HOSTING

2025-07-21

I've added a small documentation on how to use `plain-text-blog` with Github 
pages or Codeberg pages. It's a bit tedious with Codeberg, but I guess it's 
because I wanted to keep both my "core" codebase with the Makefile and README 
*and* the blog content in a different branch. I'm almost sure that just putting 
an `index.html` with the minimal redirect instruction *and* the target 
plain-text blog page is enough.

Happy blog-posting!

CHARSETS

2025-07-17

I've added a small section in the README.md of the project to help users 
correctly configure their HTTP server and they're writing using non-ASCII 
characters. This behaviour caught me by surprise on my French-speaking personal 
blog, so I thought it would help others. I may add other configuration 
instructions if I find other ways to serve plain text files.

DEMO

2025-07-12

I received a kind message from Raul, the author of minim.blog[^1], which was 
the initial inspiration for creating this "blogging engine" tool. In his 
message, he asked me if I had a demo website… Well… there it is, now.

It's hosted on Codeberg, in the demo branch of the plain-text-blog project[^2]. 
I've only added a small "_redirects" file at the root of the project to 
indicate Codeberg pages that the main content of the blog was at 
https://brunobord.codeberg.page/plain-text-blog/@demo/blog/posts.txt

This demo blog will probably be used as a Dev Log for the project, so I may add 
my thoughts and keep you updated about the news of this humble tool.

Thank you very much to Raul for the suggestion, it surely shows how quick a 
setup can be.

1. add the redirection in the appropriate file
2. edit the posts.txt file to add your blog entries
3. push the branch
4. Voilà ! (sometimes you have to wait a few minutes, but are we really in a 
hurry?)

As usual with this peculiar project, I'll probably rebase from the main 
upstream branche and push-force whenever the code will change significantly. 
You're being warned.

[^1]: https://minim.blog/posts.txt
[^2]: https://codeberg.org/brunobord/plain-text-blog/src/branch/demo