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
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.
further reading
- As We May Think by
Vannevar Bush - The Technical Evolution of Vannevar Bush’s Memex by
Belinda Barnet - Patterns for Personal Web Sites by
Mark Irons - You should have a website by
Nora Reed