How publishing works here

Each article starts with a few lines of metadata: a title, a summary, its tags. The file name carries the rest: the date and time, a short id, and the words in the address. When the site is built, two rules decide what goes out:

1. A draft never ships. Mark an article a draft and it stays out of every build, however finished it looks.
2. Everything else is live, newest first, with pinned pieces leading the front page.

Because the decision is made once, at build time, a page on this site is just a file. There is nothing to compute when you ask for it, which is why it arrives so quickly.

Taking an article down is the same move in reverse: mark it a draft, push, and the next build leaves it out. Its old address becomes an ordinary “not found”.