This is my intial (welcome) post, and to give credit where due, everything under the line below starting with “Here’s the table of contents” is verbatim from fastai/fast_template which is the tool used to create and manage this blog. If you also want to host your own free blog like this one, just go to https://github.com/fastai/fast_template where at top (to right of “A template for really easy blogging with GitHub Pages”) is link to step-by-step instructions at: Your own hosted blog, the easy, free, open way (even if you’re not a computer expert) Written: 16 Jan 2020 by Jeremy Howard

So the rest of this file is exact copy of the template provide by fastai) and can be used as a cheat-sheet (quick reference) demonstrating HowTo create, write and format blog postings. Just edit (or view this file as raw), you’ll see the markup code for each example below. [TODO] For each example below not already covered at markdownguide.org (if any), add note below and show escaped markup code for each such uncovered example.

Here’s the table of contents:

  1. Basic setup
  2. Basic formatting
  3. Lists
  4. Boxes and stuff
  5. Images
  6. Code
  7. Tables
  8. Footnotes

Basic setup

Jekyll requires blog post files to be named according to the following format:

YEAR-MONTH-DAY-filename.md

Where YEAR is a four-digit number, MONTH and DAY are both two-digit numbers, and filename is whatever file name you choose, to remind yourself what this post is about. .md is the file extension for markdown files.

The first line of the file should start with a single hash character, then a space, then your title. This is how you create a “level 1 heading” in markdown. Then you can create level 2, 3, etc headings as you wish but repeating the hash character, such as you see in the line ## File names above.

Basic formatting

You can use italics, bold, code font text, and create links. Here’s a footnote 1. Here’s a horizontal rule:

Lists

Here’s a list:

  • item 1
  • item 2

And a numbered list:

  1. item 1
  2. item 2

Boxes and stuff

This is a quotation

You can include alert boxes

…and…

You can include info boxes

Images

Code

General preformatted text:

# Do a thing
do_thing()

Python code and output:

# Prints '2'
print(1+1)

2

Tables

Column 1 Column 2
A thing Another thing

Footnotes

  1. This is the footnote. ↩