Builder prints entire blogs as physical booklets using a Knapsack problem + Google PageRank API pipeline to select essays within a word-count budget.
Key Takeaways
Selection is automated: Google Search API rank scores posts assuming Zipf-distributed quality; author-recommended posts get a baseline point to anchor the offset.
Word count is the Knapsack cost; a 20 euro / 150-page budget targets ~75k words per blog, roughly 41 Paul Graham essays.
Pandoc renders body text; Typst generates cover pages; headless browser converts interactive HTML plots to static PNGs for print.
LLM clustering was tried and abandoned as poor; manual chapter grouping was faster and better for all five blogs processed.
