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+# SCHLooP
+> **S**hittily **C**reates **H**ypertext that **L**ooks c**oo**l and **P**retty
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+This is a work-in-progress static-site generator that I'm
+going to use for my tilde public_html and public_gemini sites.
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+The rough plan is that it takes in markdown with some sort of
+custom templating language thingy and generates HTML and GMI files
+based on the templated content. I don't really know Rust and also
+this is just a small hackish personal project so expect the code
+quality to be kinda bad. - Del
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