🪴 myles' garden

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🌱 welcome to myles' garden

👋 hi, i'm myles braithwaite, 40 years, 3 weeks, 6 days, 7 hours, and 33 minutes alive. this garden is a collection of thoughts, photos, and things i love.

📷 snapshots

photographs from my life

Charcoal studies of draped fabric on white paper, with a large shaded study in the centre and smaller sketches around it.

15 Oct, 2026

Treetops at night against a dark purple sky. The leaves are lit bright green from below and blurred sideways by wind, while the lower branches fall into black shadow.

10 Oct, 2026

📰 recent articles

the longer posts i've written

  • How I Built Yarrow

    Yarrow is a Tarot reader that runs on Astro, Tailwind, and Svelte, with an LLM doing the reading.

    29 Jun, 2026 at 12:59 PM

  • 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.

    8 Jun, 2026 at 4:49 PM

  • 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

🌿 currently reading

whatever's on the nightstand or in my backpack

Cover of "Burnside"

🎵 this is my jam

whatever's stuck in my head this week

My current jam is Pressure To Party by Julia Jacklin.

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📝 notes and bookmarks

half-formed thoughts and other people's good ideas

  • Andros Fenollosa on why we want small systems instead of decentralized ones when talking about online communities.

    16 Oct, 2026 at 3:30 PM

  • added two social features to the site tonight

    14 Oct, 2026 at 11:29 PM

  • archived awesome-static-generators today. new generators were turning up faster than I could review them, and a stale list isn’t much use to anyone.

    5 Oct, 2026 at 7:45 PM

  • I’m hosting Silent Reading Club at 1RG on the autumn equinox (Tuesday 22nd September at 6pm). Bring whatever you’re reading, find a comfy spot, and enjoy a few hours of quiet company with friends old and new. If you’re looking for something to read:

    18 Sep, 2026 at 2:56 PM

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