date: <YYYY-MM-DD> layout: column.njk tags: [column, <computing | philosophy | society | writing>] permalink: /columns/<year>/<slug>/ --- Open in the middle of the thought. No headline restated, no throat-clearing — column.njk renders `title` as the h1 already, and the shortest columns are a single unbroken paragraph that starts where the idea starts and stops when it runs out. Copy this to drafts/<YYYY-MM-DD>-<slug>.md and fill the front matter in. It renders at its real permalink on the dev server and nowhere else. Publishing is `git mv drafts/<file> columns/` — the front matter is already complete, so leaving this directory is the whole act, and moving it back retracts it.

--- title: date: <YYYY-MM-DD> layout: column.njk tags: [column, <computing | philosophy | society | writing>] permalink: /columns/<year>/<slug>/ --- Open in the middle of the thought. No headline restated, no throat-clearing — column.njk renders `title` as the h1 already, and the shortest columns are a single unbroken paragraph that starts where the idea starts and stops when it runs out. Copy this to drafts/<YYYY-MM-DD>-<slug>.md and fill the front matter in. It renders at its real permalink on the dev server and nowhere else. Publishing is `git mv drafts/<file> columns/` — the front matter is already complete, so leaving this directory is the whole act, and moving it back retracts it.