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