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Setting up your own digital garden with evergreen connected notes is a great way to learn in public and to cultivate your curiosity.

How to build a digital garden without touching code

Resources, links, projects, and ideas for gardeners tending their digital notes on the public interwebs - GitHub - MaggieAppleton/digital-gardeners: Resources, links, projects, and ideas for garden...

This is my attempt to explicitly define a not-legally-binding "terms of service" for people who peruse Digital Gardens, and the people who Learn in Public with them.

Building personal learning environments across the different time horizons of information consumption

I first got online in 1993, back when the Web had a capital letter — three, in fact — and long before irony stretched its legs and unbuttoned its flan

pMeta page describing Gwern.net site ideals of stable long-term essays which improve over time; idea sources and writing methodology; metadata definitions; site statistics; copyright license./p

This is my bag of tricks — loose notes, design patterns, rules-of-thumb, tools, cheatsheets, gimmicks, leverage points, descriptions of systems, key questions, risks, and unknowns.

Exploring ways to build social infrastructure around books and reading on the open web

How I built myself a simple wiki using folders and files and published via Jekyll

It seems blogrolls are making a comeback. I didn't have one the last time around they were a thing. This is exciting — here's mine! 😀 Each blog listed has

We were magicians and the web was our magic

Everyone wants to be like Steve Jobs and his powerhouse company. It’s not as easy as it looks.

Siri and Apple's use of AI has been severely held back by caution and organizational dysfunction, according to over three dozen former Apple...

pTo deny the importance of vulgarity is to reject the revolutionary tradition…/p

"Hokay. So. Here's the earth..." If you were on the Internet in the early aughts, you probably already know exactly where the above sentence comes from. It's the first line from "The End of the World," the zany 12-year-old animation that depicts an…

At the apex of the New Balance line-up is the 99x series. And standing at the summit of that numerically erratic sneaker monolith is the 997.

On the road in rural Wisconsin, the author knocks on the doors of houses that bear the darkest American symbols and flags, behind them finding guns, ammo, and a modern philosophy of civil war

Despite growing pushback to Facebook's metaverse pivot, Zuckerberg structured his company so that it's nearly impossible for him to be ousted.

How to text, tip, ghost, host, and generally exist in polite society today.

Nothing fuels online discourse like fights over language. New terms will popularize in a subculture then trickle into the zeitgeist until…

Remember when "epic bacon" was the height of comedy?

Establishments like Untitled are becoming more serious, and sophisticated, about acoustics and noise reduction.

Art often draws inspiration from life — but what happens when it’s your life? Inside the curious case of Dawn Dorland v. Sonya Larson.

Mathematics on creating the group's iconic logo and producing its latest album.

Just Blaze says he made the beat for "Public Service Announcement" in 10 minutes, shortly after "The Black Album" was handed in.

One of the strange things about the reaction to the invasion of the Capitol was how few of those dismayed by it...