Using GIMP, I edited a picture of myself with glasses on the back of my head such that it looked like that was my head, and then a minor color modification of the blue glasses created the favicon that you see today.
Is it good?
shhhhh
context
This is the icon
I feel obliged to include this after my father read this page and thought I was crazy because nowhere on the actual website was this image findable.
And yes, I somehow failed to select parts of the ceiling tile seams when I was making this in GIMP, sue me.
Analytics
I opted to use PostHog analytics for the site, for three reasons:
The design of their website was really cool and suggested that the company was fun1
I, technical imbecile that I am, have no idea what most of the stuff on my dashboard does in any way. What I do know is that implementing it was more difficult than I would have liked. As I learn how the dashboard works, I’ll update this section.
Vibe-coded plugin that offers a (hopefully) growing number of accessibility and quality of life features for readers. Current features are a font switcher for Comic Sans, Open Dyslexic, and Atkinson Hyperlegible and a beeline adjacent reading mode. Hopeful future features include a reading ruler, paragraph shader, and line and letter spacing configuration.
Vibe-coded plugin that adds a random note button to the toolbar alongside the dark mode and reader mode controls. In addition to directing the user to a random page, the die icon randomly rolls when clicked, providing a helpful quality of life feature for users who need dice and only have access this site.2
In order to have the button appear in your toolbar and not below your explorer, you must add group: toolbar to the layout configuration in quartz.config.yaml so that it looks like this:
- source: github:UndefeatedOrca/quartz-random-note enabled: true options: label: Open a random note includeCurrentPage: false order: 50 layout: position: left group: toolbar priority: 55
File Direct Downloads
Vibe-coded plugin to make links direct downloads when they aren’t images, pdfs, or markdown.
When you look at a tag page, at the top you’ll see links to any parent or child tags. This is helpful for two reasons
You might want to read all of the nature poems but found one about snow first. Default Quartz requires you to manually edit your url to find the nested tag.
Sometimes I misspell tags and the only way to find the rest of tags is to look in the parent and verify that there’s no strange modifications
While in Quartz 4 this was done by modifying ./quartz/quartz/components/pages/TagContent.tsx, in Quartz 5, with Tag Pages implemented in the plugin system, I had to fork the TagPages plugin.
# remove existing tag page pluginnpx quartz plugin remove tag-page# add the forked pluginnpx quartz plugin add github:UndefeatedOrca/tag-page-genealogy
Holiday Calendar
This plugin displays notes based on the ‘holiday’ frontmatter element with a configurable number of days to look ahead and a number of built in calculations for the liturgical calendar and a few other moving holidays. For my full write up, see the Holiday Calendar plugin page.
To appear only on the front page, the plugin uses a custom condition registered in quartz.ts and added to the plugin’s format section of quartz.config.yaml.
Discontinued Modifications
poem-frontmatter.cjs
This can still be found in the v4 branch of the repo. It is no longer used, and I only put it there because I had no idea where else to put it.
This is a small script that Claude wrote to import the multitude of poems. I’m not sure that it was a total improvement, but it finds files in the ./content folder with the name format “YY-MM-DD - title” and adds or edits frontmatter so that the date created reflects the date in the file name, the title the date except the day of the month, and any tags at the end of the body are inserted into the frontmatter. I’m still conflicted about the choice to include the day, and need to do further testing to see if order is based on title or file name.
