Blog console — Mockingbyrd

Title Address — set when the post was started, and permanent

Topic — the index's filter rail is built from these Publication date — what the index sorts by

Dek — the sentence under the headline, and the link preview's text Meta description — optional; the dek is used when this is empty The post

## a section heading · ### a smaller one · - a list item
**bold** · *italic* · `code` · [words](https://example.com)
``` on its own line opens and closes a block that is taken literally
A blank line ends a paragraph. Anything else is prose.

Sources — optional, one per line, written Title | https://…

Illustration — the post's lead figure, the index's tile and the link preview

no illustration

At least 1000px wide. The browser scales it, makes the two index tiles and crops a 1200×630 link preview, then uploads all four.

What it shows — the alt text and the caption, which are one sentence