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Glancing at the Gemfile, it's a Jekyll system. That's a Ruby package that does all the markdown to markup conversion.

This seems like relevant documentation: https://www.netlify.com/blog/2020/04/02/a-step-by-step-guide...

Ah thanks.

You know, it seems easier to just write the thing for something so simple... otherwise we have to now keep track of ruby and gems and such. I mean, it is one more thing for a simple blog, right?

If you want to quickly start a blog, online, with feeds and a feedreader built-in, while also quickly creating a nice style for the thing, I can shamelessly recommend taking a look at https://www.heyhomepage.com

The live sample sites don’t seem to work, FYI

Thanks, good catch. I updated the urls, so now the live sample sites do work.

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