Building a personal website using Quarto. Based on Quarto's own website.

Note, this is designed to work a local copy of mathjax, stored in a top-level directory /es5, so that math will render even offline.

There are some extra scripts required because of some missing Quarto features.

For example, backlinks are not supported, so it is required to independently parse all internal links in all pages and construct .yml files with the backlinks (stored in backlinks/) that get referred to in each file.

Furthermore, some content is shared amongst multiple files. This is handled via include statements. One includes a .md file into possibly many .qmd files. However, quarto preview does not update the .qmd file when the .md file changes, so a fswatch process must be launched in order to touch the relevant .qmd files.

The categories ⚪, 🔴, 🟠, 🟢, 🟣 are used to distinguish the various levels of polish of notes. White being for stubs / to-dos, red being for very messy, etc.

• What perspective is a page being written from? E.g. in "Universals". I do not want to maintain a wikipedia standard that every claim needs a citation, but it's nice to know who is accountable for what is written:
  • "X from the perspective of Y"?
  • My own take on a particular source?
  • My own synthesis of multiple sources?
  • Solution for now:
    • all personal commentary is relegated to the blog. These can be very short and just link the main article and add a paragraph.
    • main note content has "According to ..." clauses when points that are especially controversial are made. Implicitly everything is a bit biased given that I'm writing it and have selected to read from certain sources. If it makes sense I could put at the top of certain notes that it is from the perspective of a particular source, though in that case perhaps it should be in the works/ folder.
• How to organize the concepts/definitions?
  • What even is a definition?