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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 text 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. it is a public GitHub repository deployed with GitHub Pages.[1]
i am using the LaTeX community theme for fun, because i miss writing proofs in LaTeX, but i've added a bunch of custom CSS so it's not really close at all to the original.
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.
these pages do intermingle a bit, though.
the plants
this site is built as a collection of "gardenings", a local webring in my digital garden. each is a themed collection of webpages 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 circular order i've chosen, or browse the graph and directory in each gardening home page to see what to choose from.
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 just 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. ↩︎
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. ↩︎