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@@ -33,7 +33,8 @@ During the evolution of the website, the build time has changed dramatically.
 It used to take around 5 minutes to build, with a few optimizations it now only takes up 15 seconds. 
 
 The biggest slowdowns were:
-    * unneeded iterations
+
+* unneeded iterations
         * iterations within iterations (usually not required, if one thinks carefully)
         * `if` conditions within a loop, instead of a `where` clause
         * full iteration to extract a single item (use `first` instead)