Life’s a garden, can you dig it?
That is what a colleague of mine had said very often when we worked together, about how you need to put time and effort into stuff. You know, get your hands dirty !
Picking up my shovel
Today I finally took a first step to trying out this digital gardening concept on Maggie Appleton’s blog0. I came across back on haha I don’t know why but on 2025-07-04 , I guess it was a kind of independence day in my brain, from the march of chronology.
The basic thing I did was to split my “posts” into “posts” and “notes” on this blog. The idea here being, that the internet has created this perverse treadmill of shiny syndrome, that we just look at what’s new and we forget about slowly curating ideas.
My change today is just about letting me write scratch thoughts in public in “notes” with less pressure for making them formal.
That also doesn’t mean that everything in “posts” is perfectly polished either, but I have one fewer reasons for building in public.
Thanks to the good vibes
Oh and I’m thanking codex here, because my hugo skills are mediocre at best and I’m glad I was able to quickly1 iterate2 on this idea in just one sitting. Yes I am slowly accumulating a bit of hugo html and css tech debt but at least this time it is not javascript tech debt which would have a greater chance of hiding some vulnerabilities.
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But this is not done yet. More to the point would be to stop sorting by time all together. I’m going to let that idea mull a bit longer 😅.