Really like what you are going for here. I've actually been working on a similar system of a minimalist static site generator off and on for about a year. Looking forward to having a more in depth look at your approach.. and congrats for putting it out there, I've been letting my imposter syndrome keep me from publicly showing my system off. I really dig your templating system, I ended up going with Handlebars but I always planned on removing it at some point. Are you using grey matter for parsing the markdown metadata or did you create your own parser?