Digital Gardening

Last Updated on 2025-11-18

Last week I have stumbled over an article by heise online about Digital Gardening: https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Nerd-Trend-Digitaler-Garten-Die-eigene-Website-als-persoenliches-Wissensarchiv-10344169.html?seite=all

I love this idea of sharing new ideas or projects I currently work on without claiming to write a perfect or polished article but rather plant a seed and like in a garden, put some water and care at it here and then and let it grow. Visit it again a season later and see if it needs some attention or delivers some inspiration and can get connected to another idea.

So that’s my plan for now (as always when inspiration strikes me): Build my own digital garden. Put ideas here and see if and how they grow and relate to each other. So basically continuing with the original idea for this website I had, when I started with it, see my first post

About spleening

From my point of view, ideas should not be kept secret and isolated from the world but instead should be put to the public either by implementation and/or communication. But like a flower or small tree, they need some fruitful and friendly ground on which they can blossom. So this is the place where I want to plant my ideas and – if you like – I would like to invite you to do the same. The interpretations of the english word spleen contain some negative evaluation. I rather refer to the german word “Spleen” and the interpretation towards a…

CU Michael