🌿 Welcome to myles' garden!
👋🏼 Hey! I'm Myles Braithwaite and I have been alive for 39 years, 10 weeks, 4 days, 9 hours, and 37 minutes! This is my garden of ideas. A collection of thoughts, photos, and things I love.
📰 Recent Articles
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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.
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Broadacre City — Frank Lloyd Wright's Utopia Dystopia
Democracy… we have started toward a new integration—to an integration along the horizontal line which we call the great highway.
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Icebergs can get stuck on underwater mountains
The current largest iceberg, A-23A, is currently spinning in place on top of an underwater mountain:
💅 Painted Nails With It's a Boy!
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Finally finished Hollow Knight, now on to Silksong.
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I don’t appreciate Duolingo’s pro-horse agenda.
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I spent the last 30 minutes trying to figure out why my tests weren’t failing. It turned out it was because I forgot to prepend test_ to the function 🙃.
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Thinknum, a dataset service for revealing strategic movements within companies, made their pitch deck a comic book.
🔖 Recent bookmarks
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Swiss mapmakers have been quietly seeding their work with little doodles—marmots, spiders, even the occasional hidden hiker—inside official maps.
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Emily Sneddon on how she designed Fran Sans, a display font inspired by the destination displays on Muni’s Breda Light Rail Vehicles in San Francisco.
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Peter-Ayers Tarantino’s Manhattan apartment is packed with books and artwork in every direction. It’s chaotic, layered, and unbelievably charming.
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Dani Offline writes about how everyone wants to be a DJ, but no one wants to dance. She argues that the commodifiction of art has devalued the experience of enjoying art for its own sake.