For a long while I've wanted to host this blog rather than utilize a service like Google's blogger. My biggest hesitation was blogging software tends to be a common means of getting pwned. I could write straight HTML, but then the content is mingled with the markup - it feels dirty. FrontPage you say? Well, that's just not cool enough.

Enter Acrylamid, a simple, but powerful means of generating a static website. Out of the box, it supports:

• Markdown
• Jinja2 templating
• Code high­light­ing with Pygments

To convert the contents of the old blog, I downloaded it using Google Takeout. Through a com­bi­na­tion of xpath, html2text, and some python hackery, I converted the …continue.