quartz is a static site generator. I started using it originally as it was focused on publishing Obsidian Markdown notes, and used Hugo as a backend, which was appealing as I'd used it a few years ago, and liked Go. Since then, v4 of quartz has become a Typescript based "fast, batteries-included static-site generator that transforms Markdown content into fully functional websites".

The author, Jacky Zhao seems like a really great person! I stumbled across their blog a few times in the past. They wrote a lot about independent research, and I related a lot to what I think is their underlying gut feeling of the value and fun of frolicking in interesting knowledge, information and solutions, with a tinge of frustration at the feeling that society in general doesn't see it the same way.

2024-03-30

Did some changes to Quartz over the past couple of months, I'll push my fork to Github.

A few little things I tweaked:

• changed the sidebars to be fixed
• some tweaks so fewer things are hidden in mobile mode
• added support for pageLayout in frontmatter to override default layout
• switched the git library to get modified times from git commits
• support for index/folder pages to be folder names instead of "index"
• this change is a bit buggy, this was the one that made me realise I don't find the codebase intuitive

I think some of these things have been fixed in the official repo now too.