The way it works now

You create new notes with rake new. A card will be created with a timestamp and a CUID for a filename.

Plan 9 mk is used to compile each card to a text/html and text/gemini representation. This representation is then uploaded to respective web servers with mk deploy.

The way it will eventually work

A single Nim or Janet application that processes the files instead.

Currently site generation is very Unix-like but also very slow. It is slow because a Ruby interpreter is spun up twice for each card. When all the files are processed by a single worker set up one time then generation is very fast.

The move from Ruby to Janet is mostly to do with unifying around Nim and Lisp.