arachne

Arachne, named after the weaver in Greek myth, is what renders this site.

struct

Arachne parses files called tomes written in custom Indental and Runic formats and renders static web pages. Additional data is derived from my time-tracker and Intra databases.

page
  .key: value
  .body
    value
    ~h1 heading 1
    ~h2 heading 2
    ~p paragraph
    ~code code block
    ~ol ordered list
      list item
    ~ul unordered list
      list item
    ~img image | caption
    ~html custom HTML block
    ~quote
      quote
      .author: author
      .source: source
      .link: url
    ~p [!text | ISO 639-1!]
    ~p [/time | timestamp/]
    ~p [^abbr | meaning^]
    ~p [+text | link+]
    ~p [#inline code#]
    ~p [?db.query?]
    ~p [_key_]

stats

Arachne’s output presently contains 1161 files (68 MB): 924 media files (66 MB) and 178 pages (1 MB) rendered from 33 tomes (386 kB) and 5 Intra summaries (212 kB). Efficiency is at 279 %.

Do more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing.
—R. Buckminster Fuller, Nine Chains to the Moon

Efficiency is the ratio of tomes to web pages. A 1:1 ratio means I might as well manually type HTML. The dream is a self-documenting wiki with minimal to no input.

history

Here are some of the site’s previous iterations. I never can seem to settle. I’m happy with the one you’re browsing now, but I’ll probably change it again later.