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+    "text": "I first heard about “digital gardens” during Vicki Boykis’s rstudio::global 2021 keynote entitled “Your Public Garden.” During it, she discussed how it’s important to build a digital garden as a way to take control of your online experience and create a more positive space. This approach intrigued me, so I wanted to learn more about it. Maggie Appleton did an excellent job exploring how digital gardens serve as personal knowledge management systems, allowing individuals to cultivate their thoughts and ideas in a non-linear format. There are many benefits to planting and tending to a digital garden, such as fostering creativity, enabling serendipitous discovery, and facilitating knowledge sharing. I found this concept delightful, so I planted my own digital garden.\nBefore this, I had a website I built with Gatsby. I liked that website. The design was a fork of Simplefolio by Jacobo Martínez. I modified the theme’s colors to be more purplish-blue than sea green, changed the font, and added links to my social networks and data analysis projects. It took a while to finish the site, and I wish I documented the process. It served me well when it went live in 2021. However, I started my bachelor’s in Business Analytics program that year, and I started a new job on top of being a busy husband and father. Hence, the site has gone largely untouched since then. Earlier this year, I got the itch to rework my website. But what to do? I experimented with Hugo before settling on Quarto as my platform of choice. But why Quarto?"
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+    "text": "I first heard about “digital gardens” during Vicki Boykis’s rstudio::global 2021 keynote entitled “Your Public Garden.” During it, she discussed how it’s important to build a digital garden as a way to take control of your online experience and create a more positive space. This approach intrigued me, so I wanted to learn more about it. Maggie Appleton did an excellent job exploring how digital gardens serve as personal knowledge management systems, allowing individuals to cultivate their thoughts and ideas in a non-linear format. There are many benefits to planting and tending to a digital garden, such as fostering creativity, enabling serendipitous discovery, and facilitating knowledge sharing. I found this concept delightful, so I planted my own digital garden.\nBefore this, I had a website I built with Gatsby. I liked that website. The design was a fork of Simplefolio by Jacobo Martínez. I modified the theme’s colors to be more purplish-blue than sea green, changed the font, and added links to my social networks and data analysis projects. It took a while to finish the site, and I wish I documented the process. It served me well when it went live in 2021. However, I started my bachelor’s in Business Analytics program that year, and I started a new job on top of being a busy husband and father. Hence, the site has gone largely untouched since then. Earlier this year, I got the itch to rework my website. But what to do? I experimented with Hugo before settling on Quarto as my platform of choice. But why Quarto?"
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+    "text": "Why Quarto?\nI’d love to jump into a list of well-thought-out reasons for using Quarto to plant the seeds of my digital garden like Silvia Canelón did. However, it really boiled down to inspiration, availability, and ease of use.\n\nUpon searching for websites built using Quarto, I was inspired by the myriad creatives using it not only to build websites but also a community, and I wanted to join the crowd.\nQuarto was already available within RStudio Desktop, a tool I’ve used extensively since starting my bachelor’s program.\nQuarto required little more than a knowledge of RMarkdown to get started. Since I already possessed that, the barrier to entry was low for me."
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+    "text": "Planting a Garden\nHopefully, I won’t regret this later. Still, I won’t detail how I planted my digital garden’s seeds. Instead, I’m going to list where I got my information and inspiration from:\n\nJadey Ryan: Intermediate guide to publish a Quarto website with GitHub & Netlify\n\nThis was my go-to resource while building my site. If you’re interested in using Quarto to start a digital garden, I highly recommend you start here. I did most of what Jadey outlined, with a few exceptions:\n\nI don’t use Netlify for deployment. I use GitHub Pages.\nI didn’t use usethis.\nWhile I want my garden to be accessible to as many people as possible, I’m not using Lighthouse to audit the accessibility.\n\n\nMarvin Schmitt: Create Your Website with Quarto: Complete Tutorial and Template\n\nI picked up a few tips and tricks here, mainly on adding new pages and deploying with GitHub Pages.\n\nSilvia Canelón\n\nShe inspired me to go repo-diving to learn how things were done on other people’s sites, primarily how she built her contact form1.\n\n\n\nSamantha Csik: Adding a blog to your existing Quarto website\n\nI followed Sam’s guidance in adding a blog (i.e., this part of my garden) to my website.\n\nShe also helped me figure out how to add some pizzazz to my web pages.\n\n\nHilda\n\nHilda is a graphic novel series and an animated television show created by Luke Pearson. It features gorgeous artwork which has been described as “Scandinavia by way of Miyazaki.” Take a look for yourself and I think you’ll get it.\n\n\n\n\n\nAn entire day in Trolberg"
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+    "text": "Welcome to My Digital Garden\nSo, welcome to my digital garden! I’m not entirely sure what this place will become, but I don’t envision it being an obnoxiously active place vying for your clicks. I want this to be a place where I can share thoughts and ideas and, hopefully be part of something bigger than myself."
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+    "text": "Footnotes\n\n\nSilvia Canelón went repo-diving while working on her contact form and learned from Tidy Tales’ About page. I should probably update my source to reflect that.↩︎"
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+  <li><a href="#planning-for-a-garden" id="toc-planning-for-a-garden" class="nav-link active" data-scroll-target="#planning-for-a-garden">Planning For a Garden</a></li>
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+<h2 class="anchored" data-anchor-id="planning-for-a-garden">Planning For a Garden</h2>
+<p>I first heard about “digital gardens” during Vicki Boykis’s rstudio::global 2021 keynote entitled “Your Public Garden.” During it, she discussed how it’s important to build a digital garden as a way to take control of your online experience and create a more positive space. This approach intrigued me, so I wanted to learn more about it. Maggie Appleton did an excellent job exploring how digital gardens serve as personal knowledge management systems, allowing individuals to cultivate their thoughts and ideas in a non-linear format. There are many benefits to planting and tending to a digital garden, such as fostering creativity, enabling serendipitous discovery, and facilitating knowledge sharing. I find this concept delightful, so I decided to plant my own digital garden.</p>
+<p>Before this, I had a website I built with Gatsby. I liked that website. The design was a fork of Simplefolio by Jacobo Martinez. I modified the colors of the theme to be more blue’ish-purple than sea green, changed the font, and added links to my social networks and data analysis projects. It took a while to finish the site, and I wish I documented the process. It served me well when it went live in 2021. However, I started my bachelors in Business Analytics program that year, and I started a new job, on top of being a busy husband and father, so the site went largely untouched since then. Earlier this year, I got the itch to rework my website. But what to do? I experimented a bit with Hugo before settling on Quarto as my platform of choice. But why Quarto?</p>
+</section>
+<section id="hello-quarto" class="level2">
+<h2 class="anchored" data-anchor-id="hello-quarto">Hello, Quarto</h2>
+<p>I’d love to jump into a list of well-thought out reasons for using Quarto to plant the seeds of my digital garden like Silvia Canelón did. However, it really boiled down to inspiration, availability, and ease-of-use.</p>
+<ul>
+<li><p>Upon searcing for websites built using Quarto, I was inspired by a myriad of creatives using it not only to build websites, but a community also, and I wanted to join the crowd.</p></li>
+<li><p>Quarto was already available within RStudio, a tool I’ve been using extensively ever since starting my bachelor’s program.</p></li>
+<li><p>Quarto required little more than a knoweldge of RMarkdown to get started. Since I already possesed that, the barrier to entry was low for me.</p></li>
+</ul>
+</section>
+<section id="planting-a-garden" class="level2">
+<h2 class="anchored" data-anchor-id="planting-a-garden">Planting a Garden</h2>
+<p>Hopefully, I don’t regret this later, but I’m not going to go into detail about how I planted my digital garden’s seeds. Instead, I’m going to list where I got my information and inspiration from:</p>
+<ul>
+<li><p>Jadey Ryan</p></li>
+<li><p>Marvin Schmitt</p></li>
+<li><p>Silvia Canelón</p></li>
+<li><p>Samantha Csik</p></li>
+<li><p>Hilda</p></li>
+</ul>
 
 
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