Dan's garden
Welcome to my digital garden.
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
- Part of Dan’s Land.
- Built with Quartz.
- Color theme is Rosé Pine.
- Homepage illustration generated with Midjourney.
- All code can be found at github.com/danillouz/dans.garden.