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About This Site

This site is basically a big shell script! It uses Markdown, HTML, and CSS, as well as Python, R, and C.

Source Code

• oil/doctools uses CommonMark to convert Markdown to HTML. It then applies several HTML processors in a pipeline to produce the final page.
  • Syntax highlighting is done with Pygments and our own regex-based lexers.
  • Almost everything is open source, but blog.py isn't for historical reasons.
• wwz.py is a FastCGI script that serves static content directly out of zip files. For example, the entire /release/0.4.0/test/wild.wwz/ tree, with tens of thousands of files, is a single file on the server.

Other Tools

• Make for incremental builds of HTML, and incremental log analysis.
  • inotify-tools for quick reloading of HTML.
• GNU R for log analysis.
• GNU Bash to glue everything together.
• git to store both the source code and generated HTML.
• rsync to deploy static HTML.