Tending Your Software Garden

Software: do you write it like a book, grow it like a plant, accrete it like a pearl, or construct it like a building? As Steve McConnell notes in Code Complete 2, there’s no shortage of software development metaphors: A confusing abundance of metaphors has grown up around software

mata.garden

The garden is where we grow seeds of ideas. Either coming through a creative thought or a technological development we consider these live, multi-dimensional, interactive sketches or maquettes. It's important to have ideas that have no specific functional end but are there only to evolve and mutate into others. This is our place to do that.

The SAGE Community Coordinator: A Demonstration

Sustainable polyculture gardens thrive more effectively when they are designed with an awareness of other gardens in the community, as opposed to as individual gardens. However, the complex characteristics of plants, and their relations to other plant species in terms of needs and capacities, require a complex knowledge base not easily acquired by novice gardeners. We contribute a demonstration of our project, called the Software for Agricultural Ecosystems (SAGE) Community Coordinator, that helps manage the complexities of plant relationships and provides planting suggestions based on existing plants in adjacent garden sites. The research team collected the requirements and developed a preliminary demonstration of this system. This demonstration shows the feasibility of the idea and lays the foundation for a more comprehensive implementation of the SAGE Community Coordinator. By doing so, this paper explores the use of technology to foster the establishment of complex plant assemblages in urban and suburban areas to address the current and future limits of material resources derived from plants.

garden3d

We like to say that garden3d is a platform for doing things.

What the Future of Working at Home May Look Like

Innovative home designs find ways to combine living and work spaces

Digital gardening

I've been thinking about gardens this week. It started while reading the book Shopkeeping, which had a section entitled "Gardening": > A good shopkeeper will no...

Digital gardening

I've been thinking about gardens this week. It started while reading the book Shopkeeping, which had a section entitled "Gardening": > A good shopkeeper will no...

FLORA — Your Creative Environment

Generative workflows that scale

Jekyll-Bonsai

A modern jekyll theme for semantically inclined digital gardeners.

Home - Project Row Houses

ENRICHING COMMUNITIES THROUGH COLLECTIVE CREATIVE ACTION

DeepSeek

Maggie's digital garden filled with visual essays on programming, design, and anthropology

Digital Gardening for Non-Technical Folks

How to build a digital garden without touching code

Digital Gardening for Non-Technical Folks

How to build a digital garden without touching code

🌱 My blog is a digital garden, not a blog

The phrase “digital garden” is a metaphor for thinking about writing and creating that focuses less on the resulting “showpiece” and more on the process, care, and craft it takes to get there.

🌱 My blog is a digital garden, not a blog

The phrase “digital garden” is a metaphor for thinking about writing and creating that focuses less on the resulting “showpiece” and more on the process, care, and craft it takes to get there.