Basic setup

Jekyll requires blog post files to be named according to the following format:

YEAR-MONTH-DAY-filename.md

Basic formatting

You can use italics, bold, code font text, and create links. Here’s a footnote 1. Here’s a horizontal rule:

Lists

Here’s a list:

  • item 1
  • item 2

And a numbered list:

  1. item 1
  2. item 2

Boxes and stuff

This is a quotation

You can include alert boxes

…and…

You can include info boxes

Images

Code

You can format text and code per usual

General preformatted text:

# Do a thing
do_thing()

Python code and output:

# Prints '2'
print(1+1)

2

Formatting text as shell commands:

echo "hello world"
./some_script.sh --option "value"
wget https://example.com/cat_photo1.png

Formatting text as YAML:

key: value
- another_key: "another value"

Tables

Column 1 Column 2
A thing Another thing

Tweetcards

Footnotes

  1. This is the footnote. ↩