Testing Out Image Embedding

February 17, 2026

Did I mention that I originally wrote my own blogging software last year? That’s what powers my site now. It’s stupid simple and I was originally just using the Django admin to manage it but this morning I added a host of new features including image embedding.

Here’s our creek a few days ago in regular weather (mallard for scale):

And here it is today:

The cool part is I can drag and drop (or paste) into a regular text area and it produces the Markdown for me in the preview. Deleting the Markdown reference will delete the image from view and the server. Amazing.