arachne
Arachne 1 is the generator that renders this site.
struct
Arachne parses files written in custom Indental (database) and Runic (templating) formats and renders static web pages. Additional data is derived from my time-tracker and Intra databases. The site is then hosted on Vercel.
page
.key: value
.body
value
; block elements
~h1 heading 1
~h2 heading 2
~p paragraph
~code code block
~ol ordered list
~ul unordered list
~img image | caption
~html custom HTML block
~quote quote | author | source | link
~math {?var | title?} = #number# + {?x | x?}
; inline elements
~p [!text | ISO 639-1!]
~p [/time | timestamp/]
~p ["quote | source"]
~p [^abbr | meaning^]
~p [+text | link+]
~p [#inline code#]
~p [?db.query?]
~p ['citation']
~p [_key_]
build
- Data from Intra and Log are parsed and summarised into JSON files
- The
.tomefiles are parsed, their contents converted to HTML - Log data is injected into project pages
- The final web pages are generated
stats
The wiki contains 647 files 2 (33.94 MB): 503 media files (33.02 MB) and 109 pages (571.87 kB) generated from 23 tomes (213.46 kB) and 2 Intra summaries (117.25 kB).
efficiency
Efficiency (267.90 %) here is the ratio of input (tomes) to output (web pages). A 1:1 ratio would mean I might as well just manually type out HTML. The dream is a self-documenting wiki that requires minimal to no input.
Do more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing.
— R. Buckminster Fuller, Nine Chains to the Moon
history
Here’s a glance at some of this site’s previous iterations. I never can seem to settle. I’m currently happy with the latest design (the one you’re interacting with now), but I’ll probably redesign it again later.
