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+# OpenNeo Blog
+
+This is a deathly-simple Jekyll site! The posts are saved as Markdown in the
+`_posts` folder.
+
+To run the site locally for testing, run `_bin/serve.sh`.
+
+To deploy, run `_bin/deploy.sh`—this requires SSH access to our web server,
+though!