About the Garden
The garden is the back of nshidai.com. Home displays finished work — essays that are written, revised, and ready to be cited; the garden grows the process — ideas, drafts, judgments not yet verified. It follows the digital-garden tradition: a note isn't final the moment it's published; like a plant, it's tended, ripened, and pruned again and again.
Growth-stage legend
- 🌱 Seed: a freshly planted idea, maybe only three sentences. Rough is allowed; being overturned later is allowed.
- 🌿 Sprout: has a skeleton, the argument is growing, still short on evidence or examples.
- 🌲 Evergreen: relatively stable and worth citing, but still pruned as practice continues.
Every note is stamped with two dates — Planted and Tended — and most carry a line about confidence, telling you how far the judgment has been tested against practice.
How to read
The garden has no timeline. Three ways to wander: enter a topic you care about from the topic maps; follow the "backlinks" in the body and the "notes that link here" at the foot of each page; or just hit "Wander" on the home page.
Planting principles
- Publish at 60% done. A seed can be just three sentences.
- Process in the garden, finished work in the front store: once ripened, a garden note is distilled into an essay on the main site, and the two link to each other.
- Tend weekly: plant two or three new seeds, add a backlink or two to old notes, prune one old note.
- Label honestly: the "last tended" date in the footer is both a feature and a public form of self-accountability.
Technical notes
This garden is built with Astro and deployed on Cloudflare Pages; notes are written in Obsidian,
marked publish: true, and synced live by a script; search runs on Pagefind, with no
tracking scripts of any kind. Wikilinks are checked at build time and a dead link fails the
build — that's the garden's baseline for staying weed-free.
Three rooms of the same person: Home (essays & collaboration), Tools (small web tools), garden (here).