● Stub Pages

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A problem that wiki-linked digital gardenA digital garden is a website that grows in public instead of publishing in the finished, dated-post format of a blog. Entries get revised in place, start rough and get filled in over time, and are organized by association rather… run into is figuring out what happens when you reference a note that doesn't exist on disk yet.

A traditional website would 404. This site turns it into a stub instead. A stub is a minimal file with type: stub and no body, so the link resolves, the target page exists, and it immediately starts collecting backlinks even though nothing has been written yet.

The dead-link scanner reads raw markdown source, not rendered HTML, so it doesn't know the difference between a real wikilink and a double-bracket example inside a code span for illustration.

A stub is a to-do list item as much as it is a page. The next daily entry could just as easily be filling one in as starting something new.