My Digital Garden

Who is me? 🐣

Hello, there! 👋
My name is Denys and I am a curious soul, a lifelong learner. I was born in Kherson, Ukraine (if someone is interested...) and currently live in Kyiv, where I study at KSE (Kyiv School of Economics) for an AI engineer 🤖
I am passionate about maths and its beautiful applications in the real world 😍
I believe that learning is a journey, and this digital garden is where my thoughts, ideas, and lessons bloom. 🌿
I follow the Zettelkasten method, where every note links to another, forming a rich network of insights.

What is a Digital Garden?

A digital garden is a mix between a notebook and a blog, it is a place to share thoughts and cultivate them into a garden. It also allows me to have a place where I can store my notes/summaries/tutorials for my studies.

The main difference to a blog is that a blog has articles and publication dates and never changes after it has been published, whereas a digital garden is a place where the written content can be continuously edited and refined. The notes are also very free flowing they can span from just a short cheatsheet to a full set of notes on an entire subject where you go into every nitty-gritty detail.

Another key difference is the navigation. A blog is usually read in chronological order but a digital garden can be read in any order you want and uses lots of internal links to connect all the notes into a Network (although this can be quite hard to diligently do).

If you are interested in learning more about digital gardens I can recommend the following article by Maggie Appleton.

Why This Garden Exists 🌼

I created this space to:

• 🌱 Cultivate knowledge from my studies and experiences.
• 📚 Connect dots between different subjects and disciplines.
• 💡 Share insights with future me (and maybe you too). Tbh, here I locate only public notes, I have a lot of other in private access.

How was my Garden Built? 🛠️

Creating this digital garden wasn’t just about putting notes online — it was about building a home for my thoughts. Here’s a little behind-the-scenes look at how this garden grew from an idea to reality:

Tools and Frameworks

• 📝 Note-taking System: I use Obsidian to draft and interlink my notes using the Zettelkasten method. This method turns my thoughts into a network, helping me discover unexpected connections.
• 🖥️ Markdown for Structure: All my notes are written in Markdown, a simple and powerful format that keeps my focus on content rather than formatting.
• 💻 Version Control: I store everything in a GitHub repository, so my garden always has a history. Mistakes can’t kill the plants — they only help them grow!
• 🌐 Publishing Platform: I use Digital Garden plugin in Obsidian along with Netlify to deploy these notes as a rendered HTML page.

The Structure: How I Organize Notes 💡

Tbh, for now I do not have specific structure, but I am working on it 🙃
Since I am a student at KSE, I have a folder for my studies there, where I store all the notes from the lectures and seminars. You can find them in the left sidebar.

Furthermore, you can see the graph of my notes on the right side of the page. It is generated by the Obsidian and this is the main feature of the Zettelkasten method. So try to use it to navigate through the notes, this kinda fun.

I also use:

• 📆 Table of contents: ToC is really helpful to navigate to specific heading inside the note.
• 🌐 Backlinks: To show connections between ideas.
• 📅 Dates: To keep track of when notes were created or updated.
• 📂 Tags: To categorize notes and make them easier to find. (use Ctrl + K to find the specific note/tag)

Notes You Can Explore 📂

• OOP in .NET
• Functional Programming. Lambda Calculus
• Discrete Mathematics
• Optimization Techniques
• Digital Business
• Intro to Economics

Buy Me a Coffee ☕

Aghm... Tbh, I wasn’t planning to add this section 😅 — but some of my friends who’ve read my notes insisted that I should! So, here it is...

If you enjoy my notes and find them helpful, you can support my work by buying me a coffee ☕. It will motivate me to continue my work on this digital garden and make it better ☺️

If you'd like to support me, here’s the link: Buy Me a Coffee ❤️

Thank you so much in advance! Your support truly means the world to me. 🙏✨

KSE Haunt Event | Stage 4

I don’t remember when it all went dark.

Somewhere between the dreams and the echoes, I left something behind.

Maybe Quieter times once Laughed,
or Whispers from the past trying to wake me.

Who knows if we’ll _a_ctually find Answers?

Maybe 8 nights of silence unraveled zer0 hope...

Do you still Hear the Distant Drumbeats?

Maybe that’s how dreams persist.

Pray. Xpect Nothing.Prepare.

8 is the final key.