A roundup of interesting content I stumbled on recently.

1. A digital garden on WordPress
2. Ghostly encounters: The legacy of the 2011 tsunami in Japan
3. The anti-Linkedin post
4. If most content on the Internet is cruft, how do we find the original stuff?
5. Cool software discoveries
6. Magpies building a nest in a tiny balcony in China
7. Think before you click.
8. “My neck hurts”

A digital garden on WordPress

Notes on making a digital garden on WordPress

A lot of times the Digital Garden scene seems dominated by developers. People who exist in in-between places like me feel a bit frustrated that the tools used – the static site generators – are so unfriendly to non-developer minds.

So, I’m glad that there are some folks who are building digital gardens on WordPress.

I have plans to use Obsidian and a plugin – probably either Quartz, Eveloppe or digital garden – to generate my static site one day, but this is a good workaround while I plan the possibly very complicated transition.

I did think about using Astro but the mechanics of it seem so frightening.

Ghostly encounters: The legacy of the 2011 tsunami in Japan

Do I believe in ghosts? I mean, I lived in a haunted house, so…

The anti-Linkedin post

I’m happy to announce my retirement from UX.

Wonder if this guy wants more publicity, but I really appreciated his very, very honest LinkedIn post about retiring from UX. Had a look at his profile, and it looks like he made the transition from teaching to UX, not the easiest transition to make. And definitely not easy to leave due to the sunk cost-ness of it all.

If most content on the Internet is cruft, how do we find the original stuff?

“We’re about to drown in a sea of pedestrian takes. An explosion of noise that will drown out any signal. Goodbye to finding original human insights or authentic connections under that pile of cruft.” – The dark forest and generative AI

Cool software discoveries

• Obsidian’s digital garden community plug-in – publish your vault online free: https://dg-docs.ole.dev/
• Obsidian’s Mastodon threading plug-in – Share posts from your Obsidian vault to Mastodon.

Magpies building a nest in a tiny balcony in China

Video on xiaohongshu has been taken down, sadly, but it’s here on my Mastodon post.

If you’re wondering why the balcony is so tiny, if they’re anything like Malaysia (and I find many apartments in China very much like ours), it’s meant for the air conditioning compressor:

Think before you click.

“The point: there is so much content on the internet that makes us feel crappy without offering any actual information that can help you make the world a better place. When I’m taking good care of myself, I’m actively working to ignore such garbage.” – Justin Pot in his article, Think before you click

How I approach Malaysian political news, really. Heck, even world news these days.

“My neck hurts”

Sometimes we have to remind ourselves that while our life may suck, it may not suck as badly as an NPC’s.