Ayush Ranjan
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Links & resources Ā· every linking pattern

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Links are the connective tissue of a blog. Hereā€™s every pattern worth keeping around.

The everyday kind: a regular link, an internal link to another post and a mailto link.

Handy when the same URL shows up repeatedly or you want clean prose. The definitions live at the bottom of the file and donā€™t render:

The Astro docs are great, and so is the MDN reference.

  • Astro is the framework this site is built on.
  • Tailwind CSS handles the styling.
  • Pagefind is the static search that powers the search box.

Annotated bibliography / further reading

Further reading

  • ā€œAttention Is All You Needā€, the transformer paper. PDF. Why it matters: the architecture behind basically everything in modern ML.
  • ā€œA Plan for Spamā€ by Paul Graham. essay. Why it matters: a clean, readable walkthrough of naive Bayes in the wild.

Footnotes

Markdown footnotes are great for asides that would break the flow.1 You can have several.2

End a post by pointing readers somewhere useful:

Footnotes

  1. This renders as a numbered note at the bottom of the page with a back-link. ā†©

  2. Footnote labels can be words, not just numbers. ā†©

Files & downloads Ā· PDFs, slides, datasets
Callouts Ā· note, info, warning, error