🌿 Welcome to myles' garden!
👋🏼 Hey! I'm Myles Braithwaite and I have been alive for 39 years, 2 weeks, 9 hours, and 5 minutes! This is my garden of ideas. A collection of thoughts, photos, and things I love.
📰 Recent articles
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Building a Calendar Interface in Astro
I wanted my website to have a clean, static calendar interface to showcase all my RSVP posts. At first, I considered using FullCalendar, an excellent package, but a bit too heavy for my needs. I wanted something that rendered at build time, without extra client-side scripting. Building a lightweight calendar in Astro with date-fns was surprisingly straightforward.
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JSONFeed in Astro with @astrojs/rss
I wanted this website to publish both an RSS feed and a JSONFeed. The catch: I didn’t want to maintain two separate feed pipelines.
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Broadacre City — Frank Lloyd Wright's Utopia Dystopia
Democracy… we have started toward a new integration—to an integration along the horizontal line which we call the great highway.
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Icebergs can get stuck on underwater mountains
The current largest iceberg, A-23A, is currently spinning in place on top of an underwater mountain:
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📝 Recent notes
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Finally finished Hollow Knight, now on to Silksong.
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Alexandra Ciufudean explores the IndieWeb, where people’s personal websites are pushing back against the corporate internet.
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I don’t appreciate Duolingo’s pro-horse agenda.
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Conservationist Matt Somerville has spent 14 years building log hives across England to give wild honey bees safe, low-intervention homes.
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💅 Nails Painted With Black Onyx
Left Hand
Black Onyx Little finger on left hand
Black Onyx Ring finger on left hand
Black Onyx Middle finger on left hand
Black Onyx Index finger on left hand
Black Onyx Thumb finger on left hand
Right Hand
Black Onyx Little finger on right hand
Black Onyx Ring finger on right hand
Black Onyx Middle finger on right hand
Black Onyx Index finger on right hand
Black Onyx Thumb finger on right hand
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