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• For example mine is shelbyjenkins.github.io.

It will take a 60-120s for the codespace to build for the first time. When it's done, a new terminal will automatically start and npm run dev will be run starting the local dev server for you.

Click on the link in the terminal. This will open a local version of the site in your browser. You can use this to preview your changes.

• By adding a a file to this folder, it will automatically be added to the blog.

• The template has more instructions for creating new posts. You can find a live version of it here.

Markdown is straight forward and you defintely use it in some form already. For example: Slack and Discord both use flavors of markdown.

You can write in your favorite text editor and convert to markdown with tools like xyz and zyx.

• For general markdown instructions see Astro's general markdown guide for some notes.
• And also the EasyABC markdown specifics guide.

In your Github repository go to the settings and find the pages panel.

• Set the Source dropdown to Github Actions.

Blogging platforms like Medium put your posts behind a paywall. Others like Substack and Dev.to might someday do the same.

Linkedin and other social media are in the business of controlling your content. It can make organic discovery of your content via SEO difficult or impossible.

Git gives you a higher level of version control (saving), remote editing, and redudancy.

You maintain complete control of your work to share, edit, or export for other platforms.

Github Pages are free (for now), but because it's built on Git you can export to another provider easily.

A Github Page is considered safe to click on as a common, well known, non-paywalled service.

You can use your own domain name and your own styling to really create something unique.

If you are comfortable with not understanding everything, it's an enjoyable experience to create and learn.

It's actually really easy (30m-60m).