My Blog

Notes, tutorials and experiments, built with Quarto and Blogkit.

Writing Posts with Tags, Categories and Related Posts

How front matter drives everything in Blogkit: the difference between categories and tags, how related posts are scored, and how to keep your tags tidy.

Avery Kestrel

Oct 2, 2026

Welcome to Blogkit: What You Get Out of the Box

2 min

Blogkit

Getting started

A quick tour of Blogkit, a Quarto extension that turns a plain Quarto blog into a themed site with an archive, tag cloud, related posts, author pages and a publish script.

Avery Kestrel

Oct 1, 2026

Authors and Profiles: One YAML File for Bios and Photos

2 min

Blogkit

Authors

How Blogkit stores author profiles in authors.yml, creates an author page for each person, links bylines, and adds category and tag filters with pagination.

Jordan Alder

Sep 27, 2026

Exercise Posts: Hint and Reveal Buttons for Code

2 min

Blogkit

Teaching

Hide the answer to an exercise behind a Reveal button, with a bulleted hint above it, using one small div and no extra dependencies.

Jordan Alder

Sep 20, 2026

Publishing with One Command: render, commit, push

2 min

Blogkit

Workflow

A small shell script turns the publish routine into one line: it renders chosen posts, commits only the project, rebases and pushes to GitHub Pages.

Avery Kestrel

Sep 12, 2026

Customising the Theme: CSS Variables and the Dark/Light Toggle

3 min

Blogkit

Design

How the dark and light schemes work in Blogkit, which CSS variables to change to retheme the whole site, and how to add your own styles without breaking either mode.

Jordan Alder

Aug 30, 2026