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👋🏼 Hey! I'm myles braithwaite and I have been alive for 39 years, 36 weeks, 4 days, 8 hours, and 4 minutes! This is my garden of ideas. A collection of thoughts, photos, and things I love.
📰 Recent Articles
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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.
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Building a Calendar Interface in Astro
How I built a static calendar interface in Astro using date-fns.
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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.
💅 Painted Nails With No Room for the Blues
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📝 Recent bookmark and note posts
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Mechanical Pencil is a collection of illustrated tear-downs of everyday products by Bryan Macomber. The Zippo tear-down is particularly impressive.
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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.
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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).
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Doug MacDowell writes about drawing data visualisations completely by hand.