hi! I'm Amber.
This is my digital garden: half-finished notes, things I'm learning, coloring pages, and whatever I'm into this week.
Polymath, hobby collector, technomancer, and chronic over-thinker in the PNW. Professional maintainer of an unreasonable browser tab count.
today's page
“What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives.”
learning
- Universal Principles of Design
- SEO, AEO, GEO
- algebra review (sort of)
someday: physics, philosophy, engineering, neuroscience
the garden
how grown is it? sprout a fragment or question, just planted sapling has a real point, still changing old growth what I actually think, for now how this garden grows →fresh off the coloring table
see the whole gallery →things I made
prism.logs — this site, my playground for technical fun and creative expression.
Mini Printer Collage — free collage layouts for tiny photo printers, because my printer's app didn't have any.
Local Finance Ledger — chat with your own financial data, entirely offline, with Ollama.
on my nightstand
reading now
- Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata
- Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix
- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab
just finished
- One of Our Kind by Nicola Yoon
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didionmost of it, skipping around before the library took my ebook back
up next
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- All Riches Come From Injustice by Stephen D. Morrison
open in a tab
I Confronted Paolo Zampolli: Here’s What Happened — Bekah Day is a fantastic researcher helping uncover truth.
The Drey Dossier — Audrey Henson does fantastic open-source investigative journalism.
Where Are People Shopping? — Jaimi Stewart did the work to create an epic quality shopping guide.
How to Use AI Without Using Data — Shae Omonijo. This article is essential, but browse the whole substack.
queued up
A chaotic guide to making stuff instead of doomscrolling — struthless on getting out of your head and out of overwhelm, into momentum and making things.
Gabriel Torch — my favorite for AI and science updates, especially biocomputing and brain organoids.
Not Sorry ART — where I've been learning simple painting techniques lately.
Lynsay Green Art — a comfort channel. Her accent is lovely to listen to, and her art is so colorful, vibrant and happy.
Katie Lyman — another comfort channel, and where I learned about painty papers for my art journaling and crafts.
site changelog
10.16.26 reading cards for books, articles and videos
10.16.26 torn paper, tape and painted stickers all over the site
10.06.26 prism.logs 2.0, a sketchbook garden written in Obsidian
03.28.26 top songs added to the record player
03.23.26 blog launched, prism favicon, teal code blocks