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3 New blog

Welcome to my new blog. Since it is a tradition to people talk about the stack they choose for their blogs, I’ll follow the same path.

3.1 Stack

There is nothing fancy here. Just some sexy old school software.

As expected, this is a static website. GNU Texinfo were used to generate this pages. The Texinfo is for manuals, not for blogging, although, it nicely fits into my expectations.

3.2 Comments

The comment section is just mailing archive, there is a cron job that connects into my email over IMAP and fetch emails related to the post.

I’ll talk more about how it works in another post.

3.3 Look and feel

The blog style was inspired in how this page is rendered in the terminal using w3m. You can try it out: 

w3m "https://maniero.me/New-blog.html"

A fun fact about it is that while most of pages usually uses px or rem are commonly used, the unit measure used in this blog is ch to keep a terminal-like look and feel.

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Comments updated at: 2025-06-27 05:18:10 UTC

  1. From: Johnny Richard <john**@*************.***>
    Date: 2025-05-05 09:33:19 UTC

    Great job, very minimalist setup.

I am wondering if everybody is okay on making email address public.

Perhaps the client filter could reformat the email addresses to make
hard for bots spam (something like [email protected] ->
email[at]example.com).

Since you are using textinfo, the home page has also the subtitles
listed in there (https://maniero.me/maniero.me/). I think just the title
is enough, I believe you can achieve it on texinfo.
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    1. Date: 2025-05-06 02:41:36 UTC

      > I am wondering if everybody is okay on making email address public.

I masked the email as you suggested! Unfortunately it still available
over the mbox so I included a note in the "add comment" section.

> Since you are using textinfo, the home page has also the subtitles
> ..., I believe you can achieve it on texinfo.

Did you believe it does not seems like to be possible? I tried my best
but I could find a way to hide it, so I did a little trick with css. :-(

Thank you very much for your inputs! I really appreciate.
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