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Eight posts came home

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The blog launched with one post, and that post's title was literally TODO: first post. Meanwhile eight real posts written between June 2023 and March 2024 sat in the old site's repository, reachable by nobody.

A blog with a TODO on its index reads as abandoned. The writing already existed; it was the only thing missing.

It was a conversion rather than a copy, because none of it fit:

  • The old frontmatter called it description; this app reads summary.
  • Unquoted dates parse as YAML timestamps, not strings — which still looks like a date on the page, and sorts by weekday name. Every date got quotes.
  • why-I-love-neovim.md had an uppercase letter, which the slug rule rejects. It would have been listed on the index and 404'd when opened.
  • The Astrovim cheat sheet is almost entirely a table, and GitHub-flavoured markdown was not enabled. Without it the whole post renders as a wall of pipe characters.
  • Two posts embedded a live-code sandbox component that does not exist here. The code inside them is preserved as ordinary fenced blocks; the editable sandbox is not.

Everything else survived intact.