The beginning steps of what I did are in this article I wrote (Publishing on Quartz — Simple & Effective).
In addition, I had a strange error:
Failed to create deployment (status: 404) with build version (bunch of numbers). Request ID (bunch of numbers) Ensure GitHub Pages has been enabled:
This is strange because I let Cloudflare Workers host my site by using the Github repo, I didn’t think that I used Github Pages at all. Having already cut into my lunch break… I decided to wait a while because DuckDuckGo’s AI said it could just be a network problem (I only use their AI when I’m in a rush and think there’s a quick solution).
Where I write these
There’s plenty of options to write a simple text file (well, .md actually), and that’s in Obsidian itself. (Image)
The perks is that I can edit the appearance (Terminal theme) and write naturally. The downside is that when I try to add HTML like p (I ain’t gonna mess up my doc today), even though Obsidian displays the code like a code editor, any # that are used to make headings get messed up. In the image above shows what my Obsidian looks like for writing, because I use ML4W dotfiles w/ Arch Linux OS and typing the command “grimblast save area “name” ” in a different window, the unused window being screenshotted looks faded and shows my desktop wallpaper, so that’s why it looks a lil’ weird.
Coding setup
The day I chose Neovim was the day I felt smart. Ok not exactly, in fact I felt very dumb when beginning to use it until I used (Escape button) :w command to write the file in more than half the time unlike Nano (Ctrl+what?). (image)
Why I wanted to start a Digital Garden
A digital garden is like pre-modern internet (as in internet years, that is). The days that Snowflake (sorry, if I say his name I think the gov will be eyeing my site) talked about when the internet had the freedom to do anything. Sure, it didn’t look pretty, but the websites then were functional and mirrored why computers and the internet were invented in the first-place: to problem-solve, creativity, and (input here) to join in “combining communication and computing”, that quote comes from one of the first guys to invent the internet, one of the early websites. I discuss this more in a deep dive where I make notes on the book Innovation by Walter Isaacson just because I’m curious. I’ll be updating this deep dive, Early Computing, over time. As a second brain. Also I’ve always loved rabbit holes, to go from one topic to the next and link them together, that’s what’s so cool about the Obsidian graph. While it gives me information overload to go through others, . This serves as a reference to myself as a reminder of my growth when I’m older.
Another update… The dang thing on the left-hand side to see files and settings disappeared again, it’s because the Terminal theme is unfinished, I know, but I forget the shortcut key to bring it back!! AAHHHHHHH. The only way I can think then is to go through settings and change theme, but boy I love it when the dang article says to click “settings” to see the hotkey for settings 😑
Ok I got it, it’s Ctrl+, the one good use of info from DuckDuckGo AI. In case I need it again and search through my docs, here I’ll spell it out, “TO REACH SETTINGS ON TERMINAL THEME PRESS THE DANG CTRL+,” (settings hotkey Ctrl+,).