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i'm Yone, and i am bad at gardening and keeping plants alive. however, i am good at collecting images and texts and sounds and am sort of ok at keeping them alive. this is a digital garden to tend to them.
my main domain is https://yone.house. it's so nice to give my house a garden.
⇩ jump to main garden content ⇩
photograph of a small ginkgo tree backlit in a window.
my dearly beloved window ginkgo is my only real plant success so far.
the soil
this garden draws from a collection of Markdown documents in Obsidian, wrapped up in the Obsidian Digital Garden plugin created by oleeskild. this site is a public GitHub repository deployed with GitHub Pages.[1]
the roots
the thought about this being a "digital garden" made me think about ecosystems, which made me think about webrings, which are a beautiful things i encountered via surfing the early queer internet on wayback machine. they are a lovely example of the personal interactions & connections the early internet fostered, and they still exist in some online communities.
i love their structure, however if i understand it correctly, i think they would be better characterized as biomes rather than ecosystems. biomes are broader, just simply a themed collection and not necessarily an intermingling network.[2]
A biome (/ˈbaɪ.oʊm/]) is a distinct geographical region with specific climate, vegetation, and animal life. It consists of a biological community that has formed in response to its physical environment and regional climate.
i like this definition for organizing collections of stuff.
the plants
for now, this site is built as a collection of "gardenings", some kind of local webring in my digital garden. each is a geographical region of pages in this site, distinguished by a kind of specific climate, vegetation, and animal life.[3]
click the "next page" or "previous page" links to navigate the pages in a relatively intentional bi-directional ring i've chosen, or browse the graph and directory in each gardening home page to see what to choose from. this homepage is titled "🏡" in those directories.
if you can, check out the global graph at the bottom of every page by clicking the globe icon in the graph pane. you can see & explore & drag around the entire structure of this garden and its paths (it might require a little untangling to make sense).
please enjoy exploring (◡‿◡*)
Gardenings
the official plugin recommendation is Vercel, which i originally used, but their CEO recently met with Netanyahu to discuss "AI education" plus the company primarily does spooky AI stuff, and so i swiftly moved off it to Cloudflare, which i then learned has datacenters in israel and provides the gov't with network security, and now i think i have figured out how do deploy to GitHub Pages instead, which seems... better? doing anything even moderately ethically on the internet is really hard. [UPDATE: i learned that GitHub has contracts with ICE and i am not sure what to do now. open to suggestions.] ↩︎
i might not understand all this correctly. this might not make any sense. my knowledge of biomes mostly comes from extensive playing of Zoo Tycoon 1 & 2 in childhood. ↩︎
i will think about what physical environment and regional climate has formed each gardening and get back to you. there is certainly a connection there. ↩︎