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Written by Chris Coyier on 2025-01-16 at 23:01

The Garden vs The River

Robin Rendle quoting Chris Armstrong:  ... Chris argues that personal websites could become more like wikis instead: With digital gardens, every new piece of content in the network has the potential to add depth and context to every other part. The whole becomes greater than the sum of its parts. I truly love the idea that topics might grow over time with constant refininement .

https://chriscoyier.net/2025/01/16/the-garden-vs-the-river/

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Written by Chris Silverman 🌻 on 2025-01-16 at 23:08

@chriscoyier I think sites that do a good job of tagging topics—like Kottke—exemplify that idea particularly well. There's a point at which a tag/category archive becomes almost like an article of its own.

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Written by alan :blobfoxheadphones: on 2025-01-16 at 23:22

@chriscoyier I've been thinking a lot about my site over the past few days. I've ended up even further into the idea that subdomains are a key thing for me.

Basic posts go on the main www site/blog. But, anything that needs a supporting structure or just feels big enough gets its own subdomain.

Having a clean slate for them is inspiring. Getting to do a thing without having to think about where/how it fits in with the rest of the site is liberating.

I've never really done slash pages, but the idea of making a subdomain for similar effect is pretty appealing (e.g. uses_alanwsmith_com, but it would probably be what-i-use_alanwsmith_com)

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Written by Chris Armstrong on 2025-01-16 at 23:31

@chriscoyier for what it’s worth, I think you’re a master of the blog format (creating pins in time, as you say). Please don’t ever change.

I’m just not that good at writing regularly, and chronological posting tends to paralyse me (my stupid brain feels the pressure of each post being better than the last), so the garden approach removes that pressure and gives me permission to just write down something — anything — and improve it later.

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Written by Chris Glass on 2025-01-16 at 23:33

@chriscoyier I started using posts for 'nows' a while back because overwriting a page without any sort of history was super sad (a tag connects all my old ones).

And after your post lamenting Slash pages I started to link up posts that fit the bill in lieu of a 'page'.

At the end of the day? My guiding thought is to preserve, not delete. It's a work in progress!

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Written by Chris Coyier on 2025-01-17 at 03:06

@glass I love that idea.

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Written by cdpadilla on 2025-01-21 at 23:52

@chriscoyier Robb's direction is the sweet spot for me. Having a history to refer to is just as valuable as getting it out there in the first place.

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