## 👋 Hi, I am Marcel
I am a guy who is interested in tech, infrastructure and programming.
I am an avid listener of music and am interested in all kinds of off- and online (board)games.
## 🌱 Welcome to my Digital Garden
For years I have been trying to create a website and a blog. I have scrapped countless articles because they never seemed polished or finished enough to publish. A few days ago, I read an article by [Maggie Appleton](https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history) about the history of Digital Gardening.
To break it down in my understanding a Digital Garden is a kind of a mashup between a wiki, a blog and a homepage. Digital Gardens follow a few key principles:
* Growth instead of finished things. _Just like in a real garden you are not presented with the finished plant. You can see it grow over time._
* Highly personal. _Just like a real garden a digital one is a highly personal thing. It contains exactly what the owner of the garden want's to put in it, not what engagement or algorithms reward._
* Highly connected. _Just like the roots of plants build fine connections, things in a Digital Garden are connected as well. (Kind of like a wiki. Oh and don't get me started on the interconnection between mushrooms. That stuff is rad.)_
So instead of continuing the churn of creating and scrapping stuff because it is not polished enough (at least in my perception), i will embrace the mud and start a Digital Garden. So I invite you to come by occasionally and have a look at what has grown.
> [!tip] My socials
> Mastodon: https://mas.to/@mzumquadrat
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> Matrix: https://matrix.to/#/@mzumquadrat:nitro.chat
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> Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcelmehlmann/