[HN Gopher] Digital Gardening
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Digital Gardening
Author : nicbou
Score : 107 points
Date : 2022-10-15 11:10 UTC (1 days ago)
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| kornhole wrote:
| It is an apt metaphor I use regularly as I have a large and
| growing vegetable and flower garden as well as a growing server
| farm with services I tend to more than others. They are both
| labors of love, learning, and growth. I share the fruits of both
| with friends and family.
| colordrops wrote:
| This is how I treat my NixOS config repo.
| mush_room wrote:
| I'm always up for checking a well-kept garden, care to share?
| colordrops wrote:
| Unfortunately there is no DM capability on HN, otherwise I'd
| share it. Prefer to stay anonymous on here.
| mush_room wrote:
| Understood! If you think your config is particularly nice I
| created an proton.me account as mush_room_hn, I'm a nix
| config collector of sorts ;-).
| lukasfischer wrote:
| We run our company with a forest in mind. Client projects are
| gardens within the forest. We have a green house for seedlings
| (innovation projects), we have a fire in the center, where we
| regularly meet and hang out. We have an outlook point, where we
| look out to sense what's on the horizon... obviously, we don't
| want our gardens full of weeds or trash laying around.
| imhoguy wrote:
| I've just come to conclusion I need a composter in the corner.
| Too much half-done stuff.
| Borrible wrote:
| "Even the wisest among you is only a disharmony and hybrid of
| plant and phantom. But do I bid you become phantoms or plants?"
| Zarathustra, prologue
|
| https://aeon.co/videos/amid-the-chaos-of-being-nietzsche-bel...
| grimgrin wrote:
| Similarly:
|
| "My product is my garden"
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26012189
|
| "My blog is a digital garden"
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22876273
| madiator wrote:
| You can think of your mind as a garden as well:
| https://newsletter.smarter.blog/p/mind-as-a-garden
| throwamon wrote:
| Mine is more like a rainforest disappearing due to
| deforestation, if I'm being honest.
| [deleted]
| galfarragem wrote:
| Feel free to post your digital garden under to not pollute this
| _garden_ too much. Gardeners like to see other gardens.
|
| There are different kinds of digital gardens. Mine[0] lives on
| Github and it evolves slowly these days but I like to think that
| is well tendered and organized - for my taste. There's some juicy
| fruit and vegetables. Probably you will find some weeds also but
| weeds are flowers too when you get to know them.
|
| [0] https://github.com/slowernews/notebook
| binnyva wrote:
| Digital Zen Garden - https://notes.binnyva.com/ :-)
| axiom_aporia wrote:
| Freshly planted: https://pausestate.com/
|
| Not much has grown yet, but a new space to think.
| mfashby wrote:
| Why not :) https://mfashby.net/
| andrei_says_ wrote:
| Loved your blogging style. Would be curious to see more about
| your journey learning clojure and maybe some highlights and
| examples of what you learn by using the new language.
|
| Feel inspired to start writing myself.
| mfashby wrote:
| Thanks! I can recommend writing, even just short stuff, I
| think it helps consolidate things you have learned (or just
| lets you show off your skateboard collection)
|
| if/when I get back to clojure, maybe I'll even code
| something in it and write about it after :)
| obviyus wrote:
| Here's mine (just finished a landscaping project!):
| https://obviy.us
| the-printer wrote:
| Your web page and those similar excel in relation to my own
| interpretation of what a "digital garden" is by being
| architecturally sound. I mean that I can visit your page not
| knowing what to expect but after reading the headings, I can
| instantly tell that I am interested in what's being offered.
| Good information architecture is really what makes personal
| websites or blogs that are given the label "digital gardens"
| stand out to me.
|
| I'm still working on mine, if it is destined for me to ever
| share...
| itsmemattchung wrote:
| https://digitalorganizationdad.substack.com and
| https://mattchung.me
| apricot13 wrote:
| I've been working on mine the past couple of weeks i love the
| idea of things not having to be perfect!
|
| https://www.apricot13.org/
| baobabKoodaa wrote:
| Here's mine: https://attejuvonen.fi
| tantony wrote:
| https://www.thomasantony.com/notes/
|
| I recently exported my kind-of-zettelkasten markdown notes
| repository to my website.
| fsiefken wrote:
| my garden - https://olin.monster/
| batterylow wrote:
| Mine is https://datacrayon.com
| mtsolitary wrote:
| Here's mine: https://mtsolitary.com
| DustinBrett wrote:
| My desktop environment in the browser which is also my personal
| website and my life long project.
|
| - https://github.com/DustinBrett/daedalOS
|
| - https://dustinbrett.com/
| nikivi wrote:
| Here's mine https://wiki.nikiv.dev
|
| Code here: https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/knowledge
| hemmert wrote:
| https://www.escape-team.com
| bsnnkv wrote:
| My garden - https://notado.app
| malux85 wrote:
| Mine is my startup : https://atomictessellator.com
|
| When I'm not doing core product, I'm gardening - Importing new
| datasets, trying out "growing" new neural nets, exploring niche
| areas not related to the core product, improving the speed of
| execution, making the interfaces cleaner.
|
| All of these tasks are like gardening in that they are not
| product critical, but it's a relaxing activity at the end of
| the day to "potter in the digital garden"
| entaloneralie wrote:
| Wiki-type garden, written in a forth-like assembly. I've been
| taking care of it for 17 years now, 500+ pages
|
| - browser: https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/home.html
|
| - source:
| https://github.com/XXIIVV/oscean/blob/main/src/oscean.tal
| mattnorris wrote:
| https://mattnorris.dev
| iancmceachern wrote:
| Here's mine: https://www.iancollmceachern.com/blog
| rietta wrote:
| I love this. Having operated https://rietta.com for 23 years and
| counting. Maintaining links and pages that are no longer my focus
| but history would be lessoned to have them vanish. It goes
| through phases that I fail to tend to it properly and then rushes
| to catch up and "save the plants".
| DonHopkins wrote:
| Vegan Devops:
|
| Treat servers like crops, not gardens.
| larrymyers wrote:
| I like this metaphor too. A personal space for blogging and small
| projects gives me more long term satisfaction than my day job.
| (It has more longevity too.)
|
| My projects can be polished or rough, technically boring or
| complex, and have as little or significant purpose as I want.
|
| They won't be cancelled by changing business needs, rushed by
| deadlines, and corrupted by politics.
| znpy wrote:
| I have my digital garden as a mediawiki-based website which is
| only accessible within my home network (and my vpn).
|
| It runs on a small (yet capable!) computer in the corner of my
| living room.
|
| It's lovely because mediawiki is just great, and I share that
| garden with my SO.
|
| Among the niceties, I have collected the PDF manuals for the
| various appliances that we bought over the years, and there's a
| nice template to embed the pdf into a wiki page. No need for
| wondering where that instruction manual is today.
|
| Taking tech notes works very well too, because mediawiki can
| display math just fine (mathjax and stuff) and can highlight code
| in a decent amount of languages.
|
| Oh, and galleries look beautiful in mediawiki. And the template
| (the Timeless skin) looks nice on mobile too.
|
| The editing experience is nice, now that VisualEditor is built-in
| into MediaWiki.
|
| After two years and a couple hundred pages, it only weighs about
| ~350 megabytes.
|
| I'm thinking about making a public version, as a personal
| website.
|
| Notes:
|
| - i'd love to have the ability to install an equivalent of the
| mobile app for my private wiki.
|
| - the computer is a fujitsu esprimo q520 (core i5-4590T 4c4T,
| 16GB ram, 250gb main ssd + 1tb data ssd + 4TB backup external
| magnetic disk).
| fsiefken wrote:
| I'd would export your mediawiki into zim format and then access
| that one with a mobile client like kiwix
| https://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Mediawiki_offline_content#Ki...
| https://www.kiwix.org/en/download/
| hemmert wrote:
| That is also how I see my side projects. Some things will grow,
| some won't. All good. Enjoy the garden - and the work!
| cinntaile wrote:
| This garden seems to be his job, so it's not quite as free as a
| side project!
| keyle wrote:
| This is a great post.
|
| https://nicolasbouliane.com/blog/motorcycle-maintenance
| favourable wrote:
| It's sometimes interesting to see all the revisions done to a
| blogpost. This is easy to do if the blog is hosted on Github
| Pages (which many blogs are). You can see a diff of each change
| and amendment (they're mostly typos). With a bit of digging you
| can hunt down the Github profile where the blog is hosted and
| have a nose.
| zwkrt wrote:
| My first experience with the term "digital gardening" was in this
| adult swim commercial for "For Profit Online University". In that
| context digital gardeners were basically people given jobs on
| Mechanical Turk. Ive used the term with my friends over the last
| decade to describe any sort of endless digital grind-like toil.
| New crypto games come to mind. (So does Animal Crossing...)
|
| https://youtu.be/XQLdhVpLBVE (Concept is introduced at 6:30, but
| the whole video is hilarious)
| richbell wrote:
| That was also my first thought; I'm having a hard time
| decoupling the OP's thoughtful metaphor from that absurd
| sketch.
| nikodunk wrote:
| Also present in this great piece:
| https://herman.bearblog.dev/my-product-is-my-garden/
| washywashy wrote:
| A sandwich will be mailed to you later
| washywashy wrote:
| Isn't this kind of like Soylent branding. Not sure if that
| shake company name was tongue in cheek or if they didn't know
| there's a Charlton Heston movie called Soylent Green where the
| Soylent refers to the color of the edible substance made from
| humans
| the-printer wrote:
| Are there any self-proclaimed digital farmers on the loose?
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