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.[1]
my main domain is https://yone.house. it's so nice to give my house a garden 🏡.
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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 hosted and published with GitHub Pages.[2]
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 the 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.[3]
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", local webrings 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.[4]
click the "one way" or "another way" links to navigate either direction on the relatively intentional ring i've chosen, or browse the map and directory in each gardening home page to see what to choose from. the emoji link in the middle of the ways brings you back to the gardening's homepage, and this main homepage is titled "🏡" in those directories.
if you are able, i recommend checking out the global map 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
garden illustration by Lois Ehlert in Growing Vegetable Soup, paper cutout by me :-) ↩︎
the official plugin recommendation is Vercel, which i originally used, but their CEO loves Netanyahu plus the company primarily does spooky AI stuff, and so now i deploy to GitHub Pages instead (with some 11ty modification), which seems... better? doing anything even moderately ethically on the internet is really hard. ↩︎
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. ↩︎