Twenty-Four Years Of Wiki Engines

Yesterday morning I switched this site to its fourth major engine, a little over twenty years after sketching out the core idea behind it. The new generator is called sashimi, is written in Go, and runs almost entirely inside GitHub Actions–which is mildly amusing because the first Sashimi, in 2006, was also meant to batch-render this same filesystem tree using dependency tracking. Reusing the name is… confusing, but it fits my overall theme, and the underlying concepts have held up rather well. Always Has Been… a Wiki The site has always been a Wiki disguised as a blog, and I’ve been fortunate enough that its content has outlived every engine underneath it. With this post, there are now 9,287 source pages: 6,640 in Markdown (after a ruthless campaign of LLM-assisted format conversion that converted around 3,000 while preserving the content verbatim) and 2,647 older files still containing a mix of Textile, raw HTML and assorted historical quirks, with images and other attachments…