[afarah1]

I do mostly the same, .md and pandoc, but also mo for templating:

https://github.com/tests-always-included/mo.

Took just a few minutes to setup. E.g. https://afarah.info/public/blog/awsv3/index.html.

Writing in Markdown with {{mustache}} templates for DRY is very satisfying, a simple bash script renders it. Looks good on my phone even.