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Optimising VS Code and Positron for Quarto: Essential Settings for Better Editing

quarto
vscode
positron
productivity

Discover the custom settings I use in VS Code and Positron to enhance my Quarto document editing workflow, from improved Git diffs to better visual guides for nested divs.

Thursday, the 20th of November, 2025
Mickaël CANOUIL, Ph.D.
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Lua Best Practices for Quarto Extensions: Building Maintainable and Robust Extensions

quarto
extensions
productivity
best practices
lua

This guide explores essential practices drawn from Quarto’s extensions and community standards, covering project structure, error handling, documentation, and release management to help transform your extensions into reliable, community-friendly tools that stand the test of time.

Thursday, the 6th of November, 2025
Mickaël CANOUIL, Ph.D.
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Quarto Wizard 1.0.0: Democratising Quarto Extension Management

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vscode
positron
extensions
productivity

Introducing a game-changing extension for VS Code and Positron that transforms Quarto extensions management with an intuitive GUI for extensions and templates.

Monday, the 20th of October, 2025
Mickaël CANOUIL, Ph.D.
Quarto icon and text above GitHub Codespaces.

How to use GitHub Codespaces to simplify your Quarto workshops

Quarto
GitHub Codespaces
Teaching
Dev Container

In this post, I’ll teach you the basics of GitHub Codespaces and how to use them to make it easier to teach using Quarto.

Monday, the 19th of May, 2025
Mickaël CANOUIL, Ph.D.
Illustration showing Quarto Reveal.js presentation with tabset navigation.

Quarto: Unleash Dynamic Tabset Navigation & Polished PDF Exports

Quarto
Reveal.js
PDF
Presentations
Decktape

Discover how to supercharge your Quarto presentations with interactive tabset navigation in Reveal.js and create stunning, professional PDFs. Get ready to dazzle your audience!

Monday, the 21st of April, 2025
Mickaël CANOUIL, Ph.D.
Quarto icon and text logo above GitHub Pages logo.

Quarto: Publishing to GitHub Pages

Quarto
GitHub Pages
Publishing
Deployment
GitHub Actions

In this guide, I’ll explore various methods to publish your Quarto projects to GitHub Pages. I’ll cover both manual and automated approaches to help you choose the best fit for your workflow.

Monday, the 30th of December, 2024
Mickaël CANOUIL, Ph.D.
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Quarto Q&A: How to have images for both light and dark theme?

Quarto
Q&A
JavaScript
theme
dark mode
light mode

In this blog post of the “Quarto Q&A” series you will learn how to generate images for light and dark theme using knitr and switch between them when changing theme.

Tuesday, the 30th of May, 2023
Mickaël CANOUIL, Ph.D.
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Quarto Q&A: How to publish your Quarto content as a Docker container?

Quarto
Q&A
Docker

In this blog post of the “Quarto Q&A” series you will learn how to publish your Quarto project as a Docker container.

Sunday, the 7th of May, 2023
Mickaël CANOUIL, Ph.D.
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Quarto Q&A: How to use non-default LaTeX packages/macros in MathJax?

Quarto
Q&A
MathJax
LaTeX

A second blog post of the “Quarto Q&A” series on how to activate additional MathJax packages in a Quarto document.

Sunday, the 12th of March, 2023
Mickaël CANOUIL, Ph.D.
Screenshot of an html rendered by Quarto. it starts with a sentence saying below are several tables by species of penguins, followed by an item list showing the species and their respective cross-reference to the tables. Tables are simply on top of each other after the item list.

Quarto Q&A: How to have labels and captions for an unknown number of tables?

Quarto
Q&A
R
knitr

A small example of how to automatically have labels and captions for an unknown number of tables in Quarto, using knitr and R.

Sunday, the 5th of March, 2023
Mickaël CANOUIL, Ph.D.
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Add a Floating Table of Contents in blogdown

R
blogdown
rmarkdown
HUGO
Website

How to have a table of contents (TOC) on either the left or the right side of a post? I have an answer!

Thursday, the 6th of May, 2021
Mickaël CANOUIL, Ph.D.
`ggpacman` hexagonal logo representing a red ghost from the game Pac-Man on a black background with a blue border and `ggpacman` written in yellow below the ghost.

A ggplot2 and gganimate Version of Pac-Man

R
Visualisation
ggplot2
gganimate
Fun

The story of ggpacman. Or how to build a useless but fun R package to make a GIF of the game Pac-Man.

Wednesday, the 6th of May, 2020
Mickaël CANOUIL, Ph.D.
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