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		deaddabe on Oct 14, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why I built my own static site generator What $(BUILDER) are you using? Could be GNU m4 (been there, done that) or something more (or less?) evolved.

cozzyd on Oct 14, 2021 [–]

Nothing fancy, just a python script that parses each page's "header" (a set of '='-delimited KVPs), interprets the rest as the main content, and then does some text substitution in the template (in practice, I only have a KVP for the page title that's used in the template).

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