It's fun to publish your thoughts.

Static site generators have existed forever, but being able to supplement them with the existing infrastructure that Obsidian already offers turns the web development experience into one backed by a whole new type of spit and tape.

Wordpress did for gunpowder what the printing press has done for the mind, and being able to democratise a user-ready CMS built on an open platform into a website promises a resurgence of Neocities-esque 'weird and wonderful' websites popping up. The heyday of the internet may just be dawning upon a world completely silo'd and isolated by corporate interests.

Next steps surely then include the ability to cross-network across these impromptu cities in a decentralised way, to give the experience a cohesive through-line. United not in platform but in vibe. Something like this exists, and it's called Tildeverse Banner Exchange. Kinda cool, check it out.

Anyway, this is all to extol the virtue of Digital Gardens. It's a pretty cool concept. And the Obsidian Digital Garden project can get you up-and-running incredibly quickly. With a little bit of hacking, you can even have a fully-fledged site, and break out of any of the more content-managementy parts of the application pretty trivially.

Try it!