Welcome to My Digital Garden
Hey, my name is Alex. Welcome to my digital garden. I am passionate about learning and sharing knowledge. I enjoy reading, writing, taking photographs, playing the guitar, playing chess, watching films, travelling, studying, and discovering new things.
Purpose
In this space, I aim to compile some of my thoughts and ideas along with the knowledge I find significant. I have decided to organise the information into three main categories:
- Knowledge: This section is dedicated to facts, highlights from books, locations, buildings, or anything else I deem important to gather in one place, which may prove useful to store. For instance, I have a fascination with symbolism in literature and recognise the value in compiling references to a single symbol from various sources to gain a deeper understanding of the author's intent.
- Workshop: Here, I will include tips, ideas, tutorials, schedules, and documentation.
- Creations: This section showcases completed projects, such as novels, photographs, blog posts, and articles. It’s something personal and whole.
About
This is a personal website organized around the metaphor of a dacha — a digital garden where ideas grow at their own pace.
Content is organized by growth stage rather than publication date:
- Seedling — early fragments and half-formed thoughts, kept warm until ready
- Budding — ideas being actively worked on and tended
- Evergreen — mature, well-developed writing
The home feed shows everything in one place, filterable by tags, zone, and stage. The Workshop houses tools I've built.
Why dacha?
The metaphor maps well to how content actually works. A dacha has different spaces for different purposes — a veranda for reading, a garden for active work, a greenhouse for fragile seedlings, a cellar for archives. The zones exist as categories, and content moves between stages as it grows.
On permanence
URLs here will not change after publication. If something is linked, it stays linked. Broken links are a failure of stewardship.
Contact
Build something. Write to me when you do.