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Digital Gardening
- noemu 4y agoCuriously, I see digital garden speak from people using tools like Obsidian or Logseq. Instead of knowledge graphs, I propose knowledge gardens.
- hemmert 4y agoThat is also how I see my side projects. Some things will grow, some won’t. All good. Enjoy the garden - and the work!
- cinntaile 4y agoThis garden seems to be his job, so it's not quite as free as a side project!
- nicbou 4y agoIt started as a work of love and remained that way. The transition to living from it makes a big difference, even if you want to pretend it doesn't. However it's been so steady that I can afford puttering around and feel secure that the bills will get paid. I can also tell advertisers to shove it, a rare privilege.
- favourable 4y agoIt'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.
- kornhole 4y agoIt 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.
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- znpy 4y agoI 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 4y agoI'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#Kiwix https://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Mediawiki_offline_content#Ki... https://www.kiwix.org/en/download/ https://www.kiwix.org/en/download/
- znpy 4y agoFor reading the usual theme is fine.. the problem is editing. I’d like to be able to edit on mobile too, but in a comfortable manner.
- grimgrin 4y agoSimilarly: "My product is my garden" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26012189 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26012189 "My blog is a digital garden" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22876273 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22876273
- colordrops 4y agoThis is how I treat my NixOS config repo.
- mush_room 4y agoI'm always up for checking a well-kept garden, care to share?
- colordrops 4y agoUnfortunately there is no DM capability on HN, otherwise I'd share it. Prefer to stay anonymous on here.
- mush_room 4y agoUnderstood! 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 ;-).
- DonHopkins 4y agoVegan Devops: Treat servers like crops, not gardens.
- larrymyers 4y agoI 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.
- nicbou 4y agoThe important part is to make that space truely personal. The first versions of my personal website were tame online resumes. This one is deliberately more personal, less refined.
- lukasfischer 4y agoWe 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 4y agoI've just come to conclusion I need a composter in the corner. Too much half-done stuff.
- galfarragem 4y agoFeel 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 https://github.com/slowernews/notebook
- zuzuleinen 4y agohttps://www.andreiboar.com/ https://www.andreiboar.com/ Mainly writing about Software and Programming in Golang
- fsiefken 4y agomy garden - https://olin.monster/ https://olin.monster/
- bsnnkv 4y agoMy garden - https://notado.app https://notado.app
- obviyus 4y agoHere’s mine (just finished a landscaping project!): https://obviy.us https://obviy.us
- nikivi 4y agoHere's mine https://wiki.nikiv.dev https://wiki.nikiv.dev Code here: https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/knowledge https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/knowledge
- zwkrt 4y agoMy 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 https://youtu.be/XQLdhVpLBVE (Concept is introduced at 6:30, but the whole video is hilarious)
- washywashy 4y agoIsn’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
- nikodunk 4y agoAlso present in this great piece: https://herman.bearblog.dev/my-product-is-my-garden/ https://herman.bearblog.dev/my-product-is-my-garden/
- richbell 4y agoThat was also my first thought; I'm having a hard time decoupling the OP's thoughtful metaphor from that absurd sketch.
- washywashy 4y agoA sandwich will be mailed to you later
- blt 4y agoDigital gardening is a meaningful task!
- FridgeSeal 4y agoI’m not afraid of H.O.W.A.RD.
- Borrible 4y ago"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-believed-that-plants-offer-us-inspiration-for-living https://aeon.co/videos/amid-the-chaos-of-being-nietzsche-bel...
- the-printer 4y agoAre there any self-proclaimed digital farmers on the loose?
- nicbou 4y agoThere's a big list under another comment. Each website posted is fascinating
- rietta 4y agoI love this. Having operated https://rietta.com 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”.
- iancmceachern 4y agoHere's mine: https://www.iancollmceachern.com/blog https://www.iancollmceachern.com/blog
- keyle 4y agoThis is a great post. https://nicolasbouliane.com/blog/motorcycle-maintenance https://nicolasbouliane.com/blog/motorcycle-maintenance
- ge96 4y agoMine is not public but I keep recreating note taking apps and messing around with finances (helps me feel more at ease about my life). I feel like it's pointless to keep remaking the same thing... doesn't seem like you're advancing. In my case cross-platform variations of CRUD apps. It is nice though being able to make a tool for yourself.
- scruple 4y agoI have written the same file parser over a dozen times. It's my default project when learning a new language. Sometimes, newer solutions to different parts of the parser, having been discovered in the new language, find their way into the older versions. I don't know if this qualifies as "gardening" but I've really enjoyed this experience because I can easily see growth. But maybe it really is pointless.
- ge96 4y agoI am trying to figure out a more robust data store than just local MySQL on my Pi. I have encrypted data store on remote severs (by pass key/active login not RDS). But gotta deal with syncing... Unrelated ranting Also trying to think of ways to quickly write/access it any time. From other devices besides phones/computers seems pointless but yeah integrated into body somehow. Future. Low res display on clothes. Conductive skin wrap. Wifi power harvesting posters. Projected keyboard grid these were cool. Vibration qwerty from bracelet. Vibrations felt from the desk. Doesn't make sense you need some way to see till Mojo contact is cheap, contacts suck though to put in/take out. Hehe projected compute. You mount a projector on your ceiling, rotating mount has audio listener. Snap your finger, it goes to you, projects display on nearby space (cam), type on your legs by vibration and tap wall for mouse click. Also pointless why.
- rapnie 4y agoWhat software would you recommend to maintain a 'community garden', collectively with others? Where the tech isn't in-your-face and leaves room to be creative together, stimulating people to contribute. Of course, this could be any forum or collaboration software combined with good old community-building, but maybe there's software that particularly fits this 'gardening' idea.
- nicbou 4y agoThis is entirely up to you. Simple is better. However the stack itself is part of the garden. I enjoy overengineering mine as much as I enjoy publishing things on it.
- antics9 4y agoThat is a great metaphor. I find it very calming to tend to my website[0]. The operating system is the soil and the html-pages the green stuff. [0] https://chai.guru/www https://chai.guru/www