Quick notes on AI, dev tools, workflow hacks, and occasional facepalms.
Quarto extensions like iconify can be installed using: This creates an _extensions directory in your project root with the extension files. The Problem Quarto resolves extension paths relative to each document’s location instead of the project root: Here’s the directory…
The Problem By default, Quarto’s listing pages show thumbnails for each post. Even if you don’t have images, it still reserves space for them, creating unnecessary whitespace. The Solution In your listing page (e.g., index.qmd), configure the listing like this:…
By default you can only use built-in icons in cards in Astro Starlight. Like this: <Card title="This is a card" icon="star"> – ✨ Some text here </Card> And it will render like this: But you may want additional icons, that…
Update: This blog is currently in WordPress because having it in Astro meant I had to tinker a lot more with it, and decided it’s not a priority now. Was a hard pill to swallow, but had to do it.…