Scribblings of a Seeker 
Scribblings Of A Seeker
My digital garden I always wanted to set up a digital garden, originally inspired by Maggie Appleton’s Digital Garden and her article A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden.
It’s been a long time since I built a website. I need to create a digital space for myself. a place where I put down all my thoughts. a place where I put down all my interests and the knowledge I gained from them.
Especially for my photography. I need to set up a space where people can browse my albums like it’s on Instagram or some other beautiful image-sharing website.
Should I use Rust for building the website I was once thinking about? I mean this can be a learning project too, to correct all the business logic in Rust. You can make a 3D version of the website.
25.05.2025
- I have already decided that Oblivion is going to be my CMS.
- I guess I will be using Next then, taking advantage of the static site generation features along with other functionalities to build what I want. I can continue to scale it with additional features in the future if needed.
- I considered using NUXT but decided against it for some reason. I already use NUXT in the office all the time; it hasn’t won me over.
What is my Ideal developer/publisher experience?
- All notes and files saved in the obsessions vault with the property ‘Post’ and status property ‘Publish’ should be picked up for posting on the website as static content.
- Should be able to design custom pages for specific posts.
- Start with a NextJS blog template and go from there.
- Create albums and publish them to create dynamic posts on my website.
Just had an Idea for an AI/LLM-based personal story generator. User starts the story -> app records the start position of the story and tags an image to the story -> Basically, I want an app where I post images and short text captions that are neatly organized in a timeline with AI-generated text descriptions. The end result will be a shareable web page that will be a summary of my event/trip.
Homepage design: a 3d cluster view of the obsidian graph. But it was a little bit more stylish.
- Need an idea for the menu Items.
- Need to figure out if I can use the data for the graph to create something with interaction.
Website Architecture & Features (April 2026):
The digital garden is now live at scribblingsofaseeker.com, built with Astro 5, Tailwind CSS, and Svelte 5. It’s organized into three main content areas:
- Blog - Traditional long-form posts with reading time estimates, excerpts, and pagination
- Garden - Evergreen notes and thoughts in an Obsidian-style digital garden format with wiki-link support (
[[links]]) - Photography - Photo albums with EXIF data extraction, lightbox viewing, and R2 cloud storage integration
Key Technical Features:
- 3D Interactive Graph - Force-directed visualization of all posts on the homepage using
3d-force-graph - Obsidian Integration - Scripts to sync and publish directly from the Obsessions vault
- Enhanced Markdown - Support for admonitions, GitHub cards, math notation (KaTeX), code blocks with syntax highlighting
- Search & Discovery - Full-text search with Pagefind, RSS feeds, sitemap, and smooth page transitions
- Photo Pipeline - Automated photo uploader with EXIF extraction and cloud storage
- Theme Customization - Dark/light mode with customizable accent colors