Luis Siccha

Digital Garden

A living space for ideas. Nothing here is finished β€” and that's the point.

What is a digital garden?

A digital garden is a different way of writing on the internet. Instead of publishing finished articles in reverse chronological order, you tend to a collection of notes that grow and change over time β€” like plants in a garden.

Some notes are just seeds: a question, a half-formed idea, a reference I want to come back to. Others have been revisited and expanded. A few might eventually become something more structured. The point is not to produce polished content, but to think in public and let ideas develop at their own pace.

This is the opposite of a blog. A blog post is written once and published. A garden note is planted once and tended over time.

How ideas grow here
🌱
Seed Raw thoughts, fragments, questions. Something caught my attention but I haven't figured out what to do with it yet.
🌿
Sprout Early connections forming. A short note with some structure, linking to other ideas or references.
🌳
Growing More developed thinking. The idea has been revisited, expanded, and is starting to take shape.
🌸
Bloom A mature note. Clear enough to share, though still open to revision. Some of these may eventually become blog posts.
What to expect
Expect
  • + Notes at different stages of completion
  • + Ideas that evolve and get revised over time
  • + Cross-linked thinking between topics
  • + Honest uncertainty and open questions
Don't expect
  • – Polished articles or tutorials
  • – Chronological order
  • – Complete coverage of any topic
  • – Fixed conclusions
How I'll organize ideas
Security & Identity OIDC, SAML, threat modeling, access control
  • OIDC vs SAML: practical differences
  • Keycloak realm design checklist
  • Threat modeling for APIs
Cloud & Infrastructure Azure, AKS, IaC, networking
  • AKS ingress + certificates
  • Azure AD B2C gotchas
  • Terraform state management
Engineering Notes Architecture, patterns, debugging, performance
  • Kafka reliability notes
  • Event-driven vs request-driven
  • Debugging distributed systems
Writing & Books Reading notes, quotes, essays
  • The Idiot: notes and questions
  • On writing clearly
  • Dostoevsky and moral complexity
Personal Systems Habits, tools, workflows
  • My daily workflow on macOS
  • Note-taking with Obsidian
  • My /uses philosophy
Browse the garden
OIDC vs SAML: practical differences
Security & Identity · 🌱 Seed
2026-02-01
Keycloak realm design checklist
Security & Identity · 🌳 Growing
2026-01-28
AKS ingress + certificates
Cloud & Infrastructure · 🌿 Sprout
2026-01-25
Kafka reliability notes
Engineering · 🌳 Growing
2026-01-20
The Idiot: notes and questions
Writing & Books · 🌱 Seed
2026-01-18
My daily workflow on macOS
Personal Systems · 🌸 Bloom
2026-01-15
Threat modeling for APIs
Security & Identity · 🌿 Sprout
2026-01-12
Azure AD B2C gotchas
Cloud & Infrastructure · 🌱 Seed
2026-01-10

Notes are coming soon. For now, consider this the soil.