diff --git a/content/_index.md b/content/_index.md
index 971e633..5adda84 100644
--- a/content/_index.md
+++ b/content/_index.md
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 ---
 title: Daniel's Blog
 ---
-This is the index.
+## Hello!
+Welcome to my blog. Here, I write various posts, usually on the topics of
+functional programming, compiler development, programming language theory, and occasionally video games. I hope you find something useful here!
diff --git a/themes/vanilla/layouts/_default/single.html b/themes/vanilla/layouts/_default/single.html
index e69de29..e22c3a1 100644
--- a/themes/vanilla/layouts/_default/single.html
+++ b/themes/vanilla/layouts/_default/single.html
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+{{ define "main" }}
+<h2>{{ .Title }}</h2>
+{{ .Content }}
+{{ end }}
diff --git a/themes/vanilla/layouts/index.html b/themes/vanilla/layouts/index.html
index 9983b08..08554e6 100644
--- a/themes/vanilla/layouts/index.html
+++ b/themes/vanilla/layouts/index.html
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
 {{ define "main" }}
 {{ .Content }}
+
+Recent posts:
+<ul>
+{{ range first 10 (where (where .Site.Pages.ByDate "Section" "blog") ".Kind" "!=" "section") }}
+<li><a href="{{ .Permalink }}">{{ .Title }}</a></li>
+{{ end }}
+</ul>
 {{ end }}