Steve's Digital Garden

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A public space to share notes, collect ideas, and nurture thoughts on technology, AI, philosophy, personal growth, and life.

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Welcome to my digital garden
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Digital Gardening 🌳 Evergreen ✨ Featured

Welcome to my digital garden

Welcome to my digital garden: a collection of thoughts, tutorials, and insights gathered along the way, ranging from technology and AI to philosophy and life.

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If Not Palantir, What Has to Give? A Thought Experiment on Government IT and "Benevolent Dictators"
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Engineering 🌱 Seed

If Not Palantir, What Has to Give? A Thought Experiment on Government IT and "Benevolent Dictators"

If society pushes back against single commercial platforms like Palantir, how do we fix fragmented government and enterprise IT? A thought experiment on why we might need a 'Benevolent Dictator' to protect the big picture.

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Palantir Foundry is the Best Software I've Ever Used (And Why That Sits Uneasily With Me)
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Engineering 🌱 Seed

Palantir Foundry is the Best Software I've Ever Used (And Why That Sits Uneasily With Me)

After 10 years in enterprise tech across Azure, Databricks, and Google Cloud, I spent time building on Palantir Foundry. Technically, it blew everything else out of the water. Here is what makes it so good, why large institutions depend on it, and the internal conflict I had to work through.

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What is underground.tech?
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Projects 🌱 Seed

What is underground.tech?

IT for creators, causes, and the community. The manifesto behind underground.tech and giving independent operators the digital firepower the giants use.

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The Evolution of Cognitive Scaffolding: Why AI Expedites Thinking Rather Than Reduces It
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Philosophy & AI 🌱 Seed

The Evolution of Cognitive Scaffolding: Why AI Expedites Thinking Rather Than Reduces It

Why the moral panic around Generative AI mirrors the historical fears of Google Search, library card catalogues, the printing press, and writing itself.

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Building a Modern Digital Garden with Angular 22, SSR, and Markdown
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Architecture 🌳 Evergreen

Building a Modern Digital Garden with Angular 22, SSR, and Markdown

How we architected a Git-native digital garden with Angular 22 Server-Side Rendering, Tailwind CSS v4, dynamic Table of Contents, interactive Canvas graph physics, and Idea Evolution tracking.

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My Tech Stack: The Google-Native Architecture for the Agentic Era
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Architecture 🌿 Bud

My Tech Stack: The Google-Native Architecture for the Agentic Era

Why I use a Google-native stack—Antigravity, ADK, BigQuery, Firebase, and Angular—for my personal projects, and why everything feeling completely in sync makes it my go-to choice.

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From Gemini Chats to Signals: Why I Built a Digital Garden
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Technology 🌳 Evergreen

From Gemini Chats to Signals: Why I Built a Digital Garden

How I transformed hundreds of unorganized AI conversations and Google Docs notes into an interconnected public digital garden.

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