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Slate was a Ruby-based static site generator for building beautiful, three-column API documentation. It was once used to host API docs for companies like NASA, Sony, Best Buy, Clearbit, Dwolla, Parrot Drones, WooCommerce, and Axidraw.
Slate was a Ruby-based static site generator for building beautiful, three-column API documentation. It was once used to host API docs for companies like NASA, Sony, Best Buy, Clearbit, Dwolla, Parrot Drones, WooCommerce, and Axidraw.Where can I still get the code now that the GitHub repo is archived?The creator kept a separate read-only archive of Slate's code on his own personal website, outside of GitHub.
The creator kept a separate read-only archive of Slate's code on his own personal website, outside of GitHub.Is this project still maintained?No. The repository is archived: its creator pulled it from GitHub in January 2026 in protest of Microsoft's contracts with ICE and the IDF, so it will receive no further updates here.
No. The repository is archived: its creator pulled it from GitHub in January 2026 in protest of Microsoft's contracts with ICE and the IDF, so it will receive no further updates here.Who actually used Slate for their API docs?Organizations including NASA, Sony, Best Buy, Clearbit, Dwolla, Parrot Drones, WooCommerce, and Axidraw used Slate to host their API documentation.
Organizations including NASA, Sony, Best Buy, Clearbit, Dwolla, Parrot Drones, WooCommerce, and Axidraw used Slate to host their API documentation.Why did the creator take Slate off GitHub?He removed it from GitHub in January 2026 specifically in protest of Microsoft's contracts with ICE and the IDF, as part of ongoing US protests and strikes at the time.
He removed it from GitHub in January 2026 specifically in protest of Microsoft's contracts with ICE and the IDF, as part of ongoing US protests and strikes at the time.Can I still read more about this decision?The creator says he wrote a longer explanation of the decision on his personal blog, alongside the read-only code archive he hosts there.
The creator says he wrote a longer explanation of the decision on his personal blog, alongside the read-only code archive he hosts there.Which topics is it in?api-documentation, static-site-generator, ruby, deprecated, documentation, markdown, api, tool, self-hosted, cli, developer-tools, windows
api-documentation, static-site-generator, ruby, deprecated, documentation, markdown, api, tool, self-hosted, cli, developer-tools, windows