Hello World

This is the first post on this blog. It's a test to make sure everything works — Markdown rendering, code blocks, typography, and the overall layout.

Why build a blog from scratch?

Most static site generators come with a lot of machinery. Jekyll, Hugo, Gatsby — they're powerful, but for a simple personal blog they feel like bringing a crane to hang a picture frame.

This blog is powered by a single Bun script (~80 lines) that reads Markdown files from a posts/ directory, converts them to HTML using marked, and writes static pages into blog/. That's it.

What Markdown features are supported?

Pretty much everything you'd expect:

• Bold and italic text
• Links that go places
• Inline code for quick references
• Images, tables, blockquotes

"The best writing tools are the ones that disappear."

Code blocks

def hello():
    print("Hello from the blog!")

for i in range(3):
    hello()

Lists

1. Write a .md file in posts/
2. Run bun run build
3. Push to GitHub
4. Done

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That's all there is to it.