---
title: "First post"
date: 2026-09-04
category: Notes
tags: [Meta]
url: https://dynamite-blog.pages.dev/2026/09/hello
---


This is the first post on this blog, which means the site is live and the
publishing pipeline works end to end.

## What this is

A place to write things down. Posts land here when there is something worth
keeping: a problem that took too long to debug, a tool that turned out to be
better or worse than expected, notes I want to be able to find again later.
Short entries are fine. Not everything needs to be an essay.

## How it works

The whole site is static. Posts are Markdown or MDX files in `_posts/`, each one
carrying its own frontmatter — title, slug, date, category, tags. A prebuild step
reads them, converts the Markdown to HTML, and writes the JSON payloads the app
loads at runtime. The build then pre-renders every route, so what gets deployed
is plain HTML plus a small amount of JavaScript for hydration and interactive
bits like search.

That output is served from Cloudflare Pages. Alongside the pages, the build also
emits `/rss.xml`, `/sitemap.xml`, and `llms.txt` for anything that would rather
read a machine-friendly index than crawl the HTML. Every post is also available
as raw Markdown: append `.md` to the URL of any post to get the source.

## What is next

More posts. If you want to follow along, the [RSS feed](/rss.xml) is the most
reliable way; everything published here shows up there first.