on gardening

I started making web sites in '98 or so, and I've always loved personal sites that are more akin to gardens than portfolios. There have only been a few times in my life where I've had the time and space to actually build and maintain one for myself, so it's always an exciting feeling when I do get one of these up and running.

The web has always been one of my favorite artistic mediums, and somehow that feeling hasn't waned during the last couple decades of corporate-hellscape-app-internet. It still feels like the "small web" is off dancing in a wide-open field, no worse for wear.

I've been doing this stuff long enough that it's kind of how I think of my body of work at this point, like something I make doesn't feel totally published until it's part of a web site I made, a piece hanging in a corridor of a labyrinth, an entry in some big worldbuilding exercise.

On the other hand, a lot of the posts here are pretty mundane stuff, and just like a diary, it's good to have space for that - for play.

I want to write more about gardening (I worked as a gardener for a time), and about the web as a medium, and in time that writing will go on this page. But for now, I'll link to this text that Zach Mandeville wrote about his web site, which I found really resonant.

Anyway, thanks for stopping by.

-B, 3/30/26