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Hello World: How This Blog Works

By Drew Gillen•February 19, 2026•Product

Welcome to my blog! 🎉 This is the starter post I’ll use as a template for future writing.

Hello World: How This Blog Works

What you’ll find here

I’ll be publishing notes, experiments, and practical guides on:

  • Building products with modern web tools
  • Lessons learned from shipping (and breaking) things
  • Short write-ups that I can reference later

If you’re reading this, the pipeline is working: Notion → Next.js → Markdown → Website.

The workflow

Here’s my simple publishing flow:

  1. Draft the post in Notion
  2. Add a Slug and set Published = true
  3. The site pulls the post from my Notion database and renders it automatically

This makes writing feel lightweight—no local markdown files needed.

A quick code snippet

Here’s a tiny example snippet I might reference in posts:

exportfunctionhello(name:string) {
return`Hello,${name}!`;
}

A checklist for future posts

Before publishing, I’ll make sure:

  • Title looks good
  • Slug is unique and kebab-case
  • Published is checked
  • Date is set
  • I added a short excerpt

Closing

That’s it. If you want to follow along, check back soon — I’ll be adding more posts as I go.

Thanks for reading!