Digital Garden

A collection of notes and ideas at various stages of growth. Some are polished, others are just seeds.

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Evergreen

Mature, well-developed ideas

Deploying a Turborepo Monorepo to AWS App Runner: A Complete Guide

Planted Oct 27, 2025

From Amplify failures to App Runner success: Our journey deploying multiple Next.js frontends and a NestJS backend

awsturborepodeploymentnextjsnestjs

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Budding

Growing and being refined

The Persistence High: Where Deep Work Meets Neurochemical Reward

Planted Oct 13, 2025

What if the hardest work actually feels the best? Exploring how sustained effort in challenging tasks triggers neurochemical rewards, bridging Kelly McGonigal's persistence high with Cal Newport's deep work

neuroscienceproductivityflowdeep-workpersistenceintrinsic-motivation

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Seedling

Early ideas and rough notes

How We Built a Distributed Pipeline to Process 1 Crore Records Daily

Planted Nov 3, 2025

How we built a custom distributed pipeline to process 1 crore (10M+) real estate records daily with 99.9% reliability using NestJS, BullMQ, and the Producer-Worker pattern

nestjsbullmqdistributed-systemsdata-pipelineproducer-workertypescript

Monte Carlo Pi: Learning Through Randomness

Planted Oct 27, 2025

Exploring how chaos can reveal mathematical truth - using random dart throws to calculate π and learning the fundamentals of distributed computing

monte-carlodistributed-computingrustwebassemblyalgorithmsmathematics

Building My First Browser Game in the Pre-LLM Era

Planted Oct 20, 2025

How a young developer built a fast-paced browser game using Phaser 2, Stack Overflow, and pure determination in 2016 - long before ChatGPT and Claude existed

phasergame-devjavascriptstackoverflowlearning