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Where these articles come from

Six articles on this blog live in files. The others, like this one, come from a shared CMS. The X-ray shows which is which.

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This blog has two sources.

The first six articles are markdown files kept in the site's repository, in content/en/. On first start, cerise copies them into Deno KV, the data store built into its host. When the admin edits them in cerise's editor, that copy is what changes.

The others, this one included, are written in Payload, a CMS hosted on Google Cloud Run. The same CMS also serves the Linteau and Clapet sites. Each article there carries a domain, blog-demo, so each site reads only its own.

To the eye, nothing tells them apart: same template, same rendering. Turn on the X-ray with the "X-ray" button. Each article then shows its source, where it is stored and the path it takes to reach you.

Written elsewhere

This post comes from the shared CMS

It is written in Payload, not in cerise's editor. Open a post from the repository instead: there, everything can be edited.

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This is the markdown as Payload keeps it. The page is built from it when it is read.

This blog has two sources.

The first six articles are markdown files kept in the site's repository, in `content/en/`. On first start, cerise copies them into Deno KV, the data store built into its host. When the admin edits them in cerise's editor, that copy is what changes.

The others, this one included, are written in Payload, a CMS hosted on Google Cloud Run. The same CMS also serves the Linteau and Clapet sites. Each article there carries a domain, `blog-demo`, so each site reads only its own.

To the eye, nothing tells them apart: same template, same rendering. Turn on the X-ray with the "X-ray" button. Each article then shows its source, where it is stored and the path it takes to reach you.