# mbutterick/pollen

book-publishing system [mirror of main repo at https://gitlab.com/mbutterick/pollen]

Repository: https://github.com/mbutterick/pollen
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/pollen
Homepage: https://gitlab.com/mbutterick/pollen
Language: Racket
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: racket
Archived: true
Last push: 2022-07-22T22:27:23+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4780, "days_push": 1503, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1205, forks 63 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:59.222237+00:00)

## What it is
Pollen is a book-publishing system written in Racket that treats documents as programs, letting authors embed a full programming language within their text. It supports Markdown authoring, free-form markup, and multi-output publishing for web-based books.

## Use cases
- publish web-based books with programmable documents
- use Racket as a text preprocessor for CSS and other assets
- author content in Markdown with embedded code
- generate multiple output formats from one source
- build documentation sites with custom markup

## When to choose
- you want documents to be programmable with a full language
- you publish long-form web books and care about typography
- you already know or like Racket

## When to avoid
- you want a conventional static site generator with a large plugin ecosystem
- you prefer not to learn Racket or Lisp syntax
- you need a turnkey blogging platform

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: stable
- function: static-site-generator, templating, markdown
- domain: web-development, documentation, programming-languages
- platform: cross-platform, cli
- tags: book-publishing, programmable-documents, typography, racket-language, text-preprocessing, preprocessor, publishing, racket

## Member repositories
- mbutterick/pollen (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:59.222237+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:19:36.216133+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/mbutterick/pollen (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:59.222237+00:00, sha 47f29ecaf637)
  - homepage: https://gitlab.com/mbutterick/pollen (fetched 2026-08-29T12:27:07.850307+00:00, sha bedd7559524f)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.