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🌿 Welcome to myles' garden!

👋🏼 Hey! I'm myles braithwaite and I have been alive for 39 years, 37 weeks, 1 day, and 12 hours! This is my garden of ideas. A collection of thoughts, photos, and things I love.

📷 Recent photos

Two painted canvases leaning against a graffiti-covered brick wall in a dim alley at night. The larger central canvas is a black ink-and-charcoal drawing on a cream ground: elongated, sketchy human profiles and faces, with one figure in a coat holding a cigarette near a tiny orange figure perched on the hand. Below the image it's titled "BIDDING WAR," dated "2 JUNE 2026," and signed "GRAF ALLEY" with a heart and an artist's signature. A smaller canvas to the left, in the same scratchy style, shows two faces and reads "SOLVE & RASOLUTE." Behind them the wall is covered in red, teal, and grey graffiti, including a snarling wolf and the word "RASCAL" in red. On the concrete in the foreground, handwriting reads "LIFE & DEATH ARE THINGS YOU JUST DO WHEN YOU'RE BORED," and beside a small sketch, "YOU CAN'T TAKE THIS ONE" with an arrow.

2 Jun, 2026

A hand-lettered cardboard sign staked into a grassy curb strip. The top reads "DOG LIBRARY" in colored block capitals; beneath it, smaller handwritten text says "TAKE A STICK / LEAVE A STICK (OPTIONAL)." A few sticks lie scattered in the grass below the sign. A sidewalk runs along the left, and a young staked tree sits in a mulch bed to the right.

2 Jun, 2026

📰 Recent Articles

  • 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

  • Building a Calendar Interface in Astro

    How I built a static calendar interface in Astro using date-fns.

    21 Sep, 2025 at 8:00 PM

  • 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.

    3 Sep, 2025 at 5:42 PM

🌿 Currently Reading

Cover of "Madonna in a Fur Coat"

💅 Painted Nails With No Room for the Blues

No Room for the Blues No Room for the Blues No Room for the Blues No Room for the Blues No Room for the Blues No Room for the Blues No Room for the Blues No Room for the Blues No Room for the Blues No Room for the Blues

Published by 23 May, 2026 at 8:02 PM

📝 Recent bookmark and note posts

  • Love this poem I found:

    6 Jun, 2026 at 1:07 PM

  • Mechanical Pencil is a collection of illustrated tear-downs of everyday products by Bryan Macomber. The Zippo tear-down is particularly impressive.

    2 Jun, 2026 at 11:57 AM

  • I’m hosting Silent Reading Club at 1RG on June 16 starting at 6pm. Bring whatever you’re reading, find a comfy spot, and enjoy a few hours of quiet company with friends old and new.

    28 May, 2026 at 8:20 PM

  • I started working on an Astro utility to generate a JSON Feed for blogs, changelogs, or any chronological content. It’s called astro-jsonfeed (super original, I know).

    25 May, 2026 at 5:40 PM

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