Danbert

I just saw a piece of paper I'd written that on. No idea why.

Before getting out of bed this morning I did a bit of vocab work for #:kia with Claude. I got to desk and started trying to sort out #:semem with Claude - turning first-pass material into running code. I'd only just started when the tokens ran out. Grr! So I moved on to :

Postcraft

#:postcraft is a static site renderer built as a #:transmissions application (it renders this blog). About a week ago I broke the version I had been using. Not surprising, it was incredibly hacky, just a placeholder until I'd figured out #:transmissions a bit more.

As I started rewriting that it made sense to make some of the changes to #:transmissions I've had on the list for a while. Mostly simplifications, like flattening all the new RDF terms I was using into a single namespace.

The site rendering does this :

  1. walk a given dir containing markdown files
  2. render each file into a minimal html content block
  3. template each content block into a complete HTML page
  4. gather the 5 most recent content blocks
  5. template those 5 blocks into a front page (and an Atom feed)

The DirWalker process does 1., emitting a message for each file it encounters.

The old version had a lot of app-specific processors, totally at odds with the intended philosophy of small reusable processors. At 2., for each file it stuffed the raw HTML into files under cache, then continued, saving the page HTML in its target dir. 4. was a horrid hack, somehow involving DirWalker accumulating the filenames in the message (I couldn't figure quite how I'd done it). 5. was a clunky script.

Now I intend to use Web as the Knowledgebase.

With Semantic Web technologies, the whole (read/write) Web can be considered a knowledgebase which can express structured information with Linked Data in the exact same space as typical Web pages and media. A SPARQL graph store can be considered a cache of a little data-oriented chunk of the Web, convenient when rapid operations in a particular scope are needed.

(I arrived at this handy intuition years back, just remembered, I'm overdue in restating it).

Danbert