cole_press

Personal website at cole.press — writings, projects, and experiments covering tech, AI, psychology, and politics.

Built with Quarto + R + SCSS featuring a terminal/CLI-inspired design.

Quick Start

Option 1: Dev Container (Recommended)

1. Open in VS Code
2. Click "Reopen in Container" when prompted
3. Run make preview

Option 2: Manual Setup

./setup.sh          # Install Quarto and R
make setup          # Install R packages and TinyTeX
make preview        # Start dev server

Prerequisites

Tool	Version	Installation
Quarto	≥1.7.31	quarto.org
R	≥4.5.1	r-project.org
TinyTeX	latest	quarto install tinytex

System libraries (Ubuntu/Debian):

sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev libssl-dev libxml2-dev

Commands

make preview    # Dev server at localhost:4200 (hot reload)
make build      # Render site to _site/
make setup      # Install R packages + TinyTeX
make clean      # Remove generated files
make check      # Verify installation
make help       # Show all commands

Project Structure

cole_press/
├── *.qmd                    # Content pages (Quarto Markdown)
├── _quarto.yml              # Site configuration
├── monospatial-light.scss   # Light theme (primary)
├── monospatial-dark.scss    # Dark theme
├── _fonts.scss              # Font definitions (Anonymous Pro)
├── _extensions/             # Quarto extensions (fontawesome, quarto-cv)
├── .devcontainer/           # VS Code dev container config
└── _site/                   # Generated output (git-ignored)

Documentation

Document	Purpose
AGENTS.md	AI agent reference (Codex, Claude, Copilot)
CONTRIBUTING.md	How to contribute
CLAUDE.md	Claude-specific instructions
.github/copilot-instructions.md	GitHub Copilot context

Tech Stack

• Quarto — Static site generator
• R — Code execution in documents
• SCSS — Custom theming with terminal-inspired design
• Netlify — Deployment and hosting
• TinyTeX — PDF CV generation via quarto-cv extension

License

Content © Cole Rehbein. See individual files for specific licenses.