[natnatenathan]

I have always written my own static blog generator, moving from PERL to Ruby and most recently Python. I find the other blog systems are too complicated for what I want. Plus, I think I like writing the generator more than writing actual posts.

[choobacker]

+1.

It's nice to have to a set of programs I moderately care about, so when I'm learning another language I can port them to it.

They're unimportant enough that I can comfortably experiment, but important enough that I want to complete the rewrite.

My "blog engine" is a nushell script that uses pandoc and built-in XML support to convert markdown into a site+feed.

[account42]

This is the best solution I think - you get to have things work just as you want like if you were manually writing the HTML but don't have to manually do the repetitive parts like keeping layouts and navigation synced.