dispatches from the margins

another lotek post

2026-07-05

I’ve been hacking away on lotek for about two weeks now, and it’s sort of become a new compulsion.

Lotek is a static site generator that I created. It’s what’s creating this site from markdown that I’ve been writing on my laptop. I just type up my posts, and run the command lotek build, and then it creates an output directory I can scp to any static webserver out there.

It’s grown somewhat, but not as much as you might expect. It’s definitely become more refined.

brad@semitone: ~/src/lotek/lotek main
$ for x in `find . -name \*.py`; do /bin/cat $x; done | wc -l
1040

It’s only about 1000 lines of python, and only three dependencies. That feels pretty lightweight. I’ll keep working on it, but 0.4.3 is probably where I’m going to consider it ‘live’. I’ve put it on lotek.run where you can read about it and install it if you care to. The source is available on github and you can get it on pip too.