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+This is the repository for the homebrewserver.club website.
+
+We switched to a pelican driven static website.
+Read about the palican workflow [here](pelican_howto.txt)
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+All the old material for the previous site is in the branch/old-website
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-Title: This is a template for a post
-Date: 2016-5-14
-Category: log
-Tags: try-out
-Slug: the-template-post
-Summary: If you write a summary that is the only text that shows up on the main index. Otherwise pelican takes the first few paragraphs.
-Description: Write a tweet length description for OG tags that are displayed on social media.
-featured_image: https://cdn1.nyt.com/images/2017/02/26/world/26NKOREA3/26NKOREA3-articleLarge.jpg
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-This is a template you can use with a short description of some of the syntax.
-
-**bold** *italics*
-
-images:
-![image description]({filename}images/myimage.png)
-
-urls:
-[http://homebrewserver.club/](This is our webpage)
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-references in text:
-
-hello I need to be referenced[ref] this creates a numbered list at the bottom of the page, not bad no? it can be styles in the [css](http://homebrewserver.club/theme/css/main.css) by addressing the class simple-footnotes[/ref]
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-headlines
---
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-smaller headlines?
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-#H1
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-##H2
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-###H3
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-code blocks:
-
-	:::console
-	echo "for general console commands"
-
-python
-	:::python
-	a = "python"
-	print "also for"
-	for i in a:
-		print i
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-line numbers
-
-	#!python
-	print("line1")
-