This is the first post on this micro blog. Short thoughts, links, and photos — nothing more.

Writing posts

Posts are plain Markdown files in the posts/ folder. Create a new one with:

nikola new_post -f markdown

Fill in the title, save, and run nikola build to regenerate the site.

Adding images

Drop image files into the images/ folder, then reference them in a post:

![A descriptive alt text](/images/my-photo.jpg)

Nikola will copy the image to the output and the CSS makes sure it scales responsibly to the column width.

You can also use the .. thumbnail:: directive (reStructuredText) or Nikola's image directive if you want automatic thumbnail generation with lightbox support.

Deploying

Build the static site and push it to the server in one step:

nikola build && nikola deploy

The deploy command runs the rsync line configured in conf.py. Edit the user, host, and remote path there before the first deploy. ``Now let me also create aMakefilefor convenience and a.gitignore` for the blog output: