Welcome to Testy Cool

Welcome to my dev blog focused on LLM-powered content generation and development. Here I explore:

Building text generation workflows with LLMs
Python programming and automation
Content pipeline development
Web development and DevOps
Technical deep dives and experiments

Below you’ll find my latest posts.

Quarto Icons & Extension Path Resolution

Using Font Awesome 6.5.2+ instead of iconify

Quarto extensions like iconify can be installed using:

How to Remove Empty Image Placeholders from Quarto Listings

Using image-placeholder: “” and fields configuration in _quarto.yml

By default, Quarto’s listing pages show thumbnails for each post. Even if you don’t have images, it still reserves space for them, creating unnecessary whitespace.

Spider.Cloud Web Scraper Review

Tried Spider.Cloud. Had really high hopes. Am disappointed.

Spider.Cloud is a web scraping tool that allows you to scrape websites and extract data.

Using Custom MDI Icons in Astro Starlight Card Components

How to extend the Astro Starlight Card component to accept custom icons

By default you can only use built-in icons in cards in Astro Starlight.

Failed: Custom CSS in Glance Dashboard on Coolify

Documenting a failed attempt to implement custom CSS in Glance dashboard when deployed through Coolify

My Favorite LLMs in January 2025

Notes on my favorite LLMs