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A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden

10 Jun 2020

https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history

A newly revived philosophy for publishing personal knowledge on the web

Maggie Appleton

https://maggieappleton.com/

Maggie Appleton's digital garden of visual essays, notes, and patterns about programming, design, anthropology, and software.

The Garden of Maggie Appleton

https://maggieappleton.com/garden

A growing collection of essays, notes, talks, podcasts, and half-baked explorations, gathered and tended over time.

The Dark Forest and Generative AI

31 Dec 2022

https://maggieappleton.com/ai-dark-forest

Proving you're a human on a web flooded with generative AI content

Folk Interfaces

24 Aug 2022

https://maggieappleton.com/folk-interfaces

People reappropriating existing software to solve their own unique problems

Now | Maggie Appleton

https://maggieappleton.com/now

A sporadically updated log of what Maggie Appleton is reading, exploring, and thinking about.

A Treatise on AI Chatbots Undermining the Enlightenment

05 Aug 2025

https://maggieappleton.com/ai-enlightenment

On chatbot sycophancy, passivity, and the case for more intellectually challenging companions

Growing a Human: The First 30 Weeks

04 Jan 2025

https://maggieappleton.com/growing-a-human

Reflections on the strange experience of growing a human from scratch, without any conscious understanding of how you are doing it

Gas Town’s Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at Scale

23 Jan 2026

https://maggieappleton.com/gastown

On agent orchestration patterns, why design and critical thinking are the new bottlenecks, and whether we should let go of looking at code

Faking William Morris, Generative Forgery, and the Erosion of Art History

30 Apr 2024

https://maggieappleton.com/generative-forgery

Buying fake William Morris prints on Etsy and other early signs of epistemological collapse