Hello, world
This is what an essay looks like on the site: a plain text file with a
three-line block at the top for the title, date, and (optional) one-line
summary shown on the homepage. Everything below the second --- is just
markdown, which is basically text with two conventions:
- A line starting with
#becomes a heading.##is a subheading. - Wrapping text in
**stars**makes it bold; single stars make it italic.
That’s the whole thing. You don’t need any more markdown than that to
write. Links look like [text](https://example.com) and lists start with
a hyphen at the start of a line.
Adding a new essay
Copy this file, rename it to YYYY-MM-DD-your-slug.md, replace the front
matter and body, commit, push. The site rebuilds automatically on GitHub
and the new essay shows up at the top of the list.