Hello, wat

Welcome to wat.

We built this place because we kept wanting one tool, and finding three. We wanted to write long, careful essays — and have them rendered with the kind of typography you'd expect from a book. We wanted to keep living documentation for our projects — without leaving the editor. And we wanted to jot down a sentence or a paragraph, the way you might into a journal, without first deciding whether it deserves a title.

Wat is a notebook engine. You can have many notebooks. Each one lives at its own URL. Each one is either a blog — a continuous stream of posts, short or long — or a set of docs — a tree of living pages.

“The first draft of anything is shit.” — said Hemingway, who would have liked Markdown.

That's the whole product, more or less. The rest is taste:

• A serif optimized for reading at length.
• A code stack tuned for the kind of post that ends with a benchmark.
• Tables, footnotes, task lists, and all the niceties of extended Markdown.
• Discord and Twitter previews that aren't ugly by default.

We made it in Luxembourg, on a small machine, in a small country, with a small team. We hope you write something good.