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My Public Second Brain Framework and Style (Quartz V3-Hugo)

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zazuke·Sep 28, 2026

This page has been live long before AI appeared, I used Quartz [1] v3, now at v5. But added some features I like with AI, yes, but still keeping my beloved color theme and web style as I had it for a long, long time. The whole code for the second brain (ssp.sh/brain/*) is on GitHub, in case you want to check it [2], but you can also see the "Changelog" in the footer to see recent visual changes. But I'd be curious what makes you think it's AI-generated? [1] https://github.com/jackyzha0/quartz [2] https://github.com/sspaeti/second-brain-public

In The problem is not AI code, but not knowing about system architecture or intent

zazuke·Aug 2, 2026Submission

Show HN: My public second brain – 660 notes, 15 years, open source

Author here. ~660 notes published from a private Obsidian vault of 8,360 (3M words). Started in OneNote around 2011, moved to Obsidian in 2021 [1], imported everything with a Python script [2]. Notes are compounding over time, and that is where my writing comes from. The Semantic Layer note started in 2022, became a four-part blog series, then a chapter of my book. Materialized Views, One Big Table, dbt and OLAP were separate notes written years apart. I only later noticed they were the same pattern, and that became another chapter. Publishing: add #publish to a note, run `make deploy`. Quartz + Hugo, rsync to my own server [3]. Code [4]. Semantic search over the graph [5]. [1] https://www.ssp.sh/blog/how-to-take-notes-in-2021/ [2] https://www.ssp.sh/blog/how-to-take-notes-in-2021/#how-did-i... [3] https://www.ssp.sh/brain/public-sec

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ond-brain-with-quartz/ [4] https://github.com/sspaeti/second-brain-public [5] https://explore.ssp.sh

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zazuke·Jun 26, 2026Submission

Show HN: My website as one connected graph – blog, second brain, and book

I've just updated my entry page to make the connection between the brain book and blogs more visually clear. The nodes are clickable and point to actual notes in my second brain (there's 1000s more). What do you think? If you are curious, the second brain (built on Quartz) is fully open-source: https://github.com/sspaeti/second-brain-public.

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articsputnik·May 25, 2023Submission

Show HN: Open-Source Public Second Brain Built with Obsidian and Quartz

My Public Second Brain (https://brain.sspaeti.com) is built with the help of a wonderful tool called Quartz (https://brain.sspaeti.com/quartz-publish-obsidian-vault/). Obsidian (https://brain.sspaeti.com/obsidian/) has become my favorite for note-takers, given its flexible and linked structure that closely mirrors our natural way of thinking. With Quartz, I was able to seamlessly publish my Obsidian notes to a public vault, providing the groundwork for my Public Second Brain. The journey of making this possible involved some scripting as well. I wrote a python script, find-publish-notes.py (https://github.com/sspaeti/second-brain-public/blob/hugo/utils/find-publish-notes.py), which is integrated into the Makefile (https://github.com/sspaeti/second-brain-public/blob/hugo/Makefile). This script's purpose is to locate all the notes in my Obs

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idian Vault tagged with #publish and copy them into the Quartz git-repo. When I'm ready to update my public brain, all it takes is a simple command - `make deploy`. This command will publish all the recently tagged notes to brain.sspaeti.com (https://brain.sspaeti.com), ensuring the Second Brain stays updated. Want to see it in action? Here's a recorded example of How I upload to my Public Second Brain - asciinema (https://asciinema.org/a/APNjfEDdep4GMcTR1vd1T903W). I'm excited about the transparency and accessibility that my Public Second Brain offers. It's a dynamic, growing entity, just like our human brains with backlinks and its graph view. You can find more details about my Public Second Brain here (https://brain.sspaeti.com/public-second-brain-with-quartz/). Stay curious, keep learning, and perhaps, see you in the world of open-source knowledge! By the way, I also wrote about Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) workflows (https://www.sspaeti.com/blog/pkm-workflow-for-a-deeper-life/), in case that is something you got interested in.

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