DailyWiki is a simple page that simply links 30 random Wikipedia articles each day, refreshing at midnight. I’ve always been a fan of random Wikipedia browsing, so this is my attempt to streamline that process a tiny bit.

DailyWiki Light Theme

DailyWiki Dark Theme

It’s a very basic Sinatra application. Once a day I refresh a Redis cache of 30 wikipedia articles, and render them on the page. This keeps the article list in sync for everyone using the website. This was my first time using Sinatra, and I really appreciated how simple and clean it can be compared to writing Rails code. I’ll definitely be using it again in the future for these simple lightweight projects that require a server.

I’m not sure where else I’ll take this project, but it was fun to throw together!