Hello World!
Using pckt.blog for everyday use
I found about this blog from a post on Bluesky
Pckt.blog is a quiet place to write posts and sharing with the world. The blog uses bluesky AT protocol, and it has a not too steep a learning curve. Let's check it out. A few things:
- Registering a pckt.blog account is a breeze, if you have a bluesky account, it is intuitive
- Once you log in and decide on the name of your blog and a few other things, you are dropped into a white page that is your blog.
- You can write in plain paragraphs, and then you can use markdown to write your blog
- You can add parts of a document, using the forward slash symbol,
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When you are writing a blog, depending on your use case, you need to add hyperlinks, add lists (this is a numbered list started with typing 1., typing what I wanted in the first item of the list, and then hitting enter
How to Insert hyperlinks
It follows the usual markdown syntax but is peculiar, as you will need to write a text then press forward slash, then select link, go back and select the word if you want to hyperlink and paste the link. The usual [text](link url) does not seem to work. Strange but that's hardly an issue as you add forward slash and then typing your text and copy pasting the link text.
How to Insert Images
There are two types of images: static single images and images that form a gallery.
Images as carousel is relatively straightforward. You can embed a presentation by building the presentation and then importing the files as png files. Here is a presentation in the form of a carousel below:
Then when you view them on your browser, you can view the slideshow directly.
How to insert videos
Get a video link in the form of mp4 and you can embed it directly here:
How to insert code blocks
Single line code blocks are inserted with this is a code block , that is, within a pair of backticks
Multiline code blocks are inserted with
def converttemp(x):
m = x * 9/5 + 32
return m
Nice.