# Writer's Block

Elixir command-line engine that generates a static HTML personal wiki from a directory of Markdown documents.

STUB. This software has no release or pre-release in four years, or its project site no longer shows it, so it is not part of the register, not counted and not indexed. It will be checked again.

Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/wb/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-23
Listed since: 2026-10-23

## Record

### Links

- repository: https://github.com/aerosol/wb
- docs: https://github.com/aerosol/wb/blob/develop/doc-food/docs/installation.md

### Identity

- status: stub
- maintainer: Adam Rutkowski
- maintainerType: individual
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2020
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: ssg
- hosting: static
- language: elixir
- runtime: beam
- runtimeMin: unknown
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: flat-file
- databases: unknown
- adminUi: unknown
- headlessApi: unknown
- templating: eex
- i18n: unknown

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: static, local
- renderingModes: static
- installMethod: mix escript.install github aerosol/wb

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: Apache-2.0

### Releases

- currentMajor: 0
- latestReleaseDate: 2022-11-27

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 38
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 1
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- status: https://mtod.org/wb/mtod-wb/index.html (read 2026-10-23)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/aerosol/wb (read 2026-10-23)
- urls: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aerosol/wb/develop/doc-food/docs/installation.md (read 2026-10-23)
- maintainer: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aerosol/wb/develop/mix.exs (read 2026-10-23)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/aerosol/wb (read 2026-10-23)
- category: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aerosol/wb/develop/doc-food/docs/usage.md (read 2026-10-23)
- runtime: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aerosol/wb/develop/mix.exs (read 2026-10-23)
- installMethod: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aerosol/wb/develop/doc-food/docs/installation.md (read 2026-10-23)
- installMethod: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aerosol/wb/develop/doc-food/docs/installation.md (read 2026-10-23)
- contentStore: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aerosol/wb/develop/doc-food/docs/usage.md (read 2026-10-23)
- runsAs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aerosol/wb/develop/doc-food/docs/usage.md (read 2026-10-23)
- runsAs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aerosol/wb/develop/doc-food/docs/usage.md (read 2026-10-23)
- renderingModes: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aerosol/wb/develop/doc-food/docs/usage.md (read 2026-10-23)
- license: https://api.github.com/repos/aerosol/wb (read 2026-10-23)
- licenseModel: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aerosol/wb/develop/LICENSE (read 2026-10-23)
- firstRelease: https://hex.pm/api/packages/wb (read 2026-10-23)
- currentMajor: https://api.github.com/repos/aerosol/wb/releases (read 2026-10-23)
- latestReleaseDate: https://api.github.com/repos/aerosol/wb/releases (read 2026-10-23)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/aerosol/wb (read 2026-10-23)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/aerosol/wb/contributors (read 2026-10-23)
- templating: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aerosol/wb/develop/doc-food/docs/features.md (read 2026-10-23)

## Notes

Writer's Block, run as the `wb` command, is an Elixir tool for a personal wiki. Its documents are Markdown files in a folder, and it generates the site as static HTML into a separate build root. It is installed with `mix escript.install` from the GitHub repository, or built as a Docker image, and the [installation page](https://github.com/aerosol/wb/blob/develop/doc-food/docs/installation.md) lists Elixir 1.11 or greater as the prerequisite.

## Worth knowing

The README points to mtod.org/wb/, which carries no software documentation, so the install and usage pages are the ones in the repository. The record is a stub until the project shows the software on a site of its own again.

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