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/2026/ACTIVE/hblog-ng
A knowledge-graph blog that turns an Obsidian vault of Markdown into a static site, built with Next.js and LaTeX.
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hblog-ng is my personal digital garden. It is the third blog in a line that started with hblog in 2008 and its rewrite hblog-django. This time the goal was simple: stop building the platform and start writing.
A normal blog is a flat list of posts sorted by date, which is not how I actually think. Here every note is a node, and the wikilinks between notes are the edges. The shape of the site comes from the links between ideas, not from the calendar.
The content lives in an #obsidian vault of plain #markdown, so I write offline in a tool I already use every day. A build step turns those notes into a statically generated site with #nextjs, and I use #typescript across the codebase. There is no server. Everything is rendered at build time.
Math
I write about things that need real notation, so the build renders #latex with KaTeX straight from the markdown:
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Diagrams
Diagrams are written as plain text with #mermaid and rendered at build time, so a drawing sits next to the words that describe it and gets versioned with everything else:
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PGP signatures
Every post is signed with my #pgp key, so a reader can verify the text has not been changed. It is a small thing, but it fits a site that hosts my own writing and research.
Command palette
A command palette opens with
Cmd+K and jumps to any note, project, or tag. It works the way a terminal does, which is how I prefer to move around.Related Nodes
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2008hblog
A custom PHP blog engine built from scratch during my early learning days.
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2011hblog-django
My django learning playground, born as a rewrite of hblog.
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blog
2026Still Human Here
Twenty years, many abandoned blogs, and why an AI-saturated internet finally gave me a reason to write.
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