Why I wanted to start a Digital Garden
A digital garden is like pre-modern internet (as in internet years, that is). The days that Snowflake (sorry, if I say his name I think the gov will be eyeing my site) talked about when the internet had the freedom to do anything. Sure, it didn’t look pretty, but the websites then were functional and mirrored why computers and the internet were invented in the first-place: to problem-solve, creativity, and (input here) to join in “combining communication and computing”, that quote comes from one of the first guys to invent the internet, one of the early websites.
I discuss this more in a deep dive where I make notes on the book Innovation by Walter Isaacson, just because I’m curious. I’ll be updating this deep dive, Early Computing, over time. As a second brain. Also I’ve always loved rabbit holes, to go from one topic to the next and link them together, that’s what’s so cool about the Obsidian graph. While it gives me information overload to go through others, and perhaps writing several ideas at once for my own, it’s a way to connect everything together instead of understanding only bits & pieces of the world. This also serves as a reference to myself as a reminder of my growth when older.
Where I write these
There’s plenty of options to write a simple text file (well, .md actually), and that’s in Obsidian itself. (Image)
The perks is that I can edit the appearance (Terminal theme) and write naturally. The downside is that when I try to add HTML like p (I ain’t gonna mess up my doc today), even though Obsidian displays the code like a code editor, any # that are used to make headings get messed up. In the image above shows what my Obsidian looks like for writing, because I use ML4W dotfiles w/ Arch Linux OS and typing the command “grimblast save area “name” ” in a different window, the unused window being screenshotted looks faded and shows my desktop wallpaper, so that’s why it looks a lil’ weird.
Coding setup
The day I chose Neovim was the day I felt smart. Ok not exactly, in fact I felt very dumb when beginning to use it until I used (Escape button) :w command to write the file in more than half the time unlike Nano (Ctrl+what?). (image)