First Post — Setting Up This Blog

Welcome. This is the first post on mhuynh.org, which exists mostly as a place to write down what I’m learning while I learn it — systems work by day, painterly anime studies at night, whatever else is worth recording in between.

How to write new posts

Drop a markdown file into content/tech/, content/art/, content/projects/, or content/notes/. The filename becomes the URL slug. Front matter at the top sets the metadata:

+++
title = "Post title"
description = "Subtitle shown under the title."
date = 2026-04-22

[taxonomies]
tags = ["rust", "tooling"]

[extra]
topic = "PowerShell"    # optional — shows in the left rail
+++

Post content in markdown...

How to embed art

Use the figure shortcode to get the gallery frame and zoom-on-click behaviour:

{{ figure(
  src="/images/art/2026-04-22-session-3.jpg",
  alt="Session 3 — value structure practice",
  fignum="Figure 1",
  caption="Study after Sargent, ninety minutes, Procreate."
) }}

Put the image file at static/images/art/2026-04-22-session-3.jpg and it’ll be served at that URL.

Categories and tags

The top nav — Tech, Art, Projects, Notes — is the primary taxonomy; each lives as its own folder under content/. Tags are secondary and cross-cutting, declared in front matter. A post about a Rust CLI in the tech section can be tagged rust and tooling; a painting in the art section can be tagged portrait and sargent. Tag pages are auto-generated.

That’s the mechanics. The rest is writing.