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Alexandre Gomes Gaigalas – 2025-05-26 Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

For a while now, I've been wanting to start a technical blog. I decided to transform this simple, hand-crafted HTML website into a platform for it.

It is as close as pure HTML as you can get. I create posts by writing the HTML by hand, and there is a 80-line (at the time of writing) shell script that manages the content.

I decided not to use any form of markdown or any form of templating for the solution. However, my solution has some nice tricks on its sleeve:

• If I change the index.html header, the shell script updates all the post pages for me.
• The script automatically selects the last five posts to highlight on index.html.

There is no manual, no repository project, no way of sharing the solution (for now). That's by design. As I (hopefully) write more often, more tools and functionality will be needed.