https://moonlab.org/ 2026-08-10T00:00:00Z https://moonlab.org/posts/2026/anchor/ 2026-08-10T00:00:00Z Chris Mecca

<p>Moonlab needed a way to turn a directory of AsciiDoc files into a website.</p> <p>There are already more static site generators than anyone needs. I wrote another one anyway.</p> <p>It's called <a href="https://github.com/chrismecca/anchor">anchor</a>. It's written in Common Lisp, it builds this site, and it has a small job: read AsciiDoc documents and write a directory of static files.</p> <p>The short reason is that I wanted less than most static site generators give me. I did not want a database, a theme system, a template language, an asset pipeline, or a deployment system. I wanted the source tree to look like the site, and I wanted the content to contain the facts about itself.</p> <p>Anchor does that. Most of the interesting parts follow from those two choices.</p>