Most static site generators defaults to MarkDown as a markup language. So I better learn it. There is a Markdown Cheatsheet available. Wikipedia:Markdown.

The wikicreole markup system looks almost like the markup that Mediawiki uses, which is nice. I have used mediawiki a lot, so this is one syntax that I am familiar with. Wikicreole exists as a plugin for Pelican as well Creole Reader.

Pelican works, but it seems a bit fragile. 'make html' works all the time, but 'make publish' followed by the necessary git commands doesn't always give the expected result. Sometimes only the text is published, and lacks the "theme", which creates a bad look.

2017-09-01: and it broke again today …

This is just the second blog post. The inspiration for doing this came from this article. Other options for static website generators are Jekyll written in Ruby, Hyde written in Python, Hexo written in Javascript (nodeJS), Hugo written in Go, Cactus written in Python and using Django, Lektor in Python …