arachne

Arachne is the wiki engine this website is built on

struct

The system is written in Deno. It renders static web pages from flat files written in custom Indental (database) and Runic (templating) formats. Data from Intra logs and time-tracker are also parsed

portal.page
  key : value
  intro
    & sample syntax
  ~ tags
    1 heading 1
    2 heading 2
    3 heading 3
    & paragraph
    # code block
    - ordered list
    = unordered list
    ; custom HTML block
    > term - definition
    % image | alt | caption
    " quote | author | source | link
    $ {?variable|title?} = #number# + {?x|x?}
  ~ inline elements
    & [abbreviation|meaning^]
    & [!text|ISO 639-1 code!]
    & [~database|query~]
    & [/time|timestamp/]
    & [+text|hyperlink+]
    & ["quote|source"]
    & [#inline code#]
    & ['citation']
    & [_key_]

Vercel hosts the site

stats

The wiki contains 189 files ⁽¹⁾ (13 MB): 1 rendered pages (588 B) and 163 media files (13 MB). Pages were generated from 7 tomes (82 kB) and 8 Intra logs (279 kB)

history

A glance at some of this site’s previous iterations:

a black rectangle with white squiggly lines — 2019: project “heartbeats”

a homepage screenshot — 2020: coloured box shadows