Pete's Digital Garden

July 21, 2026 · 2:30 PM · 🌱 seedling

SaaS Isn't Dead. It's Moving.

"SaaS is dead" is half right — the most dangerous kind. Big orgs will build what they used to rent, but the value doesn't vanish. It moves down the value chain, to the great, consistent bundle most of us would rather trust than build.

June 17, 2026 · 10:30 PM · 🌱 seedling

Good Stuff Bubbles Up

I found bubbles.town — a Hacker News for personal blogs. It's everything I want the small web to be, and it raises an awkward question about this very garden.

June 05, 2026 · 9:15 PM · 🌿 budding

The Gardener Almost Pulled a Tomato

A few weeks into letting an AI tend my notes, it tried to delete one I wanted to keep. The guardrail held — and that's the point.

June 02, 2026 · 8:30 PM · 🌱 seedling

Letting an AI Tend My Second Brain

I keep a second brain. Lately I've been teaching AI agents to garden it — and this site is the first thing that grew.

May 12, 2026 · 2:30 PM · 🌱 seedling

Custom Rigs Are Coming Back

PC gamers once turned into modders. With AI moving on-device and RAM and chip prices going vertical, I think we're about to start building our own boxes again — and that's a good thing.

April 14, 2026 · 2:30 PM · 🌱 seedling

Computers Are Fun Again

An Apple IIe, a Countach drawn in HPLOT, a brother who erased the floppy — and why, with AI filling my skill gaps and growing the rest, this might be the age of the neurodivergent. Computers are fun again.

March 01, 2026 · 9:00 AM · 🌳 evergreen

UX Is Dead. Long Live HX.

Why designing for Agents means we finally get to design for Humans — not Users. The end of dark patterns, the beginning of honest experiences.

February 19, 2026 · 10:00 AM · 🌳 evergreen

What Vertical Farming Got Wrong

Billions in VC money burned. The lesson is not about lettuce.

January 12, 2026 · 10:00 AM · 🌳 evergreen

I Built an Open-Source 3D Configurator for Geodesic Shelters

Three.js, vanilla JavaScript, 23 modules, 10 languages, and zero frameworks. Here is how it works.