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Hello, World

2026-08-11

Welcome to the first post on this blog. It's just a plain Markdown file sitting in public/blog/, tracked in git alongside the rest of the site — no CMS, no database, just files.

Links

You can link out to anywhere, like my GitHub or LinkedIn. Inline links work exactly like standard Markdown: [text](url).

Images

Images work the same way, pointing at anything in the public/ folder:

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You can also point at an external image URL if you'd rather not check the asset into the repo:

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Writing a new post

Drop a new .md file into public/blog/, give it a frontmatter block like the one at the top of this file (title, date, excerpt), commit it, and it shows up on the blog index automatically.

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