Welcome To My Blog
I’m using Quarto to begin my blog journey.
What kinds of posts might you find here?
Currently, I’m working through the Tidy Modeling with R book by Max Kuhn and Julia Silge. So I might have some posts related to that. Who knows what other types of posts I’ll be writing here. I shall make no promises nor predictions.
Dark theme blog
I love reading in dark mode. There are a handful of available dark themes that come pre-installed with Quarto:
I was a fan of Slate until I realized I didn’t like the vertical lines it has in places like the navigation bar.
I was also very tempted by how cool Vapor looks. I still am. But in the end, I wanted simplicity in my theme and decided not to use any of these. I was following along with Albert Rapp’s ultimate guide to starting a Quarto blog and decided to build on his theme.scss example to customize my blog’s settings. This made it easy to figure out a minimum set of variables to configure to get the dark theme setup. Here are the variables to modify if you’re interested in setting up a simple dark theme:
snippet of my theme-dark.scss
$body-bg: $black !default;
$body-color: $white !default;
$code-color: #bb8acf !default;
$code-block-bg: #212529 !default;
$code-block-border-left: #bb8acf !default;What’s next?
I might add a list of bloggers and articles that have helped or inspired me along the way. But otherwise, that’s all for this post for now.
Happy blogging! ⌨️✨
