Notice of Bases Plugin
Since the latest Obsidian update and the introduction of Bases, my pipeline’s broken in a few places. I’m working on adapting it to this new feature as it’s a game-changer. I know that Quartz is working on supporting it as well (perhaps they’d let me join the effort?). Some notes may remain “broken” until this is resolved.
Thanks.
My Friends Call Me Abdu
Despite the countless times I’ve done it, I still struggle to introduce myself in a snappy two liner, so bare with me.
I’m a lifetime learner, programmer, casual-gamer, amateur photographer of wildlife and automobiles, macchiato enjoyer, and someone who’s outgrowing his balcony garden!
Welcome to my little nook on the internet, I built this DigitalGarden to serve as a space where I can share my thoughts and opinions in relaxed informal way.
Social media’s bloated, parasitic, and far too distracting for any real discussion or valuable exchange to take place. When I do hop onto soc-med, it’s for memes my friends share with me (I share back, obviously) and debugging help on Reddit… I built this space as a companion to my own portfolio.
Here, I’ll share my opinions on topics I find interesting, concepts I learn throughout my experience as a programmer, my hobbies and interests, and other ramblings I wanna put out there. I’ll mostly be writing in a casual style (unless the topic requires seriousness), so expect some slang, meme-references, etc.
If there are errors, mistakes, or typos in any of the concept documents or others under
/Knowledge Base, please let me know. This helps both the readers and myself.
Every note here is a living-document subject to updates and changes as I revisit them down the line, since that’s the beauty of using something like Obsidian to organize all of this.
Obsidian and I
I’ve been using Obsidian for about two years now, after migrating from Notion.
Obsidian has been great for me, a complete life changer. Everything I do these days that requires gathering, organizing, and reviewing information is intertwined with it. For a while I’ve felt that some of the things I write for my own sake, mostly while learning new technologies and tools related to SoftwareDevelopment, or exploring interesting topics, may be useful to others, similar to how my Notion dashboard was a hit among my classmates at BCIT.
Which is why I built this space, so I can express and share, and if even a single person, takes anything from my work, then I’m all the happier.
Quartz
I pondered for a few days on how to set this all up. There’s no shortage of StaticSiteGenerators and SSG frameworks in just as many languages and stacks.
After trying a few options, I finally settled on Quartz because it natively supports the very features of Obsidian that I enjoy. Additionally, it required very little tampering; which meant I could focus more on designing the workflow.
I’ll share my entire process soon, just need to iron out some kinks in the workflow.
Content
I’ll be honest despite my obsessiveness over organizing my thoughts both on paper and on disk, you’ll find that there’s plenty of chaos in how everything’s lumped together.
Blog
Ramblings
Hobbies and Interests
Tech
Some notable topics that I often revisit and review.