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Building this site from scratch

2026-07-09

This is a placeholder post — mostly here so I can see how blog posts look before I write real ones. It also shows the things I want to be able to use: headings, images, code, and footnotes.

A heading

Regular paragraphs work as you’d expect. You can make text italic or bold, add links, and drop in inline code.

Here’s a footnote to test them.1 Footnotes are handy for asides that would break the flow if I left them in the main text.2

Code blocks

Since I come from Python, I’ll mostly paste Python:

def fitness(robot):
    # reward robots that move far to the right
    return robot.position.x

Images

Images use normal markdown syntax:

A placeholder — replace with a real figure

That’s it for now.

Footnotes

  1. I rebuilt the site to learn how the web works, and to have a place for projects and writing that feels like mine. ↩

  2. You can have as many footnotes as you like; they collect at the bottom of the post automatically. ↩