About this site

This site exists for one reason: to be a realistic-looking blog so we can iterate on the juicerblog theme without reaching for stock-photo content. Every post here is a real-ish essay about a topic the credited author cares about; nothing is filler, but nothing has to be defended at length either.

What it exercises

• Tagging — most posts carry one or two tags, with meta deliberately overloaded (used by three posts) and life used exactly once, so the tag cloud has visible weight differences.
• Series — the Reading on screens posts are a three-part series by Alice. The series sidebar lists all three; the prev/next buttons step through chronological order across all posts, regardless of series.
• Multiple authors — Ed, Alice, and Ben each have author records under [[authors]] in site.toml. One post (Why static sites still win) has co-authors.
• Date archives — dateArchives = true in site.toml, so /2024/, /2024/07/, /2024/08/, etc., land as their own pages.
• Aliases — Why static sites still win declares two old URLs that resolve via meta-refresh.
• Permalinks — [permalinks] posts = ":year/:month/:slug/" — every post lives under its date, so the URL survives a re-tagging.
• Atom feeds — /feed.xml aggregates everything; per-section feeds drop in too.

Why a third demo blog

Two reasons. First, a theme is only as good as the content you can iterate on, and stock-Lorem-ipsum hides exactly the design problems that show up in real text — tag cloud imbalance, series sidebars with awkward title lengths, multi-author bylines that need to wrap, posts with figures vs. without. Second, every Phase-2 engine feature ships with a layout in juicerblog, and a layout that has no demo content is a layout that breaks at the next refactor without anybody noticing.

How a “page” is different from a “post”

This page declares static: true in its frontmatter, which tells the juicerblog theme to drop the post chrome (date line, reading time, tags, series sidebar, prev/next nav) and render the body as a clean long-form essay. The signal is purely a theme convention — the engine still treats this file like any other content — but it means an about / colophon / contact page can live alongside the post archive without looking like part of it.

Source for the demo lives at examples/blog-site/ in the juicer repo. Pull requests welcome.