Migrate from Pelican to Quarto static site generator - #56
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- Convert 17 posts to Quarto notebook posts under posts/<slug>/, with aliases preserving the old /articles/YYYY/Mon/DD/slug.html URLs - Move posts by other authors (and old icebox drafts) to _icebox/, which Quarto excludes from the build - Consolidate triplicated image directories into static/images/ and vendor the AI Dungeon hero image locally - Replace Pelican machinery (theme, plugins, Pipenv, Makefile) with _quarto.yml, index.qmd listing, about.qmd, and styles.css - Publish via GitHub Actions: render on push to dev, deploy to master with CNAME for computable.ai Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GXdH68Zgh99MDTF5Cpkn7q
The Pelican-to-Quarto migration dropped the custom mg theme and with it the site's visual identity. Recover it: - Brand SCSS layers for light and dark modes: teal-green palette (#00967b / #0d544e), white navbar with the signature 4px green top rule, green underlined listing titles, white article cards on a light-gray page, Optima/Segoe heading stack - Restore logo images from git history into static/images/brand/ and put the green-disc logo back in the header - Drop the redundant page-title block on the listing page Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GXdH68Zgh99MDTF5Cpkn7q
The old mg theme switched schemes via prefers-color-scheme; Quarto 1.6 only offered a manual toggle defaulting to light. Upgrade to Quarto 1.7 and enable respect-user-color-scheme so the site follows the OS preference again (the toggle remains for manual override). Retune the dark theme from darkly's neutral gray to the original green-tinted near-black (hsl 158 hue): body at 5% lightness, cards at 7% with hairline keylines, and the light backing behind transparent thumbnails. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GXdH68Zgh99MDTF5Cpkn7q
- Alias /pages/about.html, /categories.html, /archives.html to their new equivalents - Post-render script copies the feed to the old Pelican feed path feeds/all.atom.xml, since feed readers don't follow HTML redirects - Add a 404 page (GitHub Pages serves 404.html) - Let CI render on the feature branch with the deploy step gated to dev, so the pipeline is validated before switching over Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GXdH68Zgh99MDTF5Cpkn7q
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Summary
This PR migrates the Computable AI blog from Pelican (Python-based static site generator) to Quarto (R/Python-based publishing system). The migration involves removing all Pelican-specific configuration, themes, and plugins while establishing a new Quarto-based site structure.
Key Changes
pelicanconf.py,publishconf.py,Makefile,tasks.py, and the entirethemes/mg/custom theme directory with all associated CSS, JavaScript, and HTML templatesplugins/sitemap/andplugins/representative_image/directories along with their configurations_quarto.ymlwith project settings, website metadata, and post-render hooks for legacy feed URL compatibilitytheme-light.scssandtheme-dark.scssfor styling using Quarto's SCSS variable system, maintaining the original Computable AI brand colorsposts/to use raw cell format for YAML frontmatter (changing from markdown cells to raw cells withformat: text/plain)index.qmd(homepage with post listing),about.qmd, and404.qmdto replace Pelican templates.github/workflows/publish.ymlfor automated site publishing andtools/legacy-feed.pyto maintain backward compatibility with the old Pelican feed URL (/feeds/all.atom.xml)/_site/,/.quarto/)styles.cssfor legacy image alignment conventions from the Pelican eraNotable Implementation Details
#00967b,#0d544e) to Quarto's SCSS variable system/categories.html,/archives.html) to preserve SEO and existing linkshttps://claude.ai/code/session_01GXdH68Zgh99MDTF5Cpkn7q