About #

Hi! My name is Nick, I'm a programmer based in Berlin, Germany. You can find me rambling about electronic music, small web, permacomputing, games, mental health and sometimes startups. Check out the now page to figure out what I am into at the moment.

You can get in touch with me via email: hello@grains.cc.

What is this page? #

Grains is a digital garden. It's a static website that serves as my personal wiki and a public note-taking system. I really like how this concept is described in My blog is a digital garden, not a blog by Joel Hooks:

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.

There are two articles that really got me thinking about this.

The first is from Amy Hoy. How the Blog Broke the Web, which is a direct discussion of this idea of sorting posts by dates and how it effectively ruined the best parts of the internet. We've moved away from hand crafted home pages that required us to curate and present our best content in the best light.

The second article is from Tom Critchlow titled Building a Digital Garden. What I really like about Tom's piece is his discussion of the idea of "non-performative blogging" in your personal space on the web.

The wiki lives under the notes section, and the lookbacks section contains my monthly journaling practice.

Grains is a part of Merveilles Webring, a network of hand-crafted wikis and portfolios like this one. Try visiting a random website from the ring.