diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index ac45d44..fe8f8af 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -14,10 +14,13 @@
 	"dependencies": {
 		"@dimforge/rapier2d": "^0.11.2",
 		"@tldraw/tldraw": "2.0.2",
+		"@types/markdown-it": "^14.1.1",
 		"@vercel/analytics": "^1.2.2",
+		"gray-matter": "^4.0.3",
 		"react": "^18.2.0",
 		"react-dom": "^18.2.0",
-		"react-router-dom": "^6.22.3"
+		"react-router-dom": "^6.22.3",
+		"vite-plugin-md": "^0.21.5"
 	},
 	"devDependencies": {
 		"@biomejs/biome": "1.4.1",
diff --git a/src/App.tsx b/src/App.tsx
index 0885a60..ed14069 100644
--- a/src/App.tsx
+++ b/src/App.tsx
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import { useCanvas } from "@/hooks/useCanvas"
 import { createShapes } from "@/utils";
 import { BrowserRouter, Route, Routes } from 'react-router-dom';
 import { Contact } from "@/components/Contact";
+import { Post } from '@/components/Post';
 inject();
 
 ReactDOM.createRoot(document.getElementById("root")!).render(<App />);
@@ -23,6 +24,7 @@ function App() {
 				<Routes>
 					<Route path="/" element={<Home />} />
 					<Route path="/card/contact" element={<Contact />} />
+					<Route path="/posts/:slug" element={<Post />} />
 				</Routes>
 			</BrowserRouter>
 		</React.StrictMode>
diff --git a/src/components/Default.tsx b/src/components/Default.tsx
index 67332e0..5c5022b 100644
--- a/src/components/Default.tsx
+++ b/src/components/Default.tsx
@@ -23,9 +23,8 @@ export function Default() {
       <h1>My work</h1>
       <p>
         Alongside my independent work I am a researcher at <a href="https://block.science/">Block Science</a> building{' '}
-        <i>knowledge organisation infrastructure</i> and at <a href="https://economicspace.agency/">ECSA</a> working on{' '}
-        <i>computational media</i>. I am also part of the nascent <a href="https://libcomp.org/">Liberatory Computing</a>{' '}
-        collective and a co-organiser of the <a href="https://canvasprotocol.org/">OCWG</a>.
+        <i>knowledge organisation infrastructure</i> and an engineer-in-residence at <a href="https://tldraw.com">tldraw</a>. I am also part of the nascent <a href="https://libcomp.org/">Liberatory Computing</a>{' '}
+        collective, occasional collaborator with <a href="https://economicspace.agency/">ECSA</a> and a co-organiser of the <a href="https://canvasprotocol.org/">OCWG</a>.
       </p>
 
       <h1>Get in touch</h1>
diff --git a/src/components/Post.tsx b/src/components/Post.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d9f6754
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/components/Post.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+import React from 'react';
+import { useParams } from 'react-router-dom';
+
+export function Post() {
+  const { slug } = useParams<{ slug: string }>();
+  const [post, setPost] = React.useState<{ title: string, html: string } | null>(null);
+
+  React.useEffect(() => {
+    import(`../posts/${slug}.md`)
+      .then((module) => {
+        setPost(module.default);
+      })
+      .catch((error) => {
+        console.error('Failed to load post:', error);
+        setPost(null);
+      });
+  }, [slug]);
+
+  if (!post) {
+    return <div>Loading...</div>;
+  }
+
+  return (
+    <main>
+      <h1>{post.title}</h1>
+      <div dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{ __html: post.html }} />
+    </main>
+  );
+}
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diff --git a/src/posts/test.md b/src/posts/test.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..11aaa28
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/posts/test.md
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+# This is a title
+this is some text under the title
+
+here is an image:
+![image](image.png)
+
+requirements:
+- basic html (headings, quotes, italics, bold...)
+- images and videos (easy authoring, what are the vercel limits too?)
+- static gen, we don't want SPA pop-in, we want 100% prerendered html
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diff --git a/src/utils/markdownToHtml.ts b/src/utils/markdownToHtml.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..857eabb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/utils/markdownToHtml.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+import MarkdownIt from 'markdown-it';
+
+const md = new MarkdownIt({
+  html: true,
+  breaks: true,
+  linkify: true,
+});
+
+// Customize Markdown-to-HTML mapping here
+md.renderer.rules.paragraph_open = () => '<p class="custom-paragraph">';
+md.renderer.rules.image = (tokens, idx, options, env, self) => {
+  const token = tokens[idx];
+  const src = token.attrGet('src');
+  const alt = token.content;
+  return `<img src="${src}" alt="${alt}" class="custom-image" />`;
+};
+
+export function markdownToHtml(content: string): string {
+  return md.render(content);
+}
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diff --git a/tsconfig.node.json b/tsconfig.node.json
index 42872c5..bf67dd4 100644
--- a/tsconfig.node.json
+++ b/tsconfig.node.json
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 {
-  "compilerOptions": {
-    "composite": true,
-    "skipLibCheck": true,
-    "module": "ESNext",
-    "moduleResolution": "bundler",
-    "allowSyntheticDefaultImports": true
-  },
-  "include": ["vite.config.ts"]
+	"compilerOptions": {
+		"composite": true,
+		"skipLibCheck": true,
+		"module": "ESNext",
+		"moduleResolution": "bundler",
+		"allowSyntheticDefaultImports": true
+	},
+	"include": ["vite.config.ts", "src/utils/*"]
 }
diff --git a/vite.config.ts b/vite.config.ts
index 9b55a11..77bb315 100644
--- a/vite.config.ts
+++ b/vite.config.ts
@@ -1,13 +1,29 @@
-import { defineConfig } from 'vite'
+import { defineConfig, Plugin } from 'vite'
 import react from '@vitejs/plugin-react'
 import wasm from "vite-plugin-wasm";
 import topLevelAwait from "vite-plugin-top-level-await";
+import matter from 'gray-matter';
+import { markdownToHtml } from './src/utils/markdownToHtml';
+
+const markdownPlugin: Plugin = {
+  name: 'markdown-plugin',
+  enforce: 'pre',
+  transform(code, id) {
+    if (id.endsWith('.md')) {
+      const { data, content } = matter(code);
+      const html = markdownToHtml(content);
+      const jsonContent = JSON.stringify({ ...data, html });
+      return `export default ${jsonContent};`;
+    }
+  },
+};
 
 export default defineConfig({
   plugins: [
     react(),
     wasm(),
-    topLevelAwait()
+    topLevelAwait(),
+    markdownPlugin
   ],
   build: {
     sourcemap: true, // Enable source maps for production