What's Carcajou?
Carcajou (kahr-kuh-joo) is a little python project I'm spinning up that makes this website possible. It takes my raw markdown, injects it into html templates, and even makes API calls to get all this stuff on the web.
Current Status
It lives! Carcajou currently can take my markdown files and with a click of a button get it on the web.
Future Goals
- Carcajou currently rebuilds each page every time. As my site gets bigger that probably won't be sustainable. I need to give it some smarts to only rebuild the sites that need it.
- Carcajou needs some ability to build index style pages automatically. That's the part of a static site that I dread the most, and certainly something I don't wanna do by hand.
- Carcajou is held together with some tape and a wish. It certainly needs some more testing and better documentation.
Why not just use a different static site generator?
Mostly because I wanted to build up my skills and really understand what was happening. I do recommend Pelican or Jekyll for those who want to do something similar without all the repeat work. I also wanted something that would work well with all my idiosyncrasies, and sometimes the best way to do that is to just do it yourself.
Why the name?
I'm inspired by a long history of naming python projects after animals. Carcajou is a French Canadian name for wolverines that many sources say has Algonquian origin. Given that my nickname on here is taken from the Genus name for wolverines, it felt really fitting to call my website helper a wolverine too.