Well, that's exactly what most static site generators would do. I wanted to avoid exactly that. Because, then you will write your markdown and compile it to htm

Well, that's exactly what most static site generators would do. I wanted to avoid exactly that. Because, then you will write your markdown and compile it to html. The moment that you do that, there are two representation of the same data. And if you want to host it on github or somewhere, you will be checking the html files too. What if you could just do the whole site without compiling to HTML? What if you could just check in the md file, and it would just work? That's where I was coming from when I hacked this together. I'm certainly not saying it's a better way of doing this, I'm just saying I love the simplicity that something like this would bring in when I want to host a simple static site.