For my own blogging needs, I chose an even more pragmatic alternative to markdown - email!
Well, email is a actually a single file CMS which contains html, plaintext, attachments/images, and metadata like when the email was sent and the subject line,
With all this, it turns out you can create pretty nice looking webpages without having to futz around with md->html conversions.
The huge advantage is that since I know gmail, whenever I have an idea for a blog post, I can go from idea to published in minutes. The biggest time suck tends to be finding stock photos for the post.
As far as tech stack goes, it’s all serverless. I use SES to handle inbound emails and the excellent nodemailer package to parse .eml files.
Well, email is a actually a single file CMS which contains html, plaintext, attachments/images, and metadata like when the email was sent and the subject line,
With all this, it turns out you can create pretty nice looking webpages without having to futz around with md->html conversions.
The huge advantage is that since I know gmail, whenever I have an idea for a blog post, I can go from idea to published in minutes. The biggest time suck tends to be finding stock photos for the post.
As far as tech stack goes, it’s all serverless. I use SES to handle inbound emails and the excellent nodemailer package to parse .eml files.