Hello, world

This is an ordinary Post. It is a plain markdown file, and it fetches no JavaScript at all — the only scripts are a few hundred bytes inlined in the page, for the theme and the code-block copy buttons.

That is the deal the whole site is built around: it is HTML and CSS, and the reading experience is the feature.

What you get for free

Standard markdown works as you would expect. Code blocks are highlighted by Shiki at build time, using Catppuccin Latte in light mode and Mocha in dark:

func Excerpt(body string, maxLength int) string {
	plain := strings.Join(strings.Fields(body), " ")
	if len(plain) <= maxLength {
		return plain
	}
	return plain[:strings.LastIndex(plain[:maxLength], " ")] + "…"
}

Footnotes land at the foot of the page, with proper backlinks.1

Blockquotes switch to the heading serif and pick up a coloured rule, which makes a pulled quote read as a different voice rather than as indented prose.

Thing Weight
This page’s CSS a few KB
This page’s JS under 1 KB, inline
Web fonts none

Publishing

There is no publish button. Commit this file to main and push; Cloudflare Pages builds the site and serves it. To hide something while you work on it, set draft: true in the frontmatter — it stays visible locally and disappears from the production build.

Footnotes

  1. Like this one. The [^1] syntax is standard markdown, so these Posts stay readable in any editor and on GitHub itself. ↩