About

Grey goatee bearded man with green baseball cap

Jake Rayson

I’m a wildlife forest garden designer by trade, a Biodiversity Assistant by profession, and a common ne’er do well by inclination.

Web designer in a previous life.

Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit. The two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other; nor can any society founded on the myth that they can be reconciled hope to survive. Either we will establish an ecological society or society will go under for everyone

Ursula K. Le Guin

About the website

This is somewhere I can post notes about my work and random shit.

Built using the incredible Hugo static site generator, using the rather nice Hextra theme with Heroicons. Content created with the mighty Obsidian using the Typewriter theme and these super useful community plugins:

  1. Better Word Count (built-in to Typewriter theme)
  2. Code Editor Shortcuts
  3. Copy as HTML
  4. Emoji Shortcodes
  5. Front Matter Timestamps
  6. Pandoc
  7. Table Generator
  8. Text Format
  9. Unique note creator - (core plugin, needs activating)
  10. Vault Nickname
  11. Zotero Integration

If you want to poke around to see how these plugins are used, the website code repository is here github.com/growdigital/jaker.uk and the Obsidian vault with all the plugins is the content folder, which is here github.com/growdigital/jaker.uk/tree/main/content