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- Craft
- Art
- Engineering
- Frameworks
- Patterns
- Programming Languages
- Python — Notes, libraries, and links related to Python — tools I’ve used, want to try, or want to remember.
- Python — Notes, libraries, and links related to Python — tools I’ve used, want to try, or want to remember.
- Tooling
- Photography
- Infrastructure
- ⚒️ Projects
- The Forge — The Forge is a system for collecting data on myself.
- arc-to-sqlite — Convert Arc Timeline daily/monthly exports into a queryable SQLite database.
- bluesky-to-sqlite — Save data from Bluesky to a SQLite database.
- arc-to-sqlite — Convert Arc Timeline daily/monthly exports into a queryable SQLite database.
- Myles' Arcana — A typed catalog of the cultural artifacts in my digital garden.
- Myles' Clippings — JPEGs and GIFs I find on the Internet.
- 🪴 Myles’ Garden — My personal home on the web.
- 📖 Myles’ Grimoire — A place for notes, sketches, half-grown thoughts, fragments of research, experiments, and passing curiosities gathered from my work and wanderings.
- Field Notes — Scrapes, sightings, and “stuff I found while working”
- Structured Pages
- Field Notes — Scrapes, sightings, and “stuff I found while working”
- Myles' Registry — The canonical registry of identifiers within myles' digital garden.
- Self-hosted Social Media Platforms — Running my own self-hosted At Protocol PDS and Mastodon for myself and a few friends.
- The Forge — The Forge is a system for collecting data on myself.
- Research
- Tarot
- Major Arcana
- The Fool — The Fool steps off the edge with nothing but trust. Full of possibility, unburdened by experience. A card of beginnings, risk, and the strange courage of not knowing what comes next.
- Chariot — The Chariot is willpower made visible — competing forces brought under control through sheer determination. Victory is possible here, but only through discipline, not force.
- The Hanged Man — The Hanged Man waits — not passively, but as a deliberate act of surrender. The pause is generative. A new perspective only arrives when you stop insisting on the old one.
- Death — Death doesn't destroy — it transforms. Something has run its course, and holding on longer only delays what's already in motion. The ending is real, but so is what follows it.
- The Devil — The Devil shows us what we've let bind us — habit, comfort, self-deception. The chains are real enough, but they're also loosely worn. Confronting what holds us is how we take it off.
- The Magician — The Magician has everything needed — the question is whether he'll use it. A card of resourcefulness and intentional action, where skill and will meet at the right moment.
- The High Priestess — The High Priestess knows what she knows without being able to explain it. She guards the threshold between visible and hidden, and trusts the deeper current more than the surface one.
- The Empress — The Empress is abundance without apology — fertile, creative, rooted in the physical world. She tends what grows and trusts that nature knows its own timing.
- The Emperor — The Emperor holds structure in place through authority and steady will. Less about ambition than about the unglamorous, ongoing work of keeping things standing.
- The Hierophant — The Hierophant channels tradition and shared belief — the wisdom that comes through institutions, mentors, and the long lineage of accumulated practice. Useful as a guide; constraining as a cage.
- The Lovers — The Lovers is as much about choice as it is about love. The deeper question isn't who to be with — it's who you are when you're aligned with what you truly value.
- Strength — Strength isn't aggression — it's the patience to meet wildness without flinching. The lion doesn't need to be defeated, just understood.
- The Hermit — The Hermit walks alone by choice, lantern in hand. The answers he seeks aren't in the crowd — they're in the silence that opens up when you stop filling it.
- Wheel of Fortune — The Wheel turns regardless. Good fortune shifts, bad fortune shifts — the invitation is to stop clinging to either and trust the larger pattern you can't fully see.
- Justice — Justice doesn't comfort — it clarifies. Whatever has been done will have its consequence. A card of accountability and the stubborn insistence that cause and effect are real.
- Temperance — Temperance blends what seems like opposites into something that works. Not compromise — alchemy. Slow, purposeful, and oriented toward a goal worth taking time for.
- The Tower — The Tower falls because it was built on something false. The shock is real, but so is the relief when you stop maintaining something that never belonged.
- The Star — The Star appears after ruin, and that's the point. A quiet, reliable light — not triumphant, just present. Healing is already underway; this card says to keep going.
- The Moon — The Moon makes things uncertain on purpose. Not everything here is illusion, but not everything is real either. The challenge is navigating without demanding clarity that isn't available yet.
- The Sun — The Sun is uncomplicated good news. Warmth, clarity, and a rare moment where things are exactly as they appear to be. Worth recognising when it arrives.
- Judgement — Judgement calls you to account — not with punishment, but with clarity. Have you become who you meant to be? If not, what's still in the way?
- The World — The World marks genuine completion — not just the end of something, but the integration of everything it taught. A chapter fully closed, with room now for something new.
- The Fool — The Fool steps off the edge with nothing but trust. Full of possibility, unburdened by experience. A card of beginnings, risk, and the strange courage of not knowing what comes next.
- Minor Arcana
- Cups
- Ace of Cups — The Ace of Cups is an opening — emotional, creative, spiritual. Something wants to pour in. The invitation is to make space for it rather than manage it.
- Two of Cups — The Two of Cups is the moment of recognition — when two people meet each other clearly and choose to stay. Connection over obligation; mutual respect over performance.
- Three of Cups — The Three of Cups belongs to the people who show up for each other without keeping score. Celebration, community, the specific joy of shared history.
- Four of Cups — The Four of Cups sits with dissatisfaction, not always productively. A new offer waits at the edge of awareness — whether to take it depends on what the withdrawal has been for.
- Five of Cups — The Five of Cups counts what was lost while what remains stands behind it, unacknowledged. Grief is real here. So is the eventual turning.
- Six of Cups — The Six of Cups revisits the past warmly — sometimes usefully, sometimes at the cost of the present. Not all nostalgia is avoidance, but not all of it is helpful.
- Seven of Cups — The Seven of Cups offers everything all at once, which is its own kind of trap. All options, no commitment. At some point the choosing has to happen.
- Eight of Cups — The Eight of Cups walks away from what's no longer enough. The sacrifice is real — the stability, the familiarity — but staying would cost more.
- Nine of Cups — The Nine of Cups is the wish card: satisfied, comfortable, quietly pleased. Worth savouring. Worth checking, too, that the satisfaction isn't just self-congratulation.
- Ten of Cups — The Ten of Cups is relational fulfilment in full — belonging, love that lasts, a life that feels like home. The dream as it actually looks when it arrives.
- Page of Cups — The Page of Cups receives messages from the emotional world with open, slightly bewildered curiosity. Intuition is active here, even if it doesn't yet know what to do with what it's finding.
- Knight of Cups — The Knight of Cups follows the heart with full conviction and some disregard for what's practical. His charm is real; so is his tendency to romance the idea over the reality.
- Queen of Cups — The Queen of Cups holds the emotional weather of those around her without being swept away by it. Her empathy is a skill, not just a quality — steady, perceptive, deeply felt.
- King of Cups — The King of Cups has mastered the art of feeling without losing his footing. He leads from emotional intelligence — calm in the flood, steady in the current.
- Ace of Cups — The Ace of Cups is an opening — emotional, creative, spiritual. Something wants to pour in. The invitation is to make space for it rather than manage it.
- Pentacles
- Ace of Pentacles — The Ace of Pentacles is a concrete opportunity — not a dream, a seed. Something real and material is on offer. Whether it grows depends on what you do next.
- Two of Pentacles — The Two of Pentacles is the ongoing art of balance — managing more than is entirely comfortable, staying agile enough that nothing drops. Sustainable, for now.
- Three of Pentacles — The Three of Pentacles is what good collaboration actually looks like: different skills in service of a shared thing, each person's contribution visible and valued.
- Four of Pentacles — The Four of Pentacles holds on. Sometimes that's wisdom — protecting what was hard to build. Sometimes it's fear dressed as security.
- Five of Pentacles — The Five of Pentacles is hardship that feels total — financial, material, and often emotional. Help exists somewhere nearby; the difficulty is admitting it's needed.
- Six of Pentacles — The Six of Pentacles moves resources between those who have and those who don't. Worth noticing which position you're in — and whether the exchange is actually balanced.
- Seven of Pentacles — The Seven of Pentacles pauses to assess mid-growth. Results are visible but incomplete. Is the return justifying the investment, and what, if anything, needs to change?
- Eight of Pentacles — The Eight of Pentacles is craft in practice — focused, repetitive, improving. Not glamorous, but essential. The mastery is in the doing, not the planning.
- Nine of Pentacles — The Nine of Pentacles earned it. Comfort, independence, and the pleasure of a life built on one's own terms — not given, but cultivated.
- Ten of Pentacles — The Ten of Pentacles is legacy thinking — the kind of wealth and stability that outlasts the person who built it. Security not just for now, but for what comes after.
- Page of Pentacles — The Page of Pentacles studies carefully before acting — curious, methodical, and genuinely committed to learning the craft before claiming the title.
- Knight of Pentacles — The Knight of Pentacles moves deliberately. What he lacks in speed he makes up in thoroughness — every task finished, every commitment kept.
- Queen of Pentacles — The Queen of Pentacles makes things flourish through practical attention and steady care. Generosity and good sense in equal measure.
- King of Pentacles — The King of Pentacles built something that lasts — through discipline, patience, and the kind of strategic thinking that never mistakes short-term wins for lasting wealth.
- Ace of Pentacles — The Ace of Pentacles is a concrete opportunity — not a dream, a seed. Something real and material is on offer. Whether it grows depends on what you do next.
- Swords
- Ace of Swords — The Ace of Swords cuts through. A sudden clarity, a breakthrough, a truth that can no longer be ignored or softened. Sharp, direct, and necessary.
- Two of Swords — The Two of Swords blindfolds itself in front of a difficult choice. The stalemate is mostly internal — the information needed to decide is already available, if the blindfold comes off.
- Three of Swords — The Three of Swords is pain made explicit — heartbreak, betrayal, grief that has to be felt before it can be released. No shortcuts through this one.
- Four of Swords — The Four of Swords steps back from the fray. Not defeat — deliberate rest. The mind recovers here; re-entering too soon undoes the work.
- Five of Swords — The Five of Swords asks what the victory actually cost. Winning through deception or cruelty leaves something broken that doesn't easily repair.
- Six of Swords — The Six of Swords moves away from what was — not triumphantly, but with purpose. The water ahead is calmer. The passage takes as long as it takes.
- Seven of Swords — The Seven of Swords is strategic and evasive — working around obstacles rather than through them. Worth asking whether the strategy is clever or just avoidant.
- Eight of Swords — The Eight of Swords stands bound and blindfolded, convinced there's no way out. Most of the imprisonment is thought. The ropes are real; the situation is not as final as it feels.
- Nine of Swords — The Nine of Swords is 3 a.m. — the hour when everything worst feels inevitable. The fear is real; its conclusions usually aren't. Morning has a different proportion.
- Ten of Swords — The Ten of Swords is total defeat, plainly stated. The chapter is over. But rock bottom has its own clarity: there's nowhere left to fall.
- Page of Swords — The Page of Swords gathers information quickly and shares it just as fast. Curious and sharp, but still learning when to hold back and when the full picture is actually in.
- Knight of Swords — The Knight of Swords moves fast and talks faster. His drive is real; so is the wreckage he can leave when speed substitutes for judgement.
- Queen of Swords — The Queen of Swords has earned her clarity through experience. She's direct not because she's cold but because she values truth more than comfort — and expects the same.
- King of Swords — The King of Swords thinks precisely, judges fairly, and holds to principle even when it's inconvenient. Authority grounded in intellect and moral consistency.
- Ace of Swords — The Ace of Swords cuts through. A sudden clarity, a breakthrough, a truth that can no longer be ignored or softened. Sharp, direct, and necessary.
- Wands
- Ace of Wands — The Ace of Wands is creative energy in its rawest form — a spark looking for somewhere to land. Something wants to be made. The moment to begin is now.
- Two of Wands — The Two of Wands surveys the horizon and starts to plan. The adventure hasn't started yet, but the direction is taking shape. Bold, deliberate, willing to leave what's familiar.
- Three of Wands — The Three of Wands watches the ships go out — plans already in motion, early results starting to show. Expansion is real; the horizon is further out than it was.
- Four of Wands — The Four of Wands marks the moment worth celebrating — a threshold crossed, a milestone reached, a gathering of people glad to be together.
- Five of Wands — The Five of Wands is productive friction gone loud. Everyone wants to be heard; no one's listening yet. The energy is there — it just needs a channel.
- Six of Wands — The Six of Wands is public recognition — the moment when effort becomes visible and others take notice. Earned confidence, not borrowed.
- Seven of Wands — The Seven of Wands holds the high ground under pressure. The position is worth keeping — but it takes ongoing effort to maintain it.
- Eight of Wands — The Eight of Wands is momentum. Things that were stuck are moving fast. The window to act is short; now is the time.
- Nine of Wands — The Nine of Wands is almost there and knows it. Battle-worn, cautious, still standing. One more push — not careless, but committed.
- Ten of Wands — The Ten of Wands is carrying too much for too long. Some of what's being hauled forward doesn't need to come. Putting it down isn't failure.
- Page of Wands — The Page of Wands is on fire with a new idea and not yet burdened by what it would take to build it. The energy is contagious — the follow-through comes later.
- Knight of Wands — The Knight of Wands moves with full conviction and very little patience. His passion is the best thing about him and the thing most likely to cause problems.
- Queen of Wands — The Queen of Wands knows herself — her strengths, her appetites, her direction. She doesn't ask permission. Her confidence is earned and generously shared.
- King of Wands — The King of Wands leads through vision and force of will. He's most powerful when the drive is matched by the patience to let the work take its proper time.
- Ace of Wands — The Ace of Wands is creative energy in its rawest form — a spark looking for somewhere to land. Something wants to be made. The moment to begin is now.
- Cups
- Major Arcana
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