What would be the minimum additional tools besides GNU Make and
Pandoc needed to make it easy to maintain my website?
blogit for generating JSON presentation of blog post and rendering
to the appropriate location of blog
pdtmpl for rendering
sitemapper for generating JSON sitemap files in easy directory
feeder for generating reallysimple feeds and RSS 2.0 feeds in each
directory
Improvements
a “-walker” option that would walk the file system looking for JSON
document to turn into Markdown then into HTML so that the blog is always
in a data format
use an in memory file system for temp files, this could speed up
processing and also avoid the messy issue of file permissions of the
content that gets buffered to disk and passed via “–template” and
“–metadata-file”.