Notes from the Common

a weblog about Boston, kept by Publius, since 2026

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Welcome to Notes from the Common

This is a placeholder note. It exists so the site has one published example of how a note renders, and it should be replaced by the first real note.

How publishing works

Each note is a markdown file in content/posts/. Committing a new file publishes it. The frontmatter at the top of the file sets the title, the date, a short description, optional tags, and an optional emoji that becomes the note's station marker on the front-page route (this note's is the duck). Setting draft: true keeps a note out of every public surface until it is ready.

A few formatting examples, so rendering can be checked at a glance:

Quotes are set apart like this.

That is all. Delete this file when the first real note is ready.

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