The Garden

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

Topics

Language Models as Epistemic Rubber Ducks

Tools for Thought as Cultural Practices, not Computational Objects

Positioning Elements & Scrollytelling in CSS

Building a Second Brain: The Illustrated Notes

Metaphors We Web By

The Eponymous Laws of Programming

Neologisms

The Pattern Language of Project Xanadu

The Best Illustration Books and Courses

A Meta-Tour of This Site

Illustrating Gatsby's Key Concepts

Making Programming Visual, Spatial, and Learnable

Natureculture, Moral Purity, and Cultural Boundaries

The Echo & Narcissus Writing Club

The Linear Oppression of Note-taking Apps

How to Draw Invisible Programming Concepts: Part I

Painting Roam Research with Custom CSS

Are Data Unions the Future of Data?

GreenSock Animations with React Hooks

Why You Own an iPad and Still Can't Draw

How to Become a Neo-Cartesian Cyborg

A Naive Exploration of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning

Visually Workshopping the AWS Cloud

A Chat with Henry Zhu on OSS & Gift Economies

A Journey into Vue-Router

JavaScript Bits You Skipped the First Time Around

Speaking the GraphQL Query Language

The JAMStack, Gatsby & Contentful

A Shelfish Starter Guide to Databases

A Fruitful Guide to JavaScript's Comparison Operators

What the Fork is the React Virtual DOM

A Digital Anthropology Reading List

Folk Interfaces

The Block-Paved Path to Structured Data

Programmable Notes

Spatial Web Browsing

Epistemic Disclosure

Frequently Asked Questions

A Picture Worth a Thousand Programmes

Pattern Languages in Programming and Interface Design

Tracking Humanity

A Brief Introduction to Digital Anthropology

Plebeian Programming with Keyboard Maestro

Tending Evergreen Notes in Roam Research

A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden

Douglas, Dirt, and Matter Out of Place

Fetishism & Mechanical Keyboards

A Short History of Bi-Directional Links

Organic, Local, Artisan Data Storage

Drawing the Invisible: React Explained in Five Visual Metaphors

The Gift Economy

Growing the Evergreens

Silent Synchronous Reading Sessions

Fixing Common Git Mistakes

Defend Your Cookies with Essential Web Security Tactics

What the Fork is Rust?

Building Custom React Hooks

Meet the Robowaiter APIs Serving Us Data

Instachatting with Vue & Socket.io

Testing Apps with Cypress

What the Fork is Babel?

JavaScript's ...spread Operator

Programming Portals

Joining Ought

Daily Notes Pages

Interoperable Personal Libraries and Ad Hoc Reading Groups

Assumed Audiences

Algorithmic Transparency

The Finest Narrative Non-Fiction Essays

Pink, Soft, Glittering Developers

The Cultural Anthropology of React

A Metaphorical Reading Collection

New Harvest & Illustrating the Cultivated Meat Podcast

Paleolithic Nostalgia

Digital Gardening for Non-Technical Folks

What App is That?

Problematic Proteins

Meat Planet: The Illustrated Notes

Transclusion and Transcopyright Dreams

A History of Cyborgs