README written by Claude (claude-sonnet-4-6) on 2026-04-02

Alex's Scrapbook

A personal digital scrapbook/notebook/garden — live at https://www.alexislearning.me/scrapbook

What it is

A collection of notes, essays, and learning logs covering topics like epistemology, meditation, schema therapy, post-rationalism, and creative work. Currently ~374k words and growing.

How it's built

• Quartz v4 — static site generator built for digital gardens, converts Obsidian markdown to a website
• Obsidian — used locally for writing and editing notes
• GitHub Pages — hosting, with automatic deploys via GitHub Actions on every push to main
• GoatCounter — privacy-first, cookieless visitor analytics

The content lives in source/content/ as plain markdown files. Quartz builds them into a static site in source/public/.

Local development

cd source
npm install
npx quartz build --serve

Scripts

• scripts/update-wordcount.sh — updates the word count displayed on the homepage
• scripts/install-git-hooks.sh — installs git hooks (runs word count update pre-commit)