Home page: homePosts setting, 15 sample news posts
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YDRjtmAiNpo5mK5N3d7QwZ
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@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ Content pages are Markdown with YAML front matter and can be corrected by hand,
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creates `content/post/<today>-my-title.md` (any `.md` file in `content/post/` is a post). The
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date comes from the file name unless `date:` is set; `author:` is optional; the name
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links to `/author/<name>/`, which lists all posts by that author. For a banner, put an
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image under `static/media/` and set `banner: /media/....jpg`. Write the text in Markdown and
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remove `draft: true` to publish. The five most recent posts appear on the home page with their
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image under `static/media/` and set `banner: /media/....jpg` (`image:` works too). Write the text in Markdown and
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remove `draft: true` to publish. The most recent posts (`homePosts` in `hugo.toml`, 5 by default) appear on the home page with their
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banner, date, author and summary (`summary:` in the front matter, or the text before
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`<!--more-->`, or the first lines); all posts are listed under News. Posts are never touched by
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`make content`.
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title: How the site is being rebuilt
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date: '2026-09-11'
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author: olipix
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banner: /media/museum/photos/commodore_64_system_s2.jpg
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summary: A few words on where these pages come from.
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sample: true
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---
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The pages you are reading come from the copies of old-computers.com kept by the Internet Archive. Only copies made before the site was damaged are used, and each page links to the capture it was recovered from, at the bottom.
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The store is not part of the rebuild. Everything else is being restored section by section: museum, companies, software, history, magazine and fun.
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title: Stupid scans are back
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date: '2026-09-13'
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author: yann64
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banner: /media/museum/adverts/commodore-64_uk-advert_2.jpg
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summary: The fun section and its collection of unlikely advertising pictures is being restored.
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sample: true
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---
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Old computer adverts were not always a model of good taste. The [fun section](/fun/) collected the strangest of them under the name stupid scans, with comments to match. More than forty of them are back.
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The section also has the e-cards. The quiz, sadly, could not be recovered.
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title: When Commodore introduced the PET
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date: '2026-09-15'
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author: olipix
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banner: /media/history/images/commodore_pet_system_3.jpg
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summary: Five years before the C64, Commodore's first computer came in one piece, screen and tape drive included.
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sample: true
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---
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The timeline entry [Commodore introduces the PET](/history/commodore-introduces-the-pet/) is back. With the Apple II and the TRS-80, the PET was one of the three ready-to-use machines that reached the public in 1977.
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The history section also has a comparison of the [PET and the Sharp MZ-80K](/history/commodore-pet-vs-sharp-mz-80k/), two machines built on a very similar idea.
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title: The mother of all demos
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date: '2026-09-17'
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author: yann64
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banner: /media/history/images/timeline_1268_motherdemo_s1.jpg
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summary: A mouse, windows and hypertext, shown to an audience in 1968.
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sample: true
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In December 1968 Douglas Engelbart presented the mouse, on-screen windows, hypertext and shared editing in a single session. The history entry on [the mother of all demos](/history/the-mother-of-all-demos/) has been recovered.
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For what came next, see the entry on the [Xerox Alto](/history/xerox-alto/), the research machine that turned these ideas into a desktop.
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title: The 8086, the chip behind the PC
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date: '2026-09-19'
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author: olipix
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banner: /media/history/images/timeline_0478_intel8086_2.jpg
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summary: The timeline entry on Intel's 16-bit processor is back online.
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sample: true
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---
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In 1978 Intel introduced the 8086. Nobody could know then that its architecture would still be around decades later. The history section has an entry on [the launch of the 8086](/history/intel-introduces-the-8086-microprocessor/), and another on [the 8088](/history/the-8088-first-intel-s-really-successful-cpu/) that IBM chose for its PC.
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Browse the [history section](/history/) for the rest of the timeline.
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title: Kaypro, loyal to its customers
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date: '2026-09-21'
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author: yann64
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banner: /media/museum/photos/commodore_c64_hr_keyboard.jpg
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summary: The story of a company that stayed with CP/M a little too long.
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sample: true
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The page of the [Kaypro PC & 286i](/museum/kaypro-pc-286i/) tells how the maker of the famous portable CP/M machines finally moved to PC compatibles, later than most of its competitors.
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The page also keeps fourteen comments from former owners. Reading them is a good reminder of what this site was for. (The banner is a stand-in picture: this is a test post.)
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title: Oric disks on a PC, and back
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date: '2026-09-23'
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author: olipix
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banner: /media/magazine/articles/12/inside_2.jpg
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summary: 'Another recovered how-to: moving files between an Oric and a PC.'
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sample: true
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---
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Getting data off thirty-year-old floppies is a recurring problem for collectors. The article [Oric 2 PC / PC 2 Oric](/magazine/oric-2-pc-pc-2-oric/) describes one way to do it, with the drive, the power supply and the software needed.
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It is one of seventeen magazine articles available again, including event reports and interviews.
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title: A hard disk for your 8-bit Atari
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date: '2026-09-25'
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author: yann64
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banner: /media/magazine/articles/13/sio2ide_1.jpg
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summary: A magazine article explains how to connect an IDE drive to an Atari 8-bit computer.
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sample: true
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The magazine section is being restored along with the museum. One of the recovered articles is a step-by-step guide to [SIO2IDE](/magazine/sio2ide-or-how-to-install-a-hard-disk-in-your-8-bit-atari/), an interface that lets an 8-bit Atari use an IDE hard disk.
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The article keeps its original photos, so you can follow the build from the bare board to the finished installation.
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title: Calling at 1200 baud
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date: '2026-09-27'
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author: olipix
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banner: /media/museum/hardware/commodore_modem1200_1.jpg
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summary: Long before broadband, going online meant a modem, a phone line and a lot of patience.
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sample: true
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The Commodore 1200 baud modem is one of the peripherals pictured in the [C64 hardware gallery](/museum/commodore-c64/hardware/). With it, a home computer could dial into a bulletin board system and exchange messages and files.
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The history section has an entry on the bulletin boards themselves: see [BBS, the World Wide Web father](/history/bbs-the-world-wide-web-father/).
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title: 'More sound for the C64: the Sound Expander'
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date: '2026-09-29'
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author: yann64
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banner: /media/museum/hardware/commodore_sound-expander_hr_left_1.jpg
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summary: The hardware gallery shows how far owners went to get more music out of their machine.
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sample: true
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The SID was already a remarkable chip, but that did not stop anyone from adding more. The [hardware tab](/museum/commodore-c64/hardware/) of the Commodore 64 shows the Sound Expander cartridge among more than forty peripherals and extensions.
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Samplers, speech synthesisers, drum machines: the list says a lot about what people wanted to do with a home computer in the mid-eighties.
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title: 'The first home console: the Magnavox Odyssey'
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date: '2026-10-01'
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author: olipix
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banner: /media/museum/photos/magnavox_odyssey_3.jpg
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summary: Before cartridges and joysticks, there was a white and brown box with plastic screen overlays.
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sample: true
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The [Magnavox Odyssey](/museum/magnavox-odyssey/) of 1972 is generally considered the first home video game console. Its museum page is back, with photos of the console and its unusual controllers.
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Its successor, the [Odyssey 100](/museum/magnavox-odyssey-100/), is online too. Both belong to the consoles section, which will grow as more pages are recovered.
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title: The Apple II returns to the museum
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date: '2026-10-03'
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author: yann64
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banner: /media/museum/hardware/apple_ii_softcard_s1.jpg
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summary: One of the three machines that opened the home computer market in 1977 has its page again.
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sample: true
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The [Apple II](/museum/apple-ii/) page has been recovered, together with its hardware gallery. The picture above shows one of its best-known expansion cards, which let the machine run CP/M software.
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The timeline also has entries on the machine's announcement and first deliveries, and on the Disk II drive that gave it a second life.
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title: Space Invaders, the game that emptied pockets
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date: '2026-10-05'
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author: olipix
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banner: /media/history/images/timeline_0278_spaceinv_1.jpg
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summary: The history section tells how a 1978 arcade cabinet changed the video game business.
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sample: true
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Our timeline entry on [Space Invaders](/history/space-invaders/) is back. Designed by Toshihiro Nishikado and released by Taito in 1978, the game turned arcades into a mass phenomenon.
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It is one of more than sixty history entries recovered so far, covering hardware, software, companies and people of the early microcomputer years.
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title: 'Inside the C64: a look at the mainboard'
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date: '2026-10-07'
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author: yann64
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banner: /media/museum/photos/commodore64_mainboard_s2.jpg
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summary: The photo gallery of the Commodore 64 includes views of the board that made it all happen.
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sample: true
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Among the recovered pictures of the [Commodore 64](/museum/commodore-c64/photos/) are several shots of its mainboard, where the 6510 processor sits next to the VIC-II video chip and the SID.
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If you ever opened one to change a fuse or to reseat a chip, you will recognise it at once. If you never did, the photos are a safer way to have a look.
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title: The Commodore 64 pages are online
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date: '2026-10-09'
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author: olipix
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banner: /media/museum/photos/commodore_c64_hr_front.jpg
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summary: The best-selling home computer of the 1980s is the first machine fully restored in the museum.
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sample: true
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The [Commodore 64](/museum/commodore-c64/) is the first machine to come back with all of its pages: photos, adverts, hardware, connectors, emulators, links, documents, videos and the comments left by visitors over the years.
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Launched in 1982, the C64 owed much of its reputation to its SID sound chip and to a games library that few machines of its time could match. Its page is also a good test for the rebuild, because it is one of the largest of the whole site.
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date = ["date", ":filename", ":default"]
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[params]
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# number of news posts summarised on the home page (the News page lists them all)
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homePosts = 5
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description = "The Old-Computers.com museum of computers, consoles and pongs, rebuilt from the Wayback Machine archive."
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[taxonomies]
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{{/* dict "page" <post> "width" <px> -> URL of the post banner, resized when it is a bundle image */}}
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{{/* dict "page" <post> "width" <px> -> URL of the post banner (`banner:`, or `image:`), resized when it is a bundle image */}}
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{{- $url := "" -}}
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{{- with .page.Params.banner -}}
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{{- with (.page.Params.banner | default .page.Params.image) -}}
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{{- with $.page.Resources.GetMatch . -}}
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{{- if and (eq .MediaType.MainType "image") (ne .MediaType.SubType "svg") -}}
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{{- $url = (.Resize (printf "%dx" $.width)).RelPermalink -}}
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<div class="content">{{ .Content }}</div>
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{{ with site.GetPage "/post" }}
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{{ $posts := .RegularPages.ByDate.Reverse }}
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{{ $max := site.Params.homePosts | default 5 }}
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{{ if $posts }}
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<h2>{{ .Title }}</h2>
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<div class="posts">
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{{ range first 5 $posts }}{{ partial "post-summary.html" . }}{{ end }}
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{{ range first $max $posts }}{{ partial "post-summary.html" . }}{{ end }}
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</div>
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{{ if gt (len $posts) 5 }}<p><a href="{{ .RelPermalink }}">All posts →</a></p>{{ end }}
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{{ if gt (len $posts) $max }}<p><a href="{{ .RelPermalink }}">All posts →</a></p>{{ end }}
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{{ end }}
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{{ end }}
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