-Router

evergreen Noteabout 5 years ago

JavaScript Bits You Skipped the First Time Around

evergreen Noteover 5 years ago

Speaking the GraphQL Query Language

evergreen Noteover 5 years ago

The JAMStack, Gatsby & Contentful

evergreen Notealmost 6 years ago
A Shelfish Starter Guide to Databases

A Shelfish Starter Guide to Databases

evergreen Essayalmost 6 years ago

A Fruitful Guide to JavaScript's Comparison Operators

evergreen Noteabout 6 years ago

What the Fork is the React Virtual DOM

evergreen Noteabout 6 years ago

A Digital Anthropology Reading List

budding Noteover 2 years ago

Folk Interfaces

Patternover 2 years ago

The Block-Paved Path to Structured Data

budding Notealmost 3 years ago

Programmable Notes

Patternabout 3 years ago

Spatial Web Browsing

Patternabout 3 years ago

Epistemic Disclosure

Patternover 3 years ago

Frequently Asked Questions

seedling Noteover 3 years ago

A Picture Worth a Thousand Programmes

evergreen Noteover 3 years ago

Pattern Languages in Programming and Interface Design

seedling Noteover 3 years ago

Tracking Humanity

seedling Noteover 3 years ago
A Brief Introduction to Digital Anthropology

A Brief Introduction to Digital Anthropology

budding Essayover 3 years ago

Plebeian Programming with Keyboard Maestro

seedling Noteover 3 years ago

Tending Evergreen Notes in Roam Research

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

A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden

evergreen Essayalmost 4 years ago

Douglas, Dirt, and Matter Out of Place

budding Notealmost 4 years ago

Fetishism & Mechanical Keyboards

seedling Noteabout 4 years ago
A Short History of Bi-Directional Links

A Short History of Bi-Directional Links

evergreen Essayabout 4 years ago
Organic, Local, Artisan Data Storage

Organic, Local, Artisan Data Storage

budding Essayabout 4 years ago

Drawing the Invisible: React Explained in Five Visual Metaphors

budding Noteover 4 years ago

The Gift Economy

budding Noteover 4 years ago

Growing the Evergreens

evergreen Notealmost 5 years ago

Silent Synchronous Reading Sessions

seedling Notealmost 5 years ago

Fixing Common Git Mistakes

evergreen Notealmost 5 years ago

Defend Your Cookies with Essential Web Security Tactics

evergreen Noteabout 5 years ago

What the Fork is Rust?

evergreen Noteabout 5 years ago

Building Custom React Hooks

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

Meet the Robowaiter APIs Serving Us Data

evergreen Essayalmost 6 years ago

Instachatting with Vue & Socket.io

evergreen Notealmost 6 years ago

Testing Apps with Cypress

evergreen Notealmost 6 years ago

What the Fork is Babel?

evergreen Noteabout 6 years ago

JavaScript's ...spread Operator

evergreen Noteabout 6 years ago

Programming Portals

Patternover 2 years ago

Joining Ought

evergreen Noteover 2 years ago

Daily Notes Pages

Patternalmost 3 years ago

Interoperable Personal Libraries and Ad Hoc Reading Groups

budding Noteabout 3 years ago

Assumed Audiences

Patternabout 3 years ago

Algorithmic Transparency

Patternover 3 years ago

The Finest Narrative Non-Fiction Essays

budding Noteover 3 years ago

Pink, Soft, Glittering Developers

seedling Noteover 3 years ago

The Cultural Anthropology of React

budding Noteover 3 years ago

A Metaphorical Reading Collection

seedling Noteover 3 years ago

New Harvest & Illustrating the Cultivated Meat Podcast

budding Noteover 3 years ago
Paleolithic Nostalgia

Paleolithic Nostalgia

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

Digital Gardening for Non-Technical Folks

evergreen Essayalmost 4 years ago

What App is That?

evergreen Notealmost 4 years ago
Problematic Proteins

Problematic Proteins

seedling Essayabout 4 years ago
Meat Planet: The Illustrated Notes

Meat Planet: The Illustrated Notes

evergreen Essayabout 4 years ago
Transclusion and Transcopyright Dreams

Transclusion and Transcopyright Dreams

budding Essayabout 4 years ago

A History of Cyborgs

budding Noteover 4 years ago

The Bare Essentials of Greensock

budding Noteover 4 years ago

Synecdoche: Drawing the Part for the Whole

seedling Noteover 4 years ago

The Knowledge Hydrant

seedling Notealmost 5 years ago

What the Fork is React Suspense?

evergreen Notealmost 5 years ago

The Dark Forest and the Cozy Web

budding Notealmost 5 years ago

What the Fork is xState?

evergreen Noteabout 5 years ago

The Art and Craft of Gatsby Themes

evergreen Noteover 5 years ago

Immutable Data with Immer and Personal Assistant Bots

evergreen Noteover 5 years ago

A Fresh Serving of JavaScript ES2019

evergreen Notealmost 6 years ago

Building VR Apps with React360

evergreen Notealmost 6 years ago

How Are Compilers & Transpilers Different?

evergreen Notealmost 6 years ago

JSX is a Lovechild

evergreen Noteabout 6 years ago