As part of the whole [[digital garden]] exploration, one big point was how do I publish the thoughts and make them available on the web? For example, as referenced in [[my first note]]. Here are some references that I found online.
I have setup this digital garden with Gatsby, using the theme by Mathieu Dutour. It is heavily inspired by Andy's working notes. Andy's notes is what I intend to explore the most. The source for this is available at GitHub. I also have captured the learning log of my [[Gatsby Experiment on Linux]], which is what worked finally.
A beauty is this was written first in Notion and exported to Obsidian. I like that.
Recently, I also added a slight styling to the wiki -- mainly fixed the blockquotes. Well, Gatsby makes it a lot tricker than I thought. I knew including a custom CSS would be easier. However, getting it added to the header is not. The official styling guide for a Gatsby site didn't help me much. I believe one of the reason for that is I don't understand this platform fully yet. I built something with it without learning it first. I would like to fix that. But with the list of things to learn growing, I need to prioritize better.
Anyway back to adding external CSS to head, this stacktrace discussion is finally what helped me. Here's what I had to do.
custom.css with the required styling blocks and add the file to static directory.gatsby-ssr.js file in the root directory and regiatser a setHeadComponents adding a link for the style element.This was enough to resolve the problem -- so funny it took me so long to arrive at the solution.
A Non-Technical Guide To Set Up Digital Garden With Obsidian For Free
Uses Jekyll, Netlify and Obsidian. Possibly will follow this as part of my wish to get a digital garden setup. This was an easier setup -- I have got a running digital garden in place now. Idea is to explore this and see if this sticks.
One point that did fail was the local setup. My [[experiments with ruby]] aren't going well. Here's what I have written during my experiments.
This language beffudles me. It breaks at so many points, especially versions and dependency management.
It failed again. Some dependency could not be installed and I am sure it has got something to do with some version mismatch between Ruby's version
Another brilliant reference is this - listing down all the possible options - Jekyll (linked above), Eleventy and Gatsby. Gatsby should be tricker. I will explore Jekyll and Eleventy.
How to set up your own digital garden
Gatsby Garden is a brilliant theme, though. No doubt! And I love the Gatsby Andy theme. Should I even go there? It looks to be a complex project. I have no clue how Gatsby works.
A reference for getting started with Gatsby Andy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf5Wj-1IHa4
Update: I did follow the starter video and tried to setup a gatsby based wiki. It is predominently the theme that inspired me. I wanted to have that. But the experiement failed, again mainly because there is a mismatch between the version of Gatsby that gets installed vs what the theme wants. Neither of the plugins used like the version that exists on my system. [[Versioning in dev]] is a terrible problem to solve.