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Today’s Report

creating a new blog with Quartz, but I keep catching myself falling into a trap of “I want to make everything look perfect before I publish it!“. Despite spending the day jotting down my thoughts about over-engineering killing my dreams, I can’t seem to stop myself.

The stopping point for today will probably be a vague “do I feel like I’ve written enough to cover, at a base level, the anchor tags of what I want to write.” I still do want to do some weird D3.js fuckery to Quartz’s network graph where major “anchor” tags are locked to the outside of a circle (or some other shape) with extending graphs moving inward, but I am unfortunately blocked by not knowing how to debug with Quartz’s weird custom CLI build process.

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Actually, it looks like the Quartz author just got back to me - QuartzComponents are built…

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Actually, it looks like the Quartz author just got back to me - QuartzComponents are built…

too late? too early? I still don’t know enough about frontend development to fully understand how Quartz works under-the-hood or totally what that message means.

TL;DR something about the Quartz build process means that I can’t use DevTools in a browser to debug Quartz components. Yesterday I was researching CodePens (or, more specifically, VSCode-inline CodeSwings) as a better workflow for my not-design-or-frontend-savvy self to develop these components in isolation. While I do still want to do some deep customizations to the way the Quartz Graph component works, I have decided (just now, as I’m writing) to leave this as a stretch goal, and instead prioritize getting this blog out as-is and customizing it to my liking later.

More work to be done in the endless struggle to avoid putting horses before carts, or whatever.

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UGH. This damn homelab server sucked me in again in this evening. A linux LVM is… oddly difficult to resize to the size of its new physical partition, and setting up a live disk to do that is incredibly stubborn. I’m in a difficult position with a goal and a few constraints:

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To get around this, I’ve settled (currently) on using Linux Live Kit on a virtualized Debian instance, customized with everything I need, and then doing a hardware passthrough of the USB drive to load the customized distro as a recovery disk. Ultimately, this means:

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this has sucked… a lot of time out of my life, most of which could’ve been better spent? and i’m debating whether or not to weather the clutter of moving a monitor back into the bedroom to just handle this.

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Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln…

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I did end up getting… a somewhat MVP up for the landing page of the site?

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By all accounts, this doesn’t look good, but it at least has the logo available with… kinda? a title? ish?

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There is a massive amount of frustration around having goals that require frontend know-how, despite not knowing frontend very well. I am debating, at the moment, the merits of continuing to use Quartz for the blog. I really like it on a design level, and specifically am very excited to dig into fixing what is ultimately Obsidian Publish’s unhelpful & messy (IMHO) network graph layout.

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Quartz, notably, is… weird? I think? The vibe I get is that Quartz was developed primarily for an audience who want, at a base level, to simply deploy an Obsidian vault onto the web without dealing with too much technical cruft. To that end, a lot of the actual frontend fundamental concepts seem to be abstracted away.

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Looking through the Quartz Showcase, there’s not a whole lot of structural changes made in most of these examples. This throws out a bit of an orange flag, making me a bit nervous that the framework itself wasn’t intended (at a base level) to be very extensible2.

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It feels, somewhat, like an opinionated piece of software.

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The tricky thing about opinionated software is that, when you pick it up as a beginner, it’s hard to separate whether or not the things you’re learning are:

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That said, I don’t know if I have much of an option - from what I can tell, the closest OSS alternatives to Obsidian Publish are typically Gatsby and Jekyll themes - both of which I’ve used previously for this site, to mixed results.

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    The read-only OS for the steam deck isn’t actually read only, since you can disable that, but it is substantially restrained in its ability to do normal arch-y things like disk management. I’m also running into the issue of Pacman’s GPG key database is still complaining that it’s read-only and locked. Not sure what that’s all about ¯\(ツ)/¯ ↩

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