Have been poking around different options for using #Eleventy for a notes / #DigitalGarden / personal #wiki sort of set up. Have been debating whether to try and cobble together my own set-up or use a template.

`eleventy-bloomz` might be the winner so far: minimally styled, few dependencies, functional backlinks, and a few extra features. Stays close to the basic Eleventy structure, including a minimal blog implementation.

It is meant to function as a WikiBonsai template but I don't see anything specific to that approach that couldn't be easily changed.

https://github.com/wikibonsai/eleventy-bloomz

Would be happy to hear if anyone has a set-up they are particularly happy with.

Resharing this old post where I realised that I didn't have to blog chronologically, and that I can be imperfect with my content.

https://elizabethtai.com/2023/07/06/being-an-imperfect-gardener-of-my-digital-garden/

Updated my now page!

https://travisbriggs.com/now/

As a reminder, a "now" page is like an "about" page, except it tells you what someone is up to *now*. Basically, what you would tell a friend who's in town over coffee.

It's with equal parts pride and trepidation that I introduce my new project:

Seam, a personal wiki system based on Org mode.

https://wiki.plexwave.org/seam

I'm happily tinkering away on my #DigitalGarden which is on Wordpress. I know, the horrors! Not only did I discover it isn't *that* hard to tweak a WP template to fit a digital garden system, it's pretty easy too.
Still got lots to do. I finally switched to a new theme and I'm liking it a lot.

https://elizabethtai.com/

A lot of times the #DigitalGarden scene seems dominated by developers. People who exist in in-between places like me feel a bit frustrated that the tools used - the static site generators - are so unfriendly to non-developer minds.
So, I'm glad that there are some folks who are building digital gardens on #wordpress.
I have plans to use #Obsidian and a plugin - probably either Quartz, Eveloppe or digital garden - to generate my static site one day, but this is a good workaround while I plan the possibly very complicated transition.
I did think about using #Astro but the mechanics of it seem so frightening lol

cc @jenxi I know you did it successfully, but I doubt I'd be able to execute half of what you did!

https://cagrimmett.com/2023/11/09/notes-on-making-a-digital-garden-with-wordpress/

Knowledge Base: Logitech K800 Wireless Illuminated Keyboard

Product material for Logitech K800 Wireless Illuminated Keyboard, including but not limited to product details, documents, FAQ and specifications.

https://kb.adamsdesk.com/hardware/logitech-k800/

Real, good faith question: how the hell are you staying regulated, especially when your job hangs in the balance?

I'm finding myself totally sucked into breaking, fucked up news every few minutes. Then reading hot take after hot take after hot take to help process. This isn't helping anyone.

My nervous system is shot. Deleted safari off my phone. Calling my reps. Spending time on my #digitalgarden and cross stitching. Accepting that we're in a long emergency.

What are you doing?

What a wonderful way to kick off the weekend. I got to geek out about taking notes and publishing a digital garden for an hour with a researcher.

today I worked on this prototype of a etymology fetcher that makes HTTP requests to Wiktionary and integrates the response into the digital garden.

https://gavart.ist/#Etymologies

I had the thought: How cool would it be to have #elisp available within Obsidian...

As it turns out, to some extent this is possible using the Shell Commands plugin to call #emacs with an #elisp script. If the file is modified, Obsidian seamlessly updates to reflect the changes.

I feel like I've just unlocked a whole new set of capability.

https://github.com/Taitava/obsidian-shellcommands

Time for an #AdventOfCode retrospective.

Last month, my Advent of Code journey had three main parts:

1. Solving puzzles with Python
2. Writing explanations
3. Publishing them as a digital garden

And it was a success on all three fronts. 37 stars with puzzle solving, fun with explanation writing and a good first experiment with digital garden that led me to publishing my actual notes this month too.

https://hamatti.org/posts/advent-of-code-2024-retrospective/

A digital garden (or personal wiki) is a collection of published, interconnected notes.

I started publishing a public subset of my personal notes in Garden of Learning as an act of learning in public.

https://hamatti.org/posts/say-hello-to-garden-of-learning/

With an encouraging experience of sharing my Advent of Code solutions in a #DigitalGarden / personal wiki, I started reorganising my personal notes into a format that I can start publishing a public subset of my notes with the world.

It's not without challenges (I'll share those in an upcoming AoC Digital Garden retrospective) but I've already managed to set up tooling to do it and reorganised first ~200 notes to be published.

Anyone here maintain a #digitalGarden? I've been wanting to convert my personal site to a digital garden for years, but haven't found the right tools.

I want something that allows me to primarily publish my markdown notes, but also occasionally publish a full page html page. It'll most likely be a split screen map that compares a georeferenced archival photo with satellite imagery today.

#Obsidian publish comes close to what I want, but it's slightly too expensive, and isn't multilingual.

My links page now has 1,000+ links!!

Inspired by knowledge sharing, infodumping, and celebrating others' work, I've organised and uploaded 1,000+ entries across 19 categories! (Some still need organising though).

My rationale for this is best summed up by Melon King: https://thoughts.melonking.net/thoughts/every-site-needs-a-links-page-why-linking-matters

Can't wait to find more links to cool stuff that you'd never know existed that you just can't find at the top of Google's results.

(CW: Fast-motion video)

É bem possível que você tenha colocado a mão na testa e pensado “Mas a blogosfera acabou faz anos!!”. Pode manter a mão na testa, mas sugiro ler mais umas linhas antes!

Primeiro que nada impede que as coisas voltem, não é? Principalmente em um momento em que os lugares onde as pessoas vinham blogando estão bostificados.

“Quem vinha blogando?”(viu pq sugeri manter a mão na testa?). […]

https://www.memedecarbono.com.br/sociedade_cibernetica/social_media/jardins-digitais-um-novo-paradigma-para-a-blogosfera/

It's the second day of me publishing my digital garden and I'm already worrying about link rot.

For a notes system / personal knowledge base, flexibility is integral: I'm constantly reorganizing and renaming my notes as I learn more and as clusters of notes gain importance.

But when those notes are published online, I'm worried about ending up with tons of link rot (or a massive maintenance headache with redirects).

Has anyone figured out a good solution for this?

I’m trying to think about how to structure my projects in my notes system (currently using Obsidian) - right now I’ve just got them as files in the root folder along with everything else, but I feel like I’ll start to lose projects and then dive too deep into Dataview queries to find what I need.

Anyone got something that works for them well they’d love to share? I’d also love to see what your project notes look like in general (if you take them)!