Yesterday I took a step forward on this wiki-to-web journey and today I’m going to take a half step back. My initial impulse was to get Nikola to process the wiki and build a web site from a subset of its many pages, but the wiki is not a pretty picture — it’s a sprawling spaghetti mess that more closely resembles a pulsing, flashing Rorschach animation rendered by my short attention span.
The plan is to deploy this site to a robust HTML-only server, which will keep costs down and security high, since there won’t be any programmatic interfaces on the site itself that can be hacked. My deployment engine of choice is simple: I’ll be using git push. But before I sign up for a hosting account and start pushing my brains out the door on an automated basis, I wanted to test that procedure on a smaller scale, here in the lab.
I’ve mentioned that this will be my primary (and possibly only) presence on the web. But if it’s going to support all the different things I want to do, it’ll have to be pretty powerful. After implementing a basic “everything” feed, I sat down and sketched out what a more nuanced system might look like.