🌱 welcome to myles' garden
👋 hi, i'm myles braithwaite, 39 years, 51 weeks, 4 days, 16 hours, and 13 minutes alive. this garden is a collection of thoughts, photos, and things i love.
📷 snapshots
photographs from my life
📰 recent articles
the longer posts i've written
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How I Built Yarrow
Yarrow is a Tarot reader that runs on Astro, Tailwind, and Svelte, with an LLM doing the reading.
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Neocities Deploy from GitHub Actions
A CI workflow to lint and build, a CD workflow to deploy to Neocities, and a brief defense of why I build the site twice.
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The Stuff That Stuck in 2025
Not a definitive list, just the books and movies that followed me out of the room in 2025.
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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.
🌿 currently reading
whatever's on the nightstand or in my backpack
💅 Painted Nails With Big Apple Red and Black Onyx
what's on my nails this week
Published by
🎵 this is my jam
whatever's stuck in my head this week
My current jam is Video Games by Lucy Frost.
📝 notes and bookmarks
half-formed thoughts and other people's good ideas
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Fugleramme is a real-time bird detection system that listens for birds and renders them as hand-cut 1800s-style illustrations on an e-ink display powered by a Raspberry Pi.
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A manifesto making the case that owning your own website instead of feeding a platform is basically punk.
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Sami Smith built Misen, a launchpad with a skeuomorphic design of a room. It’s kind of incredible what people are building with the help of LLMs.
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Rick Vega made this helpful site to build your own zine.