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by lelanthran 325 days ago
> I host my blog using plain HTML and I have a compile step - a Python script that converts markdown to HTML, which minimizes the energy I spend on... wrapping everything in HTML tags?

Same, except I skipped Python and went with bash (https://gist.github.com/lelanthran/2634fc2508c93a437ba5ca511... if you're curious).

If I had to do it again, I'd go with Python, but because it started off as a small 5 line shell script I thought "Why bother with Python?".