Share your Quarto blog ✨

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+1! Excellent advice. This is exactly what I try to do as well :smile:

Another trick that works really well for me is to seek feedback on your writing early and often (as @ForBo7 would testify :wink:). I’ve started doing that and found it really motivating

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This is dope. Your website was already great, I appreciate the effort you take to make it better every time.

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:wink: :wink:

Yeah, that definitely is a good trick; also helps to refine, focus, and improve the writing.

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Wow, I’m really glad you like it! It’s motivating to know this! :smiley:

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I have a problem with my blog, as far as I can tell no one has ever seen it. I set up an independently hosted quarto blog but I don’t have the cross linking that we would get with a medium or towards data science blog. Can we get a few folks together with Quarto / fast pages blogs and write some plugin to link to each other’s blogs?

My blog is here BTW: https://sam.ucm.dev/blog

I’ve been neglecting it a bit due to the aforementioned fatal issue of no readership! It’s all very well for celebrities like Mr Howard to use indie blogs, but mine is dead in the water.

Also, some of you don’t have RSS set up; it is kind of required for a blog I would think.

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Also FWIW, I used GPT-4 to help write my latest post from an existing script, and it did maybe 95% of the work. That will help me overcome the laziness barrier and blog more often!!

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A website could be created (with Quarto) that stores links to other people’s blogs. If somebody wants to add their website to the directory, a simple pull request could be made. Individual blogs could also link back to this directory.

However, the problem of discoverability would still remain. It may be better to post your posts in multiple places — such as on Medium and on your blog.

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I am back to blogging! It has been 6 months. I wrote the following post around the barriers I faced and shared some tips to overcome them. It as a reminder to myself as well.

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I really like your post. I feel so identified with every feeling you’ve mentioned. Right now, I’m struggling to write my first blog post, so I came across this post just when I needed it the most.

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That’s really overwhelming to know. Wish you the best on your first post. Please share here once you publish it :blush:.

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Yep, I promise!

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Anyone tried creating PDF documents with Quarto? There seems a bit of friction, creating websites is easy but not PDFs :slightly_smiling_face:. I am running into one errors after errors. It requires Ruby, etc.

If anyone has gone through the process of exporting PDF documents through Quarto, I would love to know the workflow.

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Here is my blog: https://ahadjawaid.github.io/
Let me know how it is I’m still working on it. :smiley:

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It’s shaping up nicely!

Also, your post on implementing research papers is much, much better now :smiley:; much more concise and in turn engaging.

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I don’t think it requires Ruby or anything else of the sort. How are you generating the PDFs?

I’ve generated PDFs before without requiring any other dependency. I did it through the following command.

quarto render my_doc.qmd --to my_doc.pdf

Also, best to respond to this in DMs so this thread stays on-topic.

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Thanks!

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It resonated with me very well. I am going through one of that phase. Thanks for sharing and nudging others. :slightly_smiling_face:

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