How to write a new post

1. Create the file

Add a new file inside _posts/, named like this:

_posts/YYYY-MM-DD-a-short-slug.md

Example: _posts/2026-07-21-getting-back-into-this.md

The date in the filename controls where it lands in the feed, but the date field in the front matter (below) is what actually gets displayed and sorted on — keep them in sync.

2. Add the front matter

Every post needs this block at the very top of the file:

---
layout: post
title: 'Your Post Title Here'
date: YYYY-MM-DD
excerpt: 'A one to two sentence summary. This is what shows up in the homepage feed.'
---

• title — shown as the heading on the post page and in the feed
• date — controls sort order (newest first) and the date shown in the feed
• excerpt — the short blurb shown under the title in the feed card. Keep it to a sentence or two.

3. Write the post

Everything below the --- front matter is regular Markdown.

To embed an image (drop the image in assets/img/projects/<slug>/ or similar first):

<div class="image-container">
  <a href="/assets/img/projects/<slug>/<file>.png" target="_blank">
    <img src="https://www.genevereyes.com/assets/img/projects/<slug>/<file>.png" alt="Avatar" class="image">
    <div class="overlay">
      <div class="text">
        
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      </div>
    </div>
  </a>
</div>

4. Publish

Commit and push to the gh-pages branch. GitHub Pages rebuilds automatically — the new post shows up live within a few minutes.

Adding a project instead of a post

Projects work the same way but live in _projects/ (soon-migrated from projects/) and take one extra field:

---
layout: post
title: 'Project Title'
date: YYYY-MM-DD
excerpt: 'One or two sentence summary.'
thumbnail: '<slug>/thumbnail.jpg'
---

thumbnail should point to a file inside assets/img/projects/, and is what shows in the feed’s grid card.