Writing Workflow

Use this site as a small public notebook for career logs, research ideas, thinking records, and thought experiments.

Public posts

Create public posts in _posts/.

File names must use this format:

YYYY-MM-DD-short-title.md

Example front matter:

---
layout: single
title: "A Research Idea"
date: 2026-07-02
categories:
  - research
tags:
  - idea
  - agent
---

Posts in _posts/ are shown at /posts/, /year-archive/, /tags/, and /categories/.

If a post has published: false, Jekyll will not render it. Remove that line, or set it to true, when you want the post to appear publicly.

Drafts

Put unfinished drafts in _drafts/. Drafts do not appear on the deployed site.

To preview drafts locally:

bundle exec jekyll serve --drafts

Private local notes

Put notes that should stay only on this computer in _private_posts/.

That folder is ignored by git, so it will not be uploaded through normal commits and pushes. Avoid putting private writing in _posts/ or _drafts/ if this GitHub repository is public, because committed source files can still be read on GitHub even when Jekyll does not publish them.