Hello, world

I've really wanted a place to write for a while. Not a Medium account, not a Substack, just plain essays on my own domain, the way Paul Graham does it. So I built the simplest thing that works: markdown files in a folder, a 200-line build script, and GitHub Pages.

This post exists to exercise the pipeline. Everything below is here to prove it renders.

Images

Drop a file in posts/images/, reference it with a caption:

The alt text becomes the caption, in small italic type.

Quotes and code

The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. It's to look for problems, preferably problems you have yourself.

Inline code like npm run build gets a subtle background, and blocks scroll horizontally:

const posts = fs.readdirSync('posts')
    .filter((f) => f.endsWith('.md'))
    .map(parsePost)
    .sort((a, b) => b.date - a.date);

Lists

Write a markdown file
Push to main
That's the whole pipeline

If you can read this at wience.tech/blog, it worked.