Welcome. This is the first article on the site, written in plain Markdown and rendered into the editorial layout you are reading now.

How articles work

Every article is a single .md file in the content/articles/ folder. The filename becomes the URL — this file is hello-world.md, so it lives at /writing/hello-world.

Each file starts with a small block of metadata:

---
title: "Your Title"
date: "2026-01-01"
summary: "One or two sentences shown in the index and under the title."
tags: ["Politics", "Philosophy"]
---

Everything after that block is the article body. Standard Markdown works:

  • Bullet lists
  • Bold and italic text
  • Links
  • Inline code and code blocks

Blockquotes are set in italics with a blue rule, for pull-quotes and citations.

Adding a new article

  1. Create a new file in content/articles/, e.g. my-second-post.md.
  2. Add the metadata block at the top. Tags are optional; they become the filter chips on the Writing page.
  3. Write your content below it.
  4. Refresh the site. It appears in the index automatically, sorted newest first, with a reading-time estimate.