Digital Garden

A public notebook / digital garden for The Bentway’s Digital and/as Public Space Micro-Residency.

Visit the garden

Adding and connecting notes

• Notes in the Digital Garden are stored in the ./_notes folder as markdown files (*.md) files.
• Connecting notes is done through a double-bracket notation: [[text to link]]. View the The Statement of Intent note as an example.
• A link without a corresponding markdown file will be highlighted and left unlinked until a file is created.

Technologies used

• Jekyll, a static website generator written in Ruby
  • Initial template is based on the Digital garden Jekyll template by Maxime Vaillancourt
• Tachyons, a functional CSS library that allows us to quickly grow the garden
• D3.js, a JavaScript library for visualizing data
  • Initial knowledge graph implementation from the Digital garden Jekyll template
• GitHub Actions for testing, building, and deploying the site.
  • GitHub Actions for GitHub Pages is used to deploy the site to the gh-pages branch
• Jekyll Feed plugin, a plugin for Jekyll to generate an RSS feed

Development

1. Clone repository: git clone git@github.com:hyphacoop/digitalgarden.git
2. Install Bundler gem: gem install bundler
3. Install dependencies: bundle install
4. Run locally: bundle exec jekyll serve or rake watch
5. Visit your localhost on port 4000: http://localhost:4000 or http://127.0.0.1:4000

License

Digital Garden content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

All code at github.com/hyphacoop/digitalgarden/ is licensed under a GNU General Public License v3.0, the text of which is included in the repository here.