Garden

The garden entry page is the place to start reading. This note is about what the thing is.

A digital garden is not a blog. A blog is a stream — posts arrive in order, each finished at the moment of publication, and the archive is chronological because nothing else would make sense. A garden is a graph. Notes are revised rather than superseded, connected rather than sequenced, and read by following links rather than by scrolling back through dates. Nothing here is finished; some of it is considerably more developed than the rest, and that unevenness is a property of the form rather than a defect in it.

The practical consequence for reading is that there is no correct order. The maps of content are entry points into topics, and the core pathways on the entry page trace routes through the material that follow an argument rather than a taxonomy. Following links sideways is the intended behaviour.

What is here

The bulk is climate science — the Galapagos work that occupies most of my research time, regional and urban modelling, and the model physics underneath both. Alongside that sit data standards and open science, the computing that research runs on, statistics, and a smaller collection of reading from outside the field.

What is not here

This is the public subset of a larger private vault. Meeting notes, correspondence, daily records, reading logs, and unpublished results stay private, and the separation is enforced in CI rather than by care alone. Where a note touches field infrastructure, it describes generalised reference sites rather than exact siting — Cerro Crocker is the pattern for how that is handled.

Notes are written in the first person because the useful part is usually the judgment: what I chose, what surprised me, what I would do differently. The physics is impersonal and stays that way.

For the standards behind all of this, see garden operations and standards.