On Starting to Write in Public

July 20, 2026

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust

This is a sample post. It exists so you can see how a finished piece looks, and so you have a template to copy. Delete it whenever you’re ready to publish something real.

Writing a new post

Every post is a single Markdown file in src/content/writings/. The block of metadata at the top — between the --- lines — is called frontmatter. Only title and date are required. The filename becomes the URL, so real-world-superintelligence.md publishes at /writings/real-world-superintelligence/.

What you can write

Markdown handles the usual things: bold, italic, links, and lists. You also get proper footnotes,¹ which render at the bottom of the page and link back and forth.

Block quotes are set off with a left rule, the way an aside or a pulled quote should be.

Longer quotations, section breaks, and images all work out of the box. The column is kept narrow on purpose — around sixty characters a line — because that is what is comfortable to read.

Section headings

Use ## for section headings and ### for anything nested beneath them. They’re spaced generously so the page breathes.

That’s the whole system. Write a Markdown file, commit it, and it’s live.