About This Site

This is not a blog! Blogs tend to be very linear. The author writes an article and then moves on, never to look at it again. That works great for news articles. We want to know what was known at that moment in time. A new article will be written with new news if that seems appropriate. Good news articles have a publication date. On the other hand, many technical blogs are problematic. Many are written with a goal of being timeless passive content, and maybe passive revenue generators, and lack essential context like publication dates, software dependency versions, etc. It is also very hard to get any technical presentation right the first time so you can file it with certainty.

This site is my take on a digital garden. A place where you plant ideas and nurture them until ripe. In most of life but especially technology, change is constant. My goal is to keep discussions current to the best of my ability and to be clear about context. I hate landing on a page looking for a solution only to discover the hard way that it has solutions to a problem that still exist but where the specific solution only applies to old software version.

Here is Google's description of Digital Gardens.

Here is the open source application that I use to maintain and publish the site.