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.