🌱 welcome to myles' garden
👋 hi, i'm myles braithwaite, 40 years, 3 weeks, 1 day, 6 hours, and 24 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
🎵 this is my jam
whatever's stuck in my head this week
My current jam is Pressure To Party by Julia Jacklin.
📝 notes and bookmarks
half-formed thoughts and other people's good ideas
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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.
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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:
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Cedric on deadpan photography (square framing, flat light, uniform focus) as a style that doesn’t claim neutrality so much as perform it, machinery left on display. The caveat lands well, the same refusal to editorialise reads very differently when the subject is suffering rather than water towers.
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John Clary Davies on a 3 A.M. bear at his kitchen window and a record year for human-bear conflicts in Colorado. There have been over 7,000 incidents by early September. A dry winter and drought pushing bears toward houses and a whole town trading stories about cubs on the bike path.