The Great Migration – Oren Bochman’s Blog

I was able to stand on the shoulders of giants (Rapp 2022) (Navarro 2022), (Hill 2022), (Kaye 2022) when I migrated this blog.

Rapp, Albert. 2022. “The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Quarto Blog.” June 24, 2022. https://albert-rapp.de/posts/13_quarto_blog_writing_guide/13_quarto_blog_writing_guide.html.

Navarro, Danielle. 2022. “Porting a Distill Blog to Quarto.” April 20, 2022. https://blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2022-04-20_porting-to-quarto.

Hill, Alison. 2022. “We Don’t Talk about Quarto.” April 4, 2022. https://www.apreshill.com/blog/2022-04-we-dont-talk-about-quarto/.

Kaye, Ella. 2022. “Welcome to My Quarto Website!” December 11, 2022. https://ellakaye.co.uk/posts/2022-12-11_welcome-quarto.

Markdown

Quarto’s markdown isn’t my favorite markdown implementation.
It is based on pandoc spec

The devil is in the details

There are lots of details that should be in the guide that are scattered all over the quarto site.

I decided that all posts should have the following fields in their front matter:

title
subtitle
description
date
categories
image
image-description

Virtual Environments

are documented here
ideal one can have one virtual environment for the whole site

Lightbox Galleries

so far I used this only in the this page

the light box plugin was integrated into Quarto in the version 4.1 which I migrated to. I have been using light box to make notes of talks and so on. So in for this blog adding light boxes is a breeze.

All that’s really needed is to change setting in the frontmatter:

lightbox: true

which I did for all posts by adding the setting to the _metadata.yaml in the posts directory. And now all images default to opening within their own lightbox when clicked upon.

to disable the feature say, on a logo for example just add .no-lightbox css style to the image like this:

![caption](filename.png){.no-lightbox}

if you want to be able to scroll through a series of images we need to decorate each images as follows:

![caption](filename.png){group="my-gallery"}

An added bonus is that it is possible to zoom into these light-boxed images

Extras

the about page is based on postcards package
icons for navigation come from bootstrap
cover images are from pexels

Open issues:

can I readily integrate books and presentation into this blog ?
- can I drop them in or do I need to build them in another repo
- then deploy
- then link!?
how about embedding repls
how about embedding shiny live apps

https://github.com/shafayetShafee

Embedding PDF

installation

quarto add jmgirard/embedpdf

{{< pdf dummy.pdf >}}
{{< pdf dummy.pdf width=100% height=800 >}}
{{< pdf dummy.pdf border=1 >}}
{{< pdf dummy.pdf class=myclass >}}

Citation

BibTeX citation:

@online{bochman2024,
  author = {Bochman, Oren},
  title = {The {Great} {Migration}},
  date = {2024-01-30},
  url = {https://orenbochman.github.io/posts/2023/2023-05-10-migration-notes/},
  langid = {en}
}

For attribution, please cite this work as:

Bochman, Oren. 2024. “The Great Migration.” January 30, 2024. https://orenbochman.github.io/posts/2023/2023-05-10-migration-notes/.