Kitchen sink for my blog.

Published May 15, 2022

Random hero image — Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book.

It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged.

It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.

Where does it come from?

Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage, and going through the cites of the word in classical literature, discovered the undoubtable source.

Lorem Ipsum comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of “de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum” (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC. This book is a treatise on the theory of ethics, very popular during the Renaissance. The first line of Lorem Ipsum, “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..”, comes from a line in section 1.10.32.

The standard chunk of Lorem Ipsum used since the 1500s is reproduced below for those interested. Sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 from “de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum” by Cicero are also reproduced in their exact original form, accompanied by English versions from the 1914 translation by H. Rackham.

Markdown kitchen sink

Text can be bold, italic, or ~~strikethrough~~.

Link to another page.

There should be whitespace between paragraphs.

There should be whitespace between paragraphs. We recommend including a README, or a file with information about your project.

Header 1

This is a normal paragraph following a header. GitHub is a code hosting platform for version control and collaboration. It lets you and others work together on projects from anywhere.

Header 2

Google.com

This is a blockquote following a header.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Text between blockquotes

This is a blockquote following a header.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Header 3

// Javascript code with syntax highlighting.
var fun = function lang(l) {
  dateformat.i18n = require('./lang/' + l)
  return true;
}

# Ruby code with syntax highlighting
GitHubPages::Dependencies.gems.each do |gem, version|
  s.add_dependency(gem, "= #{version}")
end

Header 3

This is an unordered list following a header.
This is an unordered list following a header.
This is an unordered list following a header.

Header 3

This is an ordered list following a header.
This is an ordered list following a header.
This is an ordered list following a header.

Header 3

This is a very long link which wraps and therefore doesn’t overflow even when it comes at the beginning of the line.

This is a very long link which wraps and therefore doesn’t overflow the line when used first in an item in a list.

Tables

head1	head two	three
ok	good swedish fish	nice
out of stock	good and plenty	nice
ok	good `oreos`	hmm
ok	good `zoute` drop	yumm

There’s a horizontal rule below this.

Unordered list

Item foo
Item bar
Item baz
Item zip

Ordered list:

Item one
Item two
Item three
Item four

Nested list

level 1 item
- level 2 item
- level 2 item
  - level 3 item
  - level 3 item
level 1 item
- level 2 item
- level 2 item
- level 2 item
level 1 item
- level 2 item
- level 2 item
level 1 item

Nesting an ol in ul in an ol

level 1 item (ul)
1. level 2 item (ol)
2. level 2 item (ol)
- level 3 item (ul)
- level 3 item (ul)
level 1 item (ul)
1. level 2 item (ol)
2. level 2 item (ol)
- level 3 item (ul)
- level 3 item (ul)
1. level 4 item (ol)
2. level 4 item (ol)
- level 3 item (ul)
- level 3 item (ul)
level 1 item (ul)

And a task list

Hello, this is a TODO item
Hello, this is another TODO item
Goodbye, this item is done

Nesting task lists

Nesting a ul in a task list

level 1 item (task)
- level 2 item (ul)
- level 2 item (ul)
level 1 item (task)
level 1 item (task)

Nesting a task list in a ul

level 1 item (ul)
- level 2 item (task)
- level 2 item (task)
level 1 item (ul)
level 1 item (ul)

Small image

Large image

Photograph by Pawel Czerwinski @ Unsplash.

Definition lists

Name: Godzilla
Born: 1952
Birthplace: Japan
Color: Green

Mathematics

You can write $math$ using dollar signs, which gets rendered using $\KaTeX$ . $\frac{1}{2}$ is a fraction.

L = \frac{1}{2} \rho v^2 S C_L

This also supports aligned code, matrices, complex environments, etc. through $\KaTeX$ . See their list of supported environments for more.

\begin{align} a&=b+c \\ d+e&=f \end{align}

\begin{bmatrix} a & b \\ c & d \end{bmatrix}

\begin{CD} A @>a>> B \\ @VbVV @AAcA \\ C @= D \end{CD}

More code

# This is a long comment that targets the very first function
def dump_args(func):
    "This decorator dumps out the arguments passed to a function before calling it"
    argnames = func.func_code.co_varnames[:func.func_code.co_argcount]
    fname = func.func_name
    def echo_func(*args,**kwargs):
        print fname, ":", ', '.join(
            '%s=%r' % entry
            for entry in zip(argnames,args) + kwargs.items())
        return func(*args, **kwargs)
    return echo_func

@dump_args
def f1(a,b,c):
    print a + b + c

f1(1, 2, 3)

def precondition(precondition, use_conditions=DEFAULT_ON):
    return conditions(precondition, None, use_conditions)

def postcondition(postcondition, use_conditions=DEFAULT_ON):
    return conditions(None, postcondition, use_conditions)

class conditions(object):
    __slots__ = ('__precondition', '__postcondition')

    def __init__(self, pre, post, use_conditions=DEFAULT_ON):
        if not use_conditions:
            pre, post = None, None

        self.__precondition  = pre
        self.__postcondition = post

Long, single-line code blocks should not wrap. They should horizontally scroll if they are too long. This line should be long enough to demonstrate this.

Long, single-line code blocks should not wrap. They should horizontally scroll if they are too long. This line should be long enough to demonstrate this.

Write-Host 'This displays a PowerShell frame with a title'

Mermaid Diagrams

The following code is displayed as a diagram only when a mermaid key supplied in _config.yml.

graph TD;
    A-->B;
    A-->C;
    B-->D;
    C-->D;

Collapsed Section

The following uses the <details> tag to create a collapsed section.

Shopping list (click me!)

This is content inside a <details> dropdown.

Apples
Oranges
Milk