I'm also using MD4C for my website with KaTeX for latex rendering and utterances for comments. Instead of C, I'm generating my site with Nim using Karax + Mummy and publishing to Github Pages with Cloudflare for HTTPS.

Here is the source code (it should be easy to fork for your own site): https://github.com/miguelmartin75/miguelmartin75.github.io

- To generate a page: https://github.com/miguelmartin75/miguelmartin75.github.io/b...

- See usage: https://github.com/miguelmartin75/miguelmartin75.github.io/b...

    - Install nim & run `nimble setup` in repo to install necessary packages

    - Run `nim init` to enable deployment/publishing the site (using git work trees)

    - Serving it locally before deploying is as easy as `nim dev`, see: https://github.com/miguelmartin75/miguelmartin75.github.io/blob/master/config.nims#L15-L16

    - Serving it locally with my private notes (710 files): `nim devpriv`, see: https://github.com/miguelmartin75/miguelmartin75.github.io/blob/master/config.nims#L12-L13

    - Generating the site: `nim gen`

    - To publish the site: `nim publish`

I use Obsidian to write notes and can put top-level YAML metadata on each page and retrieve it in my generator, see: https://github.com/miguelmartin75/miguelmartin75.github.io/b...

For the local development HTTP server (using Mummy), you can refresh the page to regenerate the markdown. Re-generating the page on file changes and refreshing the page with websockets is on my backlog.

Previously I was using GatsbyJS, but have had a lot of trouble with dependencies constantly updating, copying the setup to another computer and generally it was pretty slow to generate the site. Now I can generate my site in <0.1s - even if I include all my private notes (710 markdown files).