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Hello! This is like a First Post all over again, this time publishing from i.haza.website! 🎉️

I've held off posting a few updates so that I could finish the changes required to bring this blog over, and that day has finally come. Like with the docs and holster sites, there were a lot of incremental changes to make it happen. I will talk more about them in future posts, for now I'm happy to be writing in a nice editor, that auto saves updates, allows me to create drafts, and has some nice templating features built in.

There's quite a few features you need for a static site to publish a blog, one I really wanted from the beginning is multiple posts on the home page. This was added as Front Matter at the start of a template, which makes it capable of publishing pages that don't otherwise exist in your folder structure: