Colophon

This is a sample post. It exists to show what the front matter block looks like and to give the stylesheet something to render. Delete it once you’ve published something real.

Front matter🔗

Every file in content/blog/ needs a TOML block at the top, fenced by +++:

+++
title = "Colophon"
date = 2026-09-20
description = "One line for the index page and the meta description."
draft = false
+++

Only title and date matter. description shows up under the title on the index.

draft = true keeps a page out of the build entirely — it isn’t rendered and has no URL, so it’s for unfinished work you still want committed. Preview drafts locally with zola serve --drafts. If instead you want a piece that’s live but unlisted, so you can send someone the link before it’s public, put it in content/unlisted/ rather than marking it a draft.

The filename becomes the URL: colophon.md is served at /blog/colophon/. To override that, add slug = "something-else". Renaming a published file breaks its links, so pick the slug once — or set aliases = ["/blog/old-name/"] to leave a redirect behind.

What the markdown supports🔗

Standard CommonMark, plus footnotes^[1], tables, and fenced code blocks with syntax highlighting:

def per_unit_impedance(z_ohms, v_base_kv, s_base_mva):
    z_base = (v_base_kv ** 2) / s_base_mva
    return z_ohms / z_base

Block quotes render with a rule on the left and muted text.

Curly quotes, em dashes, and ellipses are generated automatically from plain ASCII — that’s smart_punctuation in config.toml.