Sun, 24 Nov 2024 22:35:00 UTC
took me forever to get around to it but i finally wrote a scrappy little static site generator that also makes an rss feed! been meaning to do this for a good while now. on another site i maintain i have a sad little rss feed for short updates that i write by hand and the main thing that taught me is that i really didnt want to do that here too. i was already writing all the html for the posts and that was tedious enough. i dont have to do that anymore either though! i feed my little script a folder full of markdown files and it spits out the html i would have written anyway. it doesnt support anything special other than bulleted lists right now and requires a quite strict format for the header but its all i really need. honestly i dont even know if i want to give it support for bold and italics. not that i dont use them ever, i just find it perfectly equivalent to surround the text with asterisks and parse the markdown with my brain. idk, probably just me.
the script can be found on my codeberg if you have any interest in it. https://codeberg.org/clover/ssg