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👋🏼 Hey! I'm myles braithwaite and I have been alive for 39 years, 44 weeks, 3 days, 13 hours, and 36 minutes! This is my garden of ideas. A collection of thoughts, photos, and things I love.
📰 Recent Articles
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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.
💅 Painted Nails With Tile Art to Warm Your Heart
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📝 Recent bookmark and note posts
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Michiyo Yasuda gave Ghibli its colour. This piece finally gives her the credit.
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I’m speaking at Python Toronto’s July 23 Meetup on Personal Data Archaeology with Python. Almost every platform you use holds a slice of your life, all locked behind an API. The Dogsheep pattern (pioneered by Simon Willison) pulls that data into SQLite, where you can actually query it. I’ll share what I’ve learned building these tools.
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Finished my first day at Relay today.
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I really want to like HyperTexting (an iOS app that will turn feeds into a scrollable social media interface), but when I first opened the app, it auto-subscribed me to 20+ feeds I have no interest in, and now the first post on the list is an ad to buy a sponsorship for their app.