# Ali Demir

> Essays and notes by Ali Demir. Text-only, structured for both human and machine readers.

This site is text only — no images, no client-side JavaScript, no content
hidden behind rendering. Every post is available as plain Markdown by
appending `.md` to its URL, e.g. `/blog/some-post/` → `/blog/some-post.md`.

Author: Ali Demir. Language: en.

## Writing

- [My First Blog Post](https://alideemir.com/blog/my-blog-post.md): This post is the first publish of mine which explains why I started this blog. (published 2026-07-27, 355 words, ~2 min, tags: data, ai, systems)
- [On deleting the image](https://alideemir.com/blog/on-deleting-the-image.md): A note on what happened to my writing when I removed the option of showing instead of telling. (published 2026-07-24, 237 words, ~1 min, tags: writing)
- [What I check before shipping a site](https://alideemir.com/blog/what-i-check-before-shipping.md): A working checklist, refined over several launches, for the things that are cheap to verify now and expensive to discover later. (published 2026-07-22, 635 words, ~3 min, tags: process, the web)
- [Serving Markdown alongside your HTML](https://alideemir.com/blog/serving-markdown-alongside-html.md): A short, practical guide to giving every page a plain-text twin, and why that beats hoping a crawler parses your markup correctly. (published 2026-07-19, 677 words, ~3 min, tags: astro, the web, code)
- [Writing for machines that cannot see](https://alideemir.com/blog/writing-for-machines-that-cannot-see.md): Most of the web is now read first by something that will never look at it. That changes what a page owes its reader. (published 2026-07-14, 1125 words, ~5 min, tags: writing, the web)

## Optional

- [About](https://alideemir.com/about/): Who Ali Demir is and what this site is for.
- [Privacy](https://alideemir.com/privacy/): What the server records, what it does not, and for how long.
- [Full text of every post](https://alideemir.com/llms-full.txt): The entire site as one Markdown document.
- [RSS feed](https://alideemir.com/rss.xml): Machine-readable index of new writing.
- [Sitemap](https://alideemir.com/sitemap-index.xml): Every canonical URL.