Quartz sync: Sep 23, 2023, 3:45 PM

content/Essays/law-school.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 title: On Law School
 tags:
   - essay
-  - incomplete
+  - seedling
 date: 2023-09-20
 draft: true
 ---

content/Essays/productivity.md

@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 title: How You can Increase your Productivity
 tags:
   - productivity
-  - incomplete
   - essay
+  - seedling
 date: 9-08-23
 ---
 This article is split into four sections: 

content/Essays/why-i-garden.md

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 ---
 title: Why I Garden
 tags:
-  - incomplete
   - cloud
   - essay
+  - seedling
 date: 9-08-23
 ---
 ## Short answer: fun.

content/Programs I Like/code-editors.md

@@ -3,13 +3,18 @@ title: Code Editors
 tags:
   - productivity
   - programming
-date: 9-07-23
+  - seedling
+date: 2023-09-07
 ---
-Below are my two favorite ways to write code. Let's start with the big one:
+CBelow are my two favorite ways to write code. Let's start with the big one:
 ## Visual Studio Code
 This little gem of a text editor ended up taking the world by storm because it delivered open-source compartmentalization and configuration in an enterprise package. 
 
-[VSCode](https://code.visualstudio.com/) arose out of a common hatred for 
+[VSCode](https://code.visualstudio.com/) arose out of a common hatred for the Visual Studio IDE, which follows the Windows design philosophy and, as a result, is a bloated and unusable mess.
+
+Instead of the "workload", where Visual Studio installs everything needed to develop a certain kind of application, VSCode offers the "extension": all the IDE features and syntax highlighting needed to develop in a language, but leaves language servers and compilers to the rest of your system. As such, it's extremely lightweight, not to mention cross-platform thanks to its use of the Electron framework. 
+
+Another of the features that I like is cosmetic customization. VSCode has a massive 
 ## Neovim
 Sometimes, the [[Misc/keys|most efficient solution]] only arises because it was technically necessary, yet when advancements make it no longer necessary, the initial route proves subpar. you just want to bang out a few lines of code, hit save, and go back to whatever you were doing before. This is [Neovim](https://neovim.io/).
 

content/Programs I Like/hundred-rabbits.md

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ title: Hundred Rabbits Ecosystem
 tags:
   - community
   - creators
+  - seedling
 date: 9-08-23
 ---
 Hundred Rabbits has a collection of programs and APIs that reflect the kind of project base I really like.

content/Programs I Like/matrix.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 title: Matrix
 tags:
   - social
-  - incomplete
+  - seedling
 date: 9-08-23
 ---
 Matrix is a decentralized, independently federated chat server protocol.

content/Programs I Like/obsidian.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 ---
 title: Obsidian
 tags:
-  - incomplete
   - productivity
+  - seedling
 date: 9-08-23
 ---
 > Obsidian is the private and flexible note‑taking app that adapts to the way you think.

content/Programs I Like/on-the-fediverse.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ aliases:
   - fediverse
 tags:
   - social
-  - incomplete
+  - seedling
 date: 2023-09-08
 ---
 I recently started looking into the ideology behind the fediverse. Long story short, I like what I see, and will be looking into a project with it soon.

content/Projects/Obsidian/livesync.md

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: LiveSync
 tags:
   - cloud
   - difficulty-advanced
-  - incomplete
+  - seedling
 date: 9-08-23
 ---
 Setting up LiveSync was pretty tumultuous. Obsidian has a paid feature called [Obsidian Sync](https://obsidian.md/sync), which accomplishes the same thing, but I have a webserver and determination!

content/Projects/keyboards.md

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ tags:
   - diy
   - keyboard
   - difficulty-easy
+  - seedling
 draft: true
 date: 9-08-23
 ---

content/Projects/my-cloud.md

@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ title: My Cloud
 tags:
   - cloud
   - essay
-  - incomplete
   - difficulty-moderate
+  - seedling
 date: 9-08-23
 ---
 A list of things that I do with cloud servers.

content/Updates/2023/sept.md

@@ -3,12 +3,13 @@ title: Summary of Changes for September 2023
 draft: true
 tags:
   - "#update"
+date: 2023-09-30
 ---
-
 ## Housekeeping
 I'm going to start tracking lists of changes that happen during the previous month! This should provide a nice little bump to the RSS feed since I edit pages post-creation a lot.
 
 There'll also be a small blog component to it.
+- I'm proud to announce that the title of this garden is now Projects & Privacy! Originally, I worried about putting a privacy focus on here, but then I realized that privacy was a significant part of almost all of my projects and everything [[Projects/my-cloud|that I host]].
 - Law school is back in full swing! I'm juggling a lot of computer projects as well as coursework, so this site might slow a bit.
 - I did a vegan cheese party with some friends (they're vegan, not me) and made a cheese platter, margherita pizza, and some fried mozz sticks. Here's the result:
 
@@ -18,7 +19,8 @@ There'll also be a small blog component to it.
 - I added comments with Remark42, and documented it [[Projects/Obsidian/quartz-comments|here]].
 - I started fleshing out [[Projects/my-computer|My Computer]].
 - I'm researching and angling to fully write through the essay on [[Essays/why-i-garden|Why I Garden]].
-- I'm working towards writing an essay on law school and its problems as an institution. 
+- I'm working towards writing an essay on law school and its problems as an institution. Nothing to report yet.
+- I've refactored some things to come more into alignment with how a digital garden normally looks, including using #seedling as a tag. My goal is to get this site on its feet with a better theme and a few substantial essays and then submit it to the Quartz Showcase for some publicity. I'll also plug it on Mastodon if I ever set up an account there.
 ## Status Updates
 - I finally got around to looking into Mastodon and the Fediverse more broadly. The ideas are *insanely* cool. Expect pages and maybe projects on it in future.
 - I swapped from a custom compiled Zen kernel to the CachyOS-Bore-EEVDF kernel available in the Copr repos, and holy crap, the performance is night and day. All of the options in games that would lock my CPU-bound EGPU setup to less than 60 frames are now open to me, and graphical fidelity is better than ever.

content/about-me.md

@@ -11,4 +11,6 @@ I'm a law student aiming to practice in intellectual property litigation. Massiv
 I obsess over minimizing my digital footprint with respect to services where the users are viewed as the product. See my thoughts [[Programs I Like/on-self-hosted-software|on Self-Hosted Software]] for more.
 
 ## By...Hobby
-I enjoy rock climbing, building & flying FPV drones, reading, and baking.
+I enjoy rock climbing, building & flying FPV drones, reading, and baking.
+
+I can be found in your local cafe, sipping something more dessert than coffee and typing furiously into a legal document or class outline.

content/index.md

@@ -4,40 +4,38 @@ tags:
   - toc
 date: 9-08-23
 ---
+> [!tip] 
+> You will own **nothing**, and you will be **happy**.
+
+Projects and free, open innovation are the backbone of the internet. The modern internet, dominated by intrusive web applications and closed-source programs, is antithetical to that idea. **I believe in keeping your learning public, but your data private**. These are just a few of the reasons that I decided to start this website. 
 # Welcome!
 You're on a site called a [[Misc/what-is-a-garden|Digital Garden]]. Here's some info on [[Essays/why-i-garden|Why I Garden]].
 
-Feel free to subscribe to [this site's RSS feed](/index.xml) for the latest updates whenever I post.
+This site changes often. Feel free to subscribe to [this site's RSS feed](/index.xml) for a ping every time I make a new entry. You can also check [[Updates]] for a monthly list of changes.
+> [!question] What can I see here?
+> I [[about-me|(me, myself)]] write about:
+> - Projects I've undertaken and programs that I've used
+> - The intersection of social issues and technology, often with a privacy-first spin
+> - Anything else that you can find in the [Explorer](https://quartz.jzhao.xyz/features/explorer) on your left
+>	- If you're on mobile, visit the [[sitemap|Sitemap]].
 
-This site changes often. Check [[Updates]] for a monthly list of changes.
+> [!Question] -> What the hell is that spiderweb thing?
+> That's the [Graph View](https://help.obsidian.md/Plugins/Graph+view). It's an [[Programs I Like/obsidian|Obsidian]] feature which acts as a map of what pages link to each other. Click on it for a map of the entire site and how it interconnects. It doesn't use Obsidian's implementation directly, but since [[Projects/Obsidian/digital-garden|the site generator I use]] is heavily inspired by Obsidian and [Obsidian Publish]( https://obsidian.md/publish ), it remains.
 
-# What can I see here?
+> [!question] -> What’s a Backlink?
-I [[about-me|(me, myself)]] write about:
+> The Backlinks pane is a list of all pages that link to this site in content. Because you’re on the homepage, it’s empty. On content pages, it’ll be more substantial and serve as a convenient navigation tool. 
-- Projects I've undertaken and programs that I've used
+## Epistemological disclosure
-- The intersection of social issues and technology, often with a privacy-first spin
-- Anything else that you can find in the [Explorer](https://quartz.jzhao.xyz/features/explorer) on your left
-	- If you're on mobile, visit the [[sitemap|Sitemap]].
-
-# What the hell is that spiderweb thing?
-That's the [Graph View](https://help.obsidian.md/Plugins/Graph+view). It's an [[Programs I Like/obsidian|Obsidian]] feature which acts as a map of what pages link to each other. Click on it for a map of the entire site and how it interconnects. It doesn't use Obsidian's implementation directly, but since the site generator I use is heavily inspired by Obsidian and [Obsidian Publish]( https://obsidian.md/publish ), it remains.
-
-# What’s a Backlink?
-The Backlinks pane is a list of all pages that link to this site in content. Because you’re on the homepage, it’s empty. On content pages, it’ll be more substantial and serve as a convenient navigation tool. 
-
-# What else do I need to know?
-### Epistemological disclosure
 Please accept that I reserve the right to be wrong on this website. I don’t claim to be an expert on any of the subject matter within. As this site reflects a learning process, I’m also liable to change my mind if I research an issue further. I’ll document if this happens. 
 
 If you don’t like how I’ve done something, feel free to write a piece in your own garden for it. I’d love to read it! It’s no secret that a lot of this garden comprises my gripes with various things. 
-### Disclaimer
+## Disclaimer
 It goes without saying that anything herein constitutes my own opinion and not the opinion of any affiliated person or entity. Nothing on this website is legal advice either. 
 
-### Attribution
+## Attribution
 Feel free to properly reference any of the content within in your own gardens or work. Don’t plagiarize. 
 
 **Do not input my work into a generative AI for any purpose, including to train or update the model, explore alternate positions to mine, or to converse with the work.** Keep the moles out of the garden. 
-
+## Privacy/Terms of Use
-### Privacy/Terms of Use
 - I don't run analytics of any kind on this site.
 - I don't share any of my content with third parties, nor do I consent to third party use of my content which I retain a copyright in.
 	- The sole exception to this policy is that third parties are permitted to link to this webpage in their own content.

content/on-linux.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ tags:
   - linux
   - cloud
   - advanced
-  - incomplete
+  - seedling
 date: 9-08-23
 ---
 This page documents my many adventures with Linux and why I enjoy it.

content/tags/seedling.md

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+---
+title: 🌱 Seedling
+---
+Seedlings are pages that haven't been around for long, or haven't been fully fleshed out.

quartz.config.ts

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import * as Plugin from "./quartz/plugins"
 const config: QuartzConfig = {
   configuration: {
     defaultDateType: "modified",
-    pageTitle: "🌱 be-far",
+    pageTitle: "🌱 Projects & Privacy",
     enableSPA: true,
     enablePopovers: true,
     analytics: null,
@@ -18,23 +18,23 @@ const config: QuartzConfig = {
       },
       colors: {
         lightMode: {
-          light: "#eff1f5",
+          light: "#dce0e8", // Backg
-          lightgray: "#dce0e8",
+          lightgray: "#bcc0cc", // Code Backg
-          gray: "#8c8fa1",
+          gray: "#8c8fa1", // Unread nodes and subtitles
-          darkgray: "#4c4f69",
+          darkgray: "#4c4f69", // Text
-          dark: "#4f4f7f",
+          dark: "#4c4f69", // Code text
-          secondary: "#40a02b",
+          secondary: "#40a02b", // Links, title, and current node
-          tertiary: "#209fb5",
+          tertiary: "#209fb5", // Visited nodes
           highlight: "rgba(143, 159, 169, 0.15)",
         },
         darkMode: {
-          light: "#1e1e2e",
+          light: "#292c3c",// Backg
-          lightgray: "#6c7086",
+          lightgray: "#6c7086", // Code Backg
-          gray: "#a6adc8",
+          gray: "#a6adc8", // Unread nodes and subtitles
-          darkgray: "#cdd6f4",
+          darkgray: "#cdd6f4", // Text
-          dark: "#cdd6f4",
+          dark: "#cdd6f4", // Code text
-          secondary: "#a6e3a1",
+          secondary: "#a6e3a1", // Links, title, and current node
-          tertiary: "#89dceb",
+          tertiary: "#89dceb", // Visited nodes
           highlight: "rgba(143, 159, 169, 0.15)",
         },
       },
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ const config: QuartzConfig = {
       Plugin.FrontMatter(),
       Plugin.TableOfContents(),
       Plugin.CreatedModifiedDate({
-        priority: ["git", "frontmatter", "filesystem"], // you can add 'git' here for last modified from Git but this makes the build slower
+        priority: ["frontmatter", "git", "filesystem"], // you can add 'git' here for last modified from Git but this makes the build slower
       }),
       Plugin.SyntaxHighlighting(),
       Plugin.ObsidianFlavoredMarkdown({ enableInHtmlEmbed: false }),

quartz/components/Explorer.tsx

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import { QuartzPluginData } from "../plugins/vfile"
 
 // Options interface defined in `ExplorerNode` to avoid circular dependency
 const defaultOptions = {
-  title: "Explorer",
+  title: "On This Site",
   folderClickBehavior: "collapse",
   folderDefaultState: "collapsed",
   useSavedState: true,

quartz/components/TableOfContents.tsx

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ function TableOfContents({ fileData, displayClass }: QuartzComponentProps) {
   return (
     <div class={`toc ${displayClass}`}>
       <button type="button" id="toc">
-        <h3>Table of Contents</h3>
+        <h3>On This Page</h3>
         <svg
           xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
           width="24"