diff --git a/lib/site_template/index.html b/lib/site_template/index.html
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--- a/lib/site_template/index.html
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: default
----
-
-<div class="home">
-
-  <h1 class="page-heading">Posts</h1>
-
-  <ul class="post-list">
-    {% for post in site.posts %}
-      <li>
-        <span class="post-meta">{{ post.date | date: "%b %-d, %Y" }}</span>
-
-        <h2>
-          <a class="post-link" href="{{ post.url | prepend: site.baseurl }}">{{ post.title | escape }}</a>
-        </h2>
-      </li>
-    {% endfor %}
-  </ul>
-
-  <p class="rss-subscribe">subscribe <a href="{{ "/feed.xml" | prepend: site.baseurl }}">via RSS</a></p>
-
-</div>
diff --git a/lib/site_template/index.md b/lib/site_template/index.md
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index 00000000..1eb5d672
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/site_template/index.md
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+---
+# You don't need to edit this file, it's empty on purpose.
+# Edit theme's home layout instead if you wanna make some changes
+# See: https://jekyllrb.com/docs/themes/#overriding-theme-defaults
+layout: home
+---