You’ll find this post in your _posts directory. Go ahead and edit it and re-build the site to see your changes. You can rebuild the site in many different ways, but the most common way is to run jekyll serve, which launches a web server and auto-regenerates your site when a file is updated.

To add new posts, simply add a file in the _posts directory that follows the convention YYYY-MM-DD-name-of-post.ext and includes the necessary front matter. Take a look at the source for this post to get an idea about how it works.

Demo post displaying the various ways of highlighting code in Markdown.

Try click on the link icon.

Custom written post descriptions are the way to go... if you're not lazy.

A ton of text to test readability.

Just about everything you'll need to style in the theme: headings, paragraphs, blockquotes, tables, code blocks, and more.