plain — sample site

Writing in Markdown

examplewriting

Posts are written in Markdown: plain text with a little punctuation for formatting. You never have to use any of it — plain paragraphs are perfectly good posts — but here is the whole toolbox.

Wrap words in asterisks for italics or double asterisks for bold. Links look like this, written as [this](https://…).

Lists

Numbered steps:

  1. Write.
  2. Publish.
  3. Repeat.

Or bullet points:

  • no ceremony
  • no login required to read
  • no lock-in

Quotes

Ease of use is the most underrated feature in publishing. If writing feels heavy, you stop writing.

Tables

Format Good for
Paragraphs almost everything
Tables comparisons and prices
Code blocks anything technical

Code

Inline code uses backticks, like site.config.json. Longer snippets get fenced blocks with a language name for highlighting-friendly markup:

export function greet(name) {
  return `Hello, ${name}!`;
}

That is genuinely all of it. When in doubt, just write.