This post is less of a tutorial, and more of a short demonstration of a cool tool. This quick little project was inspired by Theo Browne’s video about his custom search engine Unduck, which functions primarily as an alternative to DuckDuckGo Bangs - a neat feature that allows you to search countless different websites using one of ~13,562 different “Bangs” in your search.
In his video, Theo demonstrated how setting the browser’s default search engine to Unduck allowed him to conveniently use Bangs anywhere - especially with Zen Browser’s pop-up search bar.
For the last few months I’ve been pouring a lot of my free time into studying and portfolio projects as I work towards beginning a career in cloud engineering & DevOps. Today marks a major milestone, as I’ve completed the Cloud Resume Challenge. You can view my resume at gagelara.com and check out the GitHub Repository here. In this blog post I’ll be talking a little bit about my experience with this project.
For a few years now I’ve run my life in Obsidian. Everything - including research, project management, TTRPG notes, and this post you’re reading now - lives in my personal Obsidian vault. I recently refactored this “second brain” of mine and begin sharing my notes online as an exercise in “learning in public”.
There’s a number of tools for sharing your markdown notes online, including Obsidian’s own great publish service. However, given my own enthusiasm for DIY approaches I decided it’d be better (and more fun) to host my own solution: enter Quartz, a fast and easy to use static site generator purpose built for publishing markdown notes that I could host on GitHub Pages for free.
