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2025 has been one busy year for me! I feel as though I've been working on a dozen things at once and have spent much of my working (and personal) days productively. Miracle finally feels like it's getting somewhere fast, the Flutter multi-window work is landing at a solid pace, and Mir is feeling like a truly solid option for Wayland compositor development. I will refrain from speaking too much on the Flutter and Mir work in this post, as those are best left in the hands of Canonical.

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Miracle has come a long way this past year. I now feel entirely confident using it as my daily driver, minus a few hiccups that I encounter in-between releases. A lot of great things are cooking for 2026 too,

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2025 has been a whirlwind of a year, and I'm sure that 2026 won't slow down at all for me. A lot of the long term projects that I've been working on are finally coming together, and I feel as though I am on the cusp of making software that I'm truly proud of. On top of that, I am engaged! What a time to be alive :) I hope you all have a lovely New Year with your friends, family, cats, dogs, and everything else.

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I've recently fallen in love with org-mode, specifically when I use it with org-roam. I find the whole workflow of creating, tagging, and - later on - searching for information on my computer to be very elegant. On top of that, now that I have the time, I want to begin writing blog posts to better work out my thoughts. With both of these things in mind, I am again turning to the universal tool for human prospering: org-mode. This time, I want to see how it can help me turn a simple org file into a blog post on my website. My requirements are:

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As a pilot, we are going to use this org file that I am currently writing (hello.org) as our guinea pig. The goal is to have this org file be our very first blog post.

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Next thing on our list is custom styling. This can be achieved by first installing the htmlize package from melpa / elpa. The EmacsWiki describes this as "a package for exporting the contents of an Emacs buffer to HTML while respecting display properties such as colors, fonts, underlining, invisibility, etc" (reference). If used "out-of-the-box", the buffer will be exported to HTML with all of the styles inlined (e.g. if you underline something in your org file, you will generate a <span style="text-decoration: underline">...</span>). However, we are more interested in styling everything by ourselves: we don't want htmlize making assumptions about what underlining means to us! Luckily, htmlize gives us the option to export with class names instead of inline styles so that we can specify each style for ourselves.

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I like to include the creation date on the blog posts. To do this, we can use org-publish-find-property to find the date property of the org file. Afterward, we can format a string that includes our formatted timestamp and the org-publish-sitemap-default-entry, which is just a link with the title of the post.

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I use Org-roam for all of my note-taking and, in the next blog post, I plan to demonstrate how I will hook up my Org-roam note-taking workflow to my blogging. In the meantime, just know that we can add tags to the top of our org files like this:

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There are many more customizations that I plan to do on this system in the future, but I plan to leave this for now so that I can actually get to some blogging. I will proofread and fix my mistakes as time goes on, but this should be a good jumping off point for anyone interested in using org for their own blogging system.

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Whoops! I missed this month's update by a long shot, but I still want to get it out there before the end of the month.

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I've been meaning to do these little blog-post type updates for a while, and I figured now is as good a time as any. So let's start :)

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