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The Digital Garden

An open collection of notes, resources, sketches, and explorations I'm currently cultivating. Some notes are Seedlings, some are budding, and some are fully grown Evergreen.

Web Development
Talks & Podcasts
React
Metaphors
JavaScript
Collaborative Learning
Design
Anthropology
Cultured Meat
Digital Gardening
Roam
The Web
How to Illustrate
Linguistics
Data
Illustrated Notes
CSS
Embodiment
Economics
Scrollytelling
Greensock
Gatsby
Seedling
Budding
Evergreen

A Picture Worth a Thousand Programmes

Oct 22, 2021
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Making Programming Visual, Graphical, and Learnable

Sep 13, 2021
budding🌿

Plebian Programming with Keyboard Maestro

Sep 04, 2021
seedling🌱

What I'm Doing Now

Aug 07, 2021
seedling🌱

Natureculture, Moral Purity, and Cultural Boundaries

Jul 29, 2021
seedling🌱

Paleolithic Nostalgia

Jul 29, 2021
seedling🌱

Design Patterns in Interactive Programming Games

Jul 15, 2021
seedling🌱

Tending Evergreen Notes in Roam Research

Jul 11, 2021
budding🌿

The Pattern Language of Project Xanadu

Jun 17, 2021
budding🌿

Digital Gardening for Non-Technical Folks

Jun 11, 2021
evergreen🌳

The Echo & Narcissus Writing Club

Jun 08, 2021
evergreen🌳

A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden

May 28, 2021
evergreen🌳

What App is That?

May 23, 2021
evergreen🌳

The Linear Oppression of Note-taking Apps

May 19, 2021
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Douglas, Dirt, and Matter Out of Place

Apr 29, 2021
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Pink, Soft, Glittering Developers

Mar 17, 2021
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Fetishism & Mechanical Keyboards

Feb 25, 2021
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A Short History of Bi-Directional Links

Feb 10, 2021
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Transclusion and Transcopyright Dreams

Jan 20, 2021
budding🌿

The Eponymous Laws of Programming

Jan 17, 2021
seedling🌱

Are Data Unions the Future of Data?

Jan 15, 2021
budding🌿

Organic, Local, Artisan Data Storage

Jan 14, 2021
budding🌿

Neologisms

Jan 05, 2021
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Positioning Elements & Scrollytelling in CSS

Dec 26, 2020
budding🌿

Painting Roam Research with Custom CSS

Dec 15, 2020
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A History of Cyborgs

Nov 24, 2020
budding🌿

A Digital Anthropology Reading List

Nov 18, 2020
budding🌿

A Brief Introduction to Digital Anthropology

Oct 14, 2020
budding🌿

GreenSock Animations with React Hooks

Sep 27, 2020
budding🌿

Drawing the Invisible: React Explained in Five Visual Metaphors

Sep 16, 2020
budding🌿

The Bare Essentials of Greensock

Sep 08, 2020
budding🌿

Why You Own an iPad and Still Can't Draw

Aug 22, 2020
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Illustrating Gatsby's Key Concepts

Aug 20, 2020
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The Cultural Anthropology of React

Aug 18, 2020
budding🌿

Problematic Proteins

Aug 08, 2020
seedling🌱

New Harvest & Illustrating the Cultivated Meat Podcast

Aug 04, 2020
budding🌿

The Gift Economy

Aug 03, 2020
budding🌿

Synecdoche: Drawing the Part for the Whole

Jul 28, 2020
seedling🌱

A Meta-Tour of This Site

Jul 22, 2020
budding🌿

How to Become a Neo-Cartesian Cyborg

Jul 12, 2020
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Growing the Evergreens

Jun 28, 2020
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The Knowledge Hydrant

Jun 28, 2020
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Frequently Asked Questions

Jun 27, 2020
budding🌿

A Naive Exploration of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning

Jun 26, 2020
budding🌿

Understanding by Design

Jun 23, 2020
seedling🌱

Silent Synchronous Reading Sessions

Jun 19, 2020
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What the Fork is React Suspense?

Jun 16, 2020
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Visually Workshopping the AWS Cloud

Jun 16, 2020
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Pattern Languages

Jun 03, 2020
seedling🌱

Fixing Common Git Mistakes

May 21, 2020
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Tracking Humanity

May 12, 2020
seedling🌱

The Dark Forest and the Cozy Web

May 02, 2020
budding🌿

A Chat with Henry Zhu on OSS & Gift Economies

Apr 30, 2020
evergreen🌳

Defend Your Cookies with Essential Web Security Tactics

Feb 08, 2020
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What the Fork is xState?

Jan 22, 2020
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A Journey into Vue-Router

Jan 16, 2020
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What the Fork is Rust?

Jan 10, 2020
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The Art and Craft of Gatsby Themes

Jan 02, 2020
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JavaScript Bits You Skipped the First Time Around

Dec 28, 2019
evergreen🌳

Building Custom React Hooks

Nov 02, 2019
evergreen🌳

Immutable Data with Immer and Personal Assistant Bots

Aug 10, 2019
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Speaking the GraphQL Query Language

Jul 30, 2019
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A Fresh Serving of JavaScript ES2019

Jun 23, 2019
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The JAMStack, Gatsby & Contentful

Jun 01, 2019
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Instachatting with Vue & Socket.io

May 20, 2019
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Building VR Apps with React360

May 14, 2019
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Testing Apps with Cypress

May 10, 2019
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How Are Compilers & Transpilers Different?

May 01, 2019
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A Fruitful Guide to JavaScript's Comparison Operators

Feb 14, 2019
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What the Fork is Babel?

Feb 01, 2019
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JSX is a Lovechild

Jan 20, 2019
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What the Fork is the React Virtual DOM

Jan 20, 2019
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JavaScript's ...spread Operator

Jan 20, 2019
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