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.
– Joel Hooks

Hi! My name is Jan. Welcome to my digital garden.

On this personal website you may find things related to computers and software, games of all kinds but mostly tabletop and role-playing, electronics, music, language learning and linguistics. I’m not big on writing long-form stuff or essays, but I sometimes like to jot down some short ideas or experiences. I created this site to lower the barrier to entry and make it easier for myself to just write.

The archive page is a listing of my posts. I post sporadically about various subjects and with varying levels of effort.

The liked page is kind of a curated aggregation of bookmarks, saved blog posts and essays, books, series, papers or anything else that I feel like sharing or recommending. I try to include a bit of a “why” alongside each entry.

On the now page I write what’s currently going on in my life. Stuff that some would write onto their social media page.

The projects page contains info about my hobby projects.

This site is written using the note-taking app Obsidian. Markdown files are synced onto a server where they are converted to HTML segments using pandoc. This way I can update my site on the go using my phone. See post.