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2025-02-27

Hi! This is just a quick post describing the technical inner workings of this site (as of its inception). All posts (including this one) are written using org inside GNU Emacs. I prefer it over markdown because it has more features, is more standardized and handles code highlighting better inside of the editor.

For org -> html conversion I currently use pandoc and a shell script. I know that there is a built-in and probably superior way to do it directly with org, might explore it soon.

Regarding the look/design, I would like it to remain simple enough for something like w3m to render without sacrificing too much.

Lastly, a hello world code highlighting sanity check :]

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
    printf("(display \"hello, world!\")\n");
}