---
title: "garden.exe · Renée Shaw"
description: "A posting accountability garden. Four flowers, one per platform. Posting waters them, silence wilts them. Only a new post revives one."
canonical: "https://reneeshaw.co/garden"
last_updated: "2026-09-15"
---

# garden.exe

Markdown mirror of https://reneeshaw.co/garden. The live page is interactive and needs
JavaScript. This file describes what it does.

A content accountability garden. Each flower is a platform. It blooms when Renée posts and
wilts when she goes quiet: one bud per post in the last 30 days.

Visitors can grab the watering can and water a flower, and everyone who visits afterwards
sees it. But visitor water is only encouragement. Only a new post actually revives a flower.
Watering also unlocks a note on WALL_OF_SUPPORT.TXT.

## Data sources

- **Substack** and **YouTube** update themselves via RSS, through the read-only endpoint at [/api/garden](https://reneeshaw.co/api/garden).
- **X** and **LinkedIn** have no public feed, so those are logged by hand in [/garden-manual.json](https://reneeshaw.co/garden-manual.json) and merged client-side. They may lag a day or two.

Shared state (which flowers have been watered, and the notes) is held by playhtml.

## Sitemap

- [Home](https://reneeshaw.co/) ([markdown](https://reneeshaw.co/index.md))
- [garden.exe](https://reneeshaw.co/garden) ([markdown](https://reneeshaw.co/garden.md))
- [Media kit](https://reneeshaw.co/media-kit.md)
- [llms.txt](https://reneeshaw.co/llms.txt) and [llms-full.txt](https://reneeshaw.co/llms-full.txt)
- [Site map, markdown](https://reneeshaw.co/sitemap.md) and [XML](https://reneeshaw.co/sitemap.xml)
- [AGENTS.md](https://reneeshaw.co/AGENTS.md)
- [AI catalog](https://reneeshaw.co/.well-known/ai-catalog.json) and [OpenAPI spec](https://reneeshaw.co/openapi.json)