🌱 Digital Garden

Notes on the Bermuda National Library in Hamilton, its reading challenges like Book Bingo, and monthly silent reading meetups.

A running list of free stock image sites I recommend, including Unsplash, Pexels, Pixabay, Gratisography, Freepik and more, for 2026.

A collection of frustrating developer problems with surprisingly simple solutions, shared so other people do not get caught out the same way.

Why an iframe can render with a white or dark background instead of transparent when the color-scheme differs between parent and child pages.

A place to collect small, useful code snippets worth remembering, both for my future self and for anyone else who stumbles across them online.

Svelte is my favorite web framework, and its SvelteKit meta framework makes building full, modern, fast web applications a genuine pleasure.

A tiny .zed/settings.json snippet that makes the Zed editor use the Tailwind language server for CSS files in Tailwind 4+ projects.

Welcome to my digital garden, a space for interconnected thoughts on TTRPGs, reading, audiobooks, software development, Svelte and more.

Astro is a content-focused site generator with React-like syntax that supports embedding Svelte and other frameworks, and now handles SSR.

ChatGPT on macOS can record up to two hours of audio and produce a transcript and summary, which is useful for getting feedback on presentations.

Server side rendering is the concept of dynamically generating a request HTML on the server before delivering it to the users web browser.

Notes on using TOML for markdown frontmatter instead of YAML, including the spec, libraries, and site generators that support it natively.

An intro to role-playing games I am running at the Bermuda Library in September 2025, refined with help from the ChatGPT macOS Record mode.

Backstories is a mobile-first, series-focused book tracking app designed for high-volume readers—especially audiobook and indie fans—who want to ditch social features and focus on what they’ve read, what’s next, and when. It streamlines personal library management, tracks series progress and upcoming releases, and supports metadata capture from Audible, Amazon, and Goodreads CSV exports.

A short rant about fantasy words people keep mispronouncing, such as ichor, chitin, chthonic and chasm, along with their Greek origins.

Tabletop role-playing games are collaborative, GM-led story games with roots in D and D that have been a hobby of mine for about five years.

LitRPG is a progression fantasy sub-genre featuring character stats borrowed from tabletop and video RPGs, and one of my favorite genres to read.

A long-planned personal book tracking app I want to build, now shaped into a concrete plan called Backstories with help from Claude.

Why and how I built my own digital garden with Astro, Claude, and TOML frontmatter, after years of exploring PKM tools and approaches.

Claude is an AI chat assistant from Anthropic that I rely on for coding and software development tasks across many of my projects.

LogSeq is an outliner-oriented personal knowledge management tool that I have been using regularly since around May 2021 for daily notes.

Personal Knowledge Management, popularized by tools like Obsidian, Roam and Notion, with LogSeq being my long-time daily driver for several years.