Jonathan Dowland: Digital gardening

I was reading a post on Alex Chan’s
website¹ that referenced the concept of
digital gardens,
a concept/analogy for organising information which dates back to the 90s.
This old concept is getting new traction today by contrasting the approach
with “endless stream” as used and abused by social media, but also how blogs
are typically presented.

This site, my homepage, has a blog, and that’s the bit that most people who
interact with the site will experience. Partly, because it’s the bit that gets
syndicated out: via feeds; on Planet
Debian and downstream from it; once upon a time on
Twitter; nowadays on the Fediverse.

However there’s more to my homepage than that. The rest of it may be of little
interest to anyone beside me, but it’s useful to me, at least. So I may switch
focus a little bit from mainly writing blog posts, and tend to the rest of the
garden a bit more.

Some recent seeding and pruning:
Recently my guest status at Newcastle University came up for renewal, so I
wrote down my goals in the Historic Computing Committee for the next year or
so, and put them here: nuhcc. I’ve also been pondering what I’m up to in
Debian at the moment, so took some time to add my current projects to
that page.