Digital Garden of Travis Briggs

Anki is an open source program for viewing and drilling flashcards.

I've struggled against Reverse Chronological Order, but I've still found myself replicating it in my collection of previously published blog posts.

I'm trying desperately to resist the urge to write this entire website as a choose-your-own adventure game.

Honestly, Spanish is by far the most useful language I could end up learning, seeing as I live in the San Francisco Mission District.

In software development, there is the concept of "code coverage".

I have a friend named Christian, who was in my wedding party, and who I worked with at Qwobl back in like 2008.

For billions of people around the world, YouTube is a source of entertainment, education, hand-wringing about policy and politics, a celebrity maker, and so much more.

Draft was an online, distraction free, writing tool that shut down at the end of December 2022.

If you read the Taper 12 about page, you will find that submissions for Taper #13 are due Sept 13 2024, approximately two weeks from the time of this writing.

Update: comments are working great!

Reverse is the curse!

Considering how bands are like sports teams, it's clear that not every part of a song has to be perfect for it to be a good song.

Bandcamp Band website Spotify YouTube Danger Third Rail is the name of my "band".

When I first started reading about Digital Gardens, I quickly came to the conclusion that I wanted one for myself.

Ableton Live is music production software that serves as a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW).

In case you didn't know ActivityPub is the open protocol (W3C recommendation) that powers Mastodon.

For at least a year, I didn't have any comments on my digital garden, which is of course counter to the principle that digital gardens allow and respond to feedback.

Test post, plz ignore

I have recently added comments to this garden.

I think Github is great, I love it.

While I have used Bandcamp as both a music publisher and music consumer, I don't really have the fanatical attachment to it that I see from some corners of the internet.

I guess if this is my "digital garden" then these posts are like potted plants that were already grown that have been moved to the rockier parts of the garden landscape.

Gemini is a new protocol for the internet.

As the founding, primary, and only member of Danger Third Rail, these are my opinions on motivation for writing and producing music for the project.

I suppose if I announce a new Danger Third Rail project on a blog site, and then post that to Mastodon, it's not going to make a very big splash.

You might have heard of the so-called Seinfeld Strategy for sticking to something and building a habit.

Today I learned about the organization Natives In Tech and their websites (1, 2) about the naming of the Apache Software Foundation.

Part of the goal of starting a digital garden was to recognize that things like my writing, my learning, my full digital creative output are not ever finished and don't come out necessarily in neat little packages that warrant a "blog post".

Digital Garden of Travis Briggs Approach the garden What is a digital garden?

Even when I just now introduced a few friends of mine to my garden and the concept of digital gardening, one of my friends said "Oh so it's a throwback to old personal websites".

I'm definitely a person who has a preference for the "new and shiny".

The main reference article I've been linking to is Shawn Wang's "Learn In Public".

I think that everyone who publishes on the internet wants attention, but not too much attention.

Shawn Wang lists Epistemic Disclosure as one of the foundation principles of a digital garden, thus invoking the philosophical field of Epistemology.

This is my attempt to distill and repeat what I consider to be the most important principles of digital gardening.

Every time I get the feeling like I should blog something, I usually realize that it would do just as well to shout into Mastodon (my masto instance).

I never really blogged much when it was popular, in the 2000s.

Qwobl was the smallest startup I ever worked for, and I've worked for a lot of startups.

Javascript is the most popular programming language in the world.

WP 1.0 is a project on Wikipedia that I have spent the last 5 years working on, with various amounts of effort at various times.

Python has a great Exception handling system.

https://distrokid.com

https://fiverr.com

I am an atheist.

Mastodon is not Twitter.

A Javascript library for rendering Markdown files in the Gemini .gmi format.

I'm not sure if I'm actually depressed.

I've read Stephen King's book On Writing, and it's pretty interesting.

I wrote last year about how I was planning on giving up on New Year's resolutions.

Some bands/songs/albums seem unattainable.