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Maggie Appleton details the history of digital gardens and what it represents in this article. Here are some stand-out points from the article that are relevant to how I use the term in the context of this website:

• It’s a different way of thinking about our online behaviour around information - one that accumulates personal knowledge over time in an explorable space.
• Digital gardening is part of the pushback against the limited range of vanilla web formats and layouts we now take for granted.
• Gardens are never finished, they’re constantly growing, evolving, and changing. Just like a real soil, carrot, and cabbage garden.
• ...editability is one of the main selling points of the web. Gardens lean into this – there is no “final version” on a garden. What you publish is always open to revision and expansion.
• In performance-blog-land you do that thinking and researching privately, then shove it out at the final moment. A grand flourish that hides the process. In garden-land, that process of researching and refining happens on the open internet. You post ideas while they’re still “seedlings,” and tend them regularly until they’re fully grown, respectable opinions.
• Gardens involve experimenting with the native languages of the web – HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. They’re the most flexible and robust tools we have for building interconnected knowledge online. Gardens are a chance to question the established norms of a ‘personal website’, and make space for weirder, wilder experiments.
• Gardens offer us the ability to present ourselves in forms that aren’t cookie cutter profiles. They’re the higher-fidelity version, complete with quirks, contradictions, and complexity.
• Low friction and deep contextualization

I started this website to learn how to code! Mostly just a place for personal "projects" about things that interest me!

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