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🌿 Welcome to myles' garden!

👋🏼 Hey! I'm myles braithwaite and I have been alive for 39 years, 37 weeks, 1 day, 12 hours, and 59 minutes! This is my garden of ideas. A collection of thoughts, photos, and things I love.

📷 Recent photos

Two painted canvases leaning against a graffiti-covered brick wall in a dim alley at night. The larger central canvas is a black ink-and-charcoal drawing on a cream ground: elongated, sketchy human profiles and faces, with one figure in a coat holding a cigarette near a tiny orange figure perched on the hand. Below the image it's titled "BIDDING WAR," dated "2 JUNE 2026," and signed "GRAF ALLEY" with a heart and an artist's signature. A smaller canvas to the left, in the same scratchy style, shows two faces and reads "SOLVE & RASOLUTE." Behind them the wall is covered in red, teal, and grey graffiti, including a snarling wolf and the word "RASCAL" in red. On the concrete in the foreground, handwriting reads "LIFE & DEATH ARE THINGS YOU JUST DO WHEN YOU'RE BORED," and beside a small sketch, "YOU CAN'T TAKE THIS ONE" with an arrow.

2 Jun, 2026

A hand-lettered cardboard sign staked into a grassy curb strip. The top reads "DOG LIBRARY" in colored block capitals; beneath it, smaller handwritten text says "TAKE A STICK / LEAVE A STICK (OPTIONAL)." A few sticks lie scattered in the grass below the sign. A sidewalk runs along the left, and a young staked tree sits in a mulch bed to the right.

2 Jun, 2026

📰 Recent Articles

  • The Stuff That Stuck in 2025

    Not a definitive list, just the books and movies that followed me out of the room in 2025.

    13 Jan, 2026 at 9:00 AM

  • Annual Prologue: 2026

    There’s a tab open on my laptop that’s been there for three weeks. A half-finished drawing, a reference image, a colour picker frozen mid-decision. I haven’t closed it. I think that means something.

    1 Jan, 2026 at 9:12 AM

  • Building a Calendar Interface in Astro

    How I built a static calendar interface in Astro using date-fns.

    21 Sep, 2025 at 8:00 PM

  • 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.

    3 Sep, 2025 at 5:42 PM

🌿 Currently Reading

Cover of "Madonna in a Fur Coat"

📝 Recent bookmark and note posts

  • Love this poem I found:

    6 Jun, 2026 at 1:07 PM

  • Mechanical Pencil is a collection of illustrated tear-downs of everyday products by Bryan Macomber. The Zippo tear-down is particularly impressive.

    2 Jun, 2026 at 11:57 AM

  • I’m hosting Silent Reading Club at 1RG on June 16 starting at 6pm. Bring whatever you’re reading, find a comfy spot, and enjoy a few hours of quiet company with friends old and new.

    28 May, 2026 at 8:20 PM

  • I started working on an Astro utility to generate a JSON Feed for blogs, changelogs, or any chronological content. It’s called astro-jsonfeed (super original, I know).

    25 May, 2026 at 5:40 PM

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