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Headings

Use # through ###### for six levels.

H1 — one hash

H2 — two hashes

H3

H4

H5

H6

Paragraphs and line breaks

End a line with two spaces before a newline
to force a line break inside a paragraph.

Or use a blank line between blocks for new paragraphs.

Emphasis

italic with asterisks
italic with underscores

bold with double asterisks
bold with double underscores

bold and italic
bold and italic

~~strikethrough~~ (GitHub Flavored Markdown)

Links and images

Link text

Link with title

Autolink: https://blog.easygobro.com

Reference-style link: Reference link

Image (placeholder URL — replace with a real asset if you want it to load):

Lists

Unordered

Dash item

Asterisk item

Plus item
- Nested
- Nested two

Ordered

First
Second
Third
1. Nested ordered
2. Another

Task lists (GFM)

Done
Todo
Another task

Blockquote

Single paragraph quote.

Multi-line
quote with a break.

Nested:

Inner quote

Horizontal rule

Three or more:

Inline code

Run npm run dev in the project root.
Paths look like src/pages/index.astro.

Fenced code blocks (syntax highlighting)

Language tags go right after the opening backticks.

Shell / Bash

cd ~/code/easyblog
pwd
ls -la

# Git basics
git status
git pull origin main
git checkout -b feature/my-branch
git add -A
git commit -m "Describe the change"
git push -u origin feature/my-branch

# Git undo / inspect
git log --oneline -10
git diff
git restore path/to/file
git reset --soft HEAD~1

Zsh (same highlighting as bash for many themes)

echo $SHELL
history | tail -20

npm / Node

npm install
npm ci
npm run build
npm run dev
npm run preview
npx astro --version

SSH / server

ssh user@blog.easygobro.com
scp -r ./dist/* user@host:/var/www/easyblog/
rsync -avz --delete dist/ user@host:/var/www/easyblog/

Docker

docker ps -a
docker build -t myapp .
docker run -p 4321:4321 myapp
docker compose up -d
docker logs -f container_name

systemd / Linux

sudo systemctl status nginx
sudo systemctl reload nginx
journalctl -u nginx -f

TypeScript / JavaScript

const site = "https://blog.easygobro.com";

export function greet(name: string): string {
  return `Hello, ${name}`;
}

JSON

{
  "name": "easyblog",
  "scripts": {
    "dev": "astro dev",
    "build": "astro build"
  }
}

YAML (e.g. GitHub Actions)

name: Deploy
on:
  push:
    branches: [main]
jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4

Markdown inside a code block (meta example)

---
title: "Post"
pubDate: 2026-04-09
---

## Hello

Body text.

HTML (shown as code, not executed)

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <title>Example</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <p>Hello</p>
  </body>
</html>

CSS

:root {
  --text: #1a1a1a;
}

.container {
  max-width: 48rem;
  margin: 0 auto;
}

SQL

SELECT id, title, created_at
FROM posts
WHERE published = true
ORDER BY created_at DESC
LIMIT 10;

Python

def main() -> None:
    items = ["a", "b", "c"]
    for i, x in enumerate(items, start=1):
        print(f"{i}: {x}")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

No language tag (plain block)

plain text block
no highlighting

Tables (GFM)

Column A	Column B	Column C
left	center	right
`code`	bold	123

Escaping

Show asterisks: *not italic*
Show backticks: `inline`

Footnotes (if enabled in your Markdown engine)

Footnote example.¹

End of cheat sheet. Edit this file in src/content/blog/markdown-and-commands-cheatsheet.md to add more examples.

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