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2026-08-18 / 1 min / stable

A small content system for a personal site

The folder and metadata rules that keep work, essays, and growing notes maintainable.

The site uses three public content types:

  1. work for stable project records
  2. writing for dated long-form essays
  3. notes for shorter references that can be marked growing or stable

Writing and notes are plain MDX files. Frontmatter supplies title, description, publication date, tags, and note status. The page body stays portable Markdown.

The indexes are generated at build time and searched in the browser. RSS includes writing only, because rapidly changing notes should not look like published articles.

The system is deliberately smaller than a CMS. Git provides drafts, history, review, and rollback. Images can live beside public assets and be referenced from MDX.

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