arabicrtli18n
Publishing Arabic documentation: what RTL-first actually takes
What it takes to publish Arabic documentation well: logical CSS, bidirectional text, Arabic search tokenization, per-language trees, hreflang, and fonts.
7 min read
Blog
Docs, open source, and ownership
Guides and notes from building Nibleaf — self-hosting, Markdown, bilingual documentation, and honest looks at the docs tooling landscape.
markdowncontent-ownership
Your Docs Should Live in Plain Markdown (Even With a Visual Editor)
Why plain Markdown is the portability contract for documentation — greppable, diffable, AI-ready — and how a visual editor can round-trip it cleanly.
7 min read
announcementopen-source
Introducing Nibleaf: The Open-Source Mintlify Alternative
Nibleaf is an open-source, self-hostable Mintlify alternative with a WYSIWYG Markdown editor, versioned publishing, built-in search, and real Arabic support.
7 min read
comparisonopen-source
Open-source documentation tools in 2026: how to choose
An honest comparison of Docusaurus, MkDocs Material, Starlight, Fumadocs, BookStack, Wiki.js, and Nibleaf: authoring, search, i18n/RTL, hosting.
7 min read
self-hostingdockerguide
Self-Host a Documentation Site with Docker Compose
A practical walkthrough for self-hosting a documentation site with Docker Compose: server sizing, .env secrets, custom domains, backups, and upgrades.
6 min read
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