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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 Essayabout 11 hours ago
Tools for Thought as Cultural Practices, not Computational Objects

Tools for Thought as Cultural Practices, not Computational Objects

budding Essay2 months ago

Positioning Elements & Scrollytelling in CSS

budding Note5 months ago

Building a Second Brain: The Illustrated Notes

evergreen Note7 months ago
Metaphors We Web By

Metaphors We Web By

budding Essay10 months ago

The Eponymous Laws of Programming

budding Note11 months ago

Neologisms

evergreen Note11 months ago
The Pattern Language of Project Xanadu

The Pattern Language of Project Xanadu

budding Essay11 months ago

The Best Illustration Books and Courses

evergreen Note12 months ago

A Meta-Tour of This Site

budding Noteabout 1 year ago

Illustrating Gatsby's Key Concepts

evergreen Noteabout 1 year ago

Making Programming Visual, Spatial, and Learnable

budding Noteabout 1 year ago

Natureculture, Moral Purity, and Cultural Boundaries

seedling Noteover 1 year ago

The Echo & Narcissus Writing Club

evergreen Noteover 1 year ago

The Linear Oppression of Note-taking Apps

seedling Noteover 1 year ago
How to Draw Invisible Programming Concepts: Part I

How to Draw Invisible Programming Concepts: Part I

evergreen Essayover 1 year ago

Painting Roam Research with Custom CSS

evergreen Notealmost 2 years ago

Are Data Unions the Future of Data?

budding Notealmost 2 years ago

GreenSock Animations with React Hooks

budding Noteabout 2 years ago
Why You Own an iPad and Still Can't Draw

Why You Own an iPad and Still Can't Draw

budding Essayover 2 years ago

How to Become a Neo-Cartesian Cyborg

evergreen Noteover 2 years ago

A Naive Exploration of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning

budding Noteover 2 years ago

Visually Workshopping the AWS Cloud

evergreen Noteover 2 years ago

A Chat with Henry Zhu on OSS & Gift Economies

evergreen Noteover 2 years ago

A Journey into Vue-Router

evergreen Notealmost 3 years ago

JavaScript Bits You Skipped the First Time Around

evergreen Notealmost 3 years ago

Speaking the GraphQL Query Language

evergreen Noteover 3 years ago

The JAMStack, Gatsby & Contentful

evergreen Noteover 3 years ago
A Shelfish Starter Guide to Databases

A Shelfish Starter Guide to Databases

evergreen Essayover 3 years ago

A Fruitful Guide to JavaScript's Comparison Operators

evergreen Notealmost 4 years ago

What the Fork is the React Virtual DOM

evergreen Notealmost 4 years ago

A Digital Anthropology Reading List

budding Note15 days ago

Folk Interfaces

Pattern3 months ago

The Block-Paved Path to Structured Data

budding Note5 months ago

Programmable Notes

Pattern8 months ago

Spatial Web Browsing

Pattern10 months ago

Epistemic Disclosure

Pattern11 months ago

Frequently Asked Questions

seedling Note11 months ago

A Picture Worth a Thousand Programmes

evergreen Note12 months ago

Pattern Languages in Programming and Interface Design

seedling Noteabout 1 year ago

Tracking Humanity

seedling Noteabout 1 year ago
A Brief Introduction to Digital Anthropology

A Brief Introduction to Digital Anthropology

budding Essayabout 1 year ago

Plebeian Programming with Keyboard Maestro

seedling Noteabout 1 year ago

Tending Evergreen Notes in Roam Research

budding Noteover 1 year ago
A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden

A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden

evergreen Essayover 1 year ago

Douglas, Dirt, and Matter Out of Place

budding Noteover 1 year ago

Fetishism & Mechanical Keyboards

seedling Noteover 1 year ago
A Short History of Bi-Directional Links

A Short History of Bi-Directional Links

evergreen Essayalmost 2 years ago
Organic, Local, Artisan Data Storage

Organic, Local, Artisan Data Storage

budding Essayalmost 2 years ago

Drawing the Invisible: React Explained in Five Visual Metaphors

budding Noteabout 2 years ago

The Gift Economy

budding Noteover 2 years ago

Growing the Evergreens

evergreen Noteover 2 years ago

Silent Synchronous Reading Sessions

seedling Noteover 2 years ago

Fixing Common Git Mistakes

evergreen Noteover 2 years ago

Defend Your Cookies with Essential Web Security Tactics

evergreen Notealmost 3 years ago

What the Fork is Rust?

evergreen Notealmost 3 years ago

Building Custom React Hooks

evergreen Noteabout 3 years ago
Meet the Robowaiter APIs Serving Us Data

Meet the Robowaiter APIs Serving Us Data

evergreen Essayover 3 years ago

Instachatting with Vue & Socket.io

evergreen Noteover 3 years ago

Testing Apps with Cypress

evergreen Noteover 3 years ago

What the Fork is Babel?

evergreen Notealmost 4 years ago

JavaScript's ...spread Operator

evergreen Notealmost 4 years ago

Programming Portals

Patternabout 1 month ago

Joining Ought

evergreen Note4 months ago

Daily Notes Pages

Pattern7 months ago

Interoperable Personal Libraries and Ad Hoc Reading Groups

budding Note9 months ago

Assumed Audiences

Pattern11 months ago

Algorithmic Transparency

Pattern11 months ago

The Finest Narrative Non-Fiction Essays

budding Note11 months ago

Pink, Soft, Glittering Developers

seedling Note12 months ago

The Cultural Anthropology of React

budding Noteabout 1 year ago

A Metaphorical Reading Collection

seedling Noteabout 1 year ago

New Harvest & Illustrating the Cultivated Meat Podcast

budding Noteabout 1 year ago
Paleolithic Nostalgia

Paleolithic Nostalgia

seedling Essayover 1 year ago
Digital Gardening for Non-Technical Folks

Digital Gardening for Non-Technical Folks

evergreen Essayover 1 year ago

What App is That?

evergreen Noteover 1 year ago
Problematic Proteins

Problematic Proteins

seedling Essayover 1 year ago
Meat Planet: The Illustrated Notes

Meat Planet: The Illustrated Notes

evergreen Essayalmost 2 years ago
Transclusion and Transcopyright Dreams

Transclusion and Transcopyright Dreams

budding Essayalmost 2 years ago

A History of Cyborgs

budding Notealmost 2 years ago

The Bare Essentials of Greensock

budding Noteabout 2 years ago

Synecdoche: Drawing the Part for the Whole

seedling Noteover 2 years ago

The Knowledge Hydrant

seedling Noteover 2 years ago

What the Fork is React Suspense?

evergreen Noteover 2 years ago

The Dark Forest and the Cozy Web

budding Noteover 2 years ago

What the Fork is xState?

evergreen Notealmost 3 years ago

The Art and Craft of Gatsby Themes

evergreen Notealmost 3 years ago

Immutable Data with Immer and Personal Assistant Bots

evergreen Noteover 3 years ago

A Fresh Serving of JavaScript ES2019

evergreen Noteover 3 years ago

Building VR Apps with React360

evergreen Noteover 3 years ago

How Are Compilers & Transpilers Different?

evergreen Noteover 3 years ago

JSX is a Lovechild

evergreen Notealmost 4 years ago