Dan's garden
Welcome to my digital garden.
Hi, I’m Dan. I’m a self-taught software developer from the Netherlands. My background is in aviation, but I decided to make a career switch from commercial pilot to developer in 2012. I currently work at Framer as a backend engineer, where I help build and scale the global hosting backend and infrastructure.
Besides coding and airplanes, I also like reading books (especially fantasy), eating delicious pastries, salsa dancing (I’m not very good, but it helps burn off some of those pastries) and riding my bike (I mean bicycle, but bike sounds cooler).
Digital garden?
A digital garden is a way to publish personal knowledge on the web. It sits somewhere between a collection of personal notes (messy, topological) and a personal blog (polished, chronological).
The main goal of a digital garden is to collect, grow and evolve ideas over time. It’s about making connections, learning in public and having a personal space that reflects your way of thinking. But what makes it unique, is that a digital garden has unfinished and imperfect work.
Want to learn more about digital gardens?
Why I garden
I like the idea of a digital garden, because it:
- Represents continuous learning and growth.
- Embraces imperfection.
Regarding point 1, I enjoy learning (more) about topics related to software engineering and computer science. So a large part of my garden will be about that.
And regarding point 2, I’m curious to try out the more messy and chaotic nature of a digital garden. Because I find that (regularly) posting on a personal blog doesn’t really work for me: I end up with a lot of drafts and don’t publish much, because I feel like it’s not good enough.
How I garden
My garden contains work in different stages, and I’m using the following tags to make the status of a page more clear:
- seedling for work that’s (very) rough and early stage.
- sapling for work that’s starting to take shape, but is not complete yet.
- evergreen for work I feel is reasonably complete.
But because a garden is never finished, each page contains planted and last tended dates to show how long it’s been growing.
About this site
- Built with Quartz.
- Color theme is Rosé Pine.
- Homepage illustration generated with Midjourney.
- All code can be found at github.com/danillouz/dans.garden.