Digital Garden: Connected Thoughts
Welcome to my Digital Garden. Unlike a traditional stream-based blog where articles are static and ordered purely by date, a digital garden is an evolving web of interconnected notes at various stages of maturity.
Ideas in this space grow organically:
- 🌱 Seedling: Initial thoughts, sparks, and rough working notes.
- 🌿 Budding: Developing concepts that have been revised with references and examples.
- 🌲 Evergreen: Mature, well-structured insights written to stand the test of time.
Core Explorations
- Abstractions Should Hide Complexity: Why deep interfaces minimize cognitive overhead.
- Complexity Grows Automatically: Systems naturally degrade unless actively simplified.
- Good Names Are Cheap Documentation: Naming is the highest ROI design activity in codebases.
- Preventing Goroutine Leaks: Practical patterns for managing concurrent worker lifecycles.
For a deep dive into the philosophy behind this approach, see Andy Matuschak’s evergreen notes and the source code of this site. The concept of a “second brain” was also covered by Tiago Forte’s Building a Second Brain and in this explainer video:
And a short thread worth reading:
All Notes & Ideas
🌲 Evergreen Notes(3)
How Breath's private notes work and how to protect them with HTTP Basic Auth on Cloudflare Pages
A good abstraction encapsulates difficult details behind a simple, intuitive surface.
Entropy is the default state of any evolving codebase. Keeping systems simple requires deliberate pruning.
🌿 Budding Ideas(1)
Common leak patterns in Go concurrency and how to audit them with tooling.
🌱 Seedling Thoughts(1)
Precise naming aligns code with mental models and eliminates the need for redundant comments.