About

Modern blogs, in which all the texts are to be perputal and displayed chronologically, are not the original personal web spaces. Before there was a myriad of pages that were individually curated, without the constraints that current site-building tools or software impose. Granted, those tools have democratized the space, making it available to anyone with an internet connection. But they have also standardized what used to be a diverse collection of pages (many just lists of hyperlinks), each with a unique structure, layout or taste where the creator personality could truly shine.

The idea of a digital garden is an alternative to blogging. It’s a curated small site where your thoughts and ideas can blossom. The term “digital garden” is not well-defined, but its history is well detailed by Maggie Appleton on her website. Tom Critchlow's essay on digital streams, campfires and gardens is also a great read on this same subject.

I decided I wanted one of these gardens.

However, the idea of posting small thoughts organized chronologically is still appealing to me. It’s simple, low-cost, and leaves a permanent record that we can always revisit later. I don’t want to abandon that entirely. But having another, larger corpus of texts that can evolve and change guilt-free or “edited on” footnotes is important to me. I aim for this to be a true repository of what I think or feel now.

This is my attempt at that. It’s public, not publicized (yet?), but is not secret. If you found it and like something about it then send me a note. If you don’t like it then go look for something else and don’t leave me a note.

English is not my mother language so it won’t be perfect and there might be stuff written in other languages as well. That’s just how my mind works. If you don’t like then merde difficile.

In the end, this was long text to try justify what in the end are just a bunch of ramblings.

rambling
/ˈramblɪŋ,ˈrambəlɪŋ/
adjective
  . (of writing or speech) lengthy and confused or inconsequential.