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+---
+title: PR Preview Smoke Test
+publishDate: '2026-07-19'
+author: Jacob Coffee
+description: 'A temporary post used to verify pull request preview deployments.'
+tags:
+  - testing
+published: true
+---
+
+This is a temporary post for testing pull request preview deployments.
+
+If you can read this in the preview, the deployment is serving content from the pull request branch correctly.
+
+## Preview checklist
+
+- The post appears on the blog index.
+- This heading and checklist render correctly.
+- The post has its own working permalink.
+
+```python
+print("PR preview is working!")
+```
+
+This post can be removed after the preview workflow has been verified.