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Thematic-TAO: a three-pass method for post analysis
Extracting meaningful entities and relations, combining thematic analysis with TAO topic mapping in three passes.
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Observations and reflections from working with AI.
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Claude Code: what's new for the garden
Five short experiments validating new Claude features (March 2026 release) on the digital garden. Practical demos for conversation designers.
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Experiment 2: thematic analysis with 1M context
Testing the 1M context window by loading the entire garden and running thematic analysis, comparing fresh analysis against graph-augmented analysis.
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Experiment 1: scheduled garden health check
Testing Claude Code's new scheduled tasks feature by automating weekly garden health checks.
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Thematic analysis of the garden: fresh reading
Seven themes and one emerging pattern discovered by loading all 244 garden files into a single context window with no prior structure.
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Thematic analysis of the garden: graph-augmented
What happens when you start from embeddings instead of reading? Comparing cluster-based discovery against the fresh thematic analysis.
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Garden user manual
Task-based reference for maintaining this digital garden: writing, tagging, linking, mapping, sharing, publishing.
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External content discovery
Using the garden's own knowledge graph to find relevant external content, papers, and articles.
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Garden lifecycle: greenhouse, compost, and soil
A lifecycle metaphor for how content enters, matures, decays, and recycles in the garden.
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Stable map positions: giving the garden roots
How the explore map got stable positions and pinned territories, so the landscape doesn't shift on every rebuild.
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Typed relations as garden infrastructure
How hub/develops relations replace tag-based project structure with an explicit ontology, and what that means for the three kinds of connections in the garden.
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A test strategy for the garden
Three layers of automated testing: content validation, build verification, and Playwright E2E. Why each layer exists and what it catches.
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Book recommender
A personal book recommender that matches candidates against my library and garden interests. No AI, just logic and situational vibe chips.
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How content chunk size influences embedding representations
Why embedding models cluster documents by format instead of topic when content lengths vary, and what to do about it.
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Explore page: a visual browsing UI for the garden
Design document for an /explore page that lets visitors walk through the garden visually, using semantic maps, serendipity, and trails.
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Design system and content guidelines
The living reference for the visual design, component library, content rules, and interaction patterns of maaike.ai.
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Full-scale key phrase extraction: results
Running LLM-based key phrase extraction on all 92 garden items. What the results reveal about phrase overlap, short-text limits, and the role of key phrases in the knowledge graph.
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Key phrase extraction for the garden
What key phrase extraction is, how it evolved from word counting to LLM prompting, and which approach fits a small multilingual knowledge garden.
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Tuning the similarity threshold: from 2,771 candidates to useful suggestions
How to go from "everything is related to everything" to a useful set of link candidates. Data analysis, filtering strategies, and the research behind them.
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Embedding models: a survey for the garden
A non-coder's guide to text embedding models, from word counting to semantic understanding, surveyed for use in a personal knowledge garden.
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Knowledge graph for the garden
Research into making the garden smarter about its own connections, from automatic backlinks to a full world model.
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Reading notes: Apple's Saga knowledge graph
Reading notes from Apple's Saga papers on building knowledge graphs at scale, and what transfers to a personal digital garden.
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Building this garden: change log
A changelog of features and decisions made while building this digital garden.
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Project memory for persistent context
How a CLAUDE.md file gives your AI coding assistant persistent project context.
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Thinking in Public
The practice of sharing unfinished thoughts openly.
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Digital Gardens vs Blogs
What makes a digital garden different from a traditional blog?