How my garden works under the hood

  1. I purchased a $4/mo siteplan with Blot which handles hosting and the recursive “Links to this note” functionality. (I think it’s $5 now).
  2. I gutted the default theme and made it my own through simple HTML, CSS, and JS. Blot uses Handlebars as a simple templating language. I use BarbaJS for page transitions. The light/dark mode is done through css variables.
  3. I connected the subdomain through Cloudflare.
  4. I write markdown notes in Obsidian.
  5. I periodically commit these notes to a remote git repository provided by Blot.
  6. Blot converts my markdown notes into HTML to be sent and rendered by the browser.
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How to make your own digital garden

There are a number of guides available on the internet for setting up your digital garden, so have your pick. I’ll share my personal tech stack and

Digital Garden

The term Digital Garden often refers to some corner of the internet where an individual thinks out loud. In some ways similar to a blog, however