Webs(C)ite

is a static site generator written in C. It was built out of frustration with the complexity of popular alternatives and as an excuse to gain more familiarity with C. It does nothing more than generate an index page populated with blog posts.

It just packages content into a html and body tag, adds some metadata and builds a single atom feed from these.

There are no tags, no themes, no plugins. In the spirit of HTML Energy, posts are written in HTML directly.

Webscite is intended to be an experiment of what software looks like when the user themselves is expected to be malleable — just as a starting point to be personalized as much as needed.

My friend Cristóbal wrote a beautiful entry titled "Against Malleable Software" in the Ink & Switch forums that could easily read as the manifesto of the philosophy behind what I tried to come up with here. I linked to it below.