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+local md = [[
+hey there!  you might be noticing that things look a little... different around here. 
+that's because i've refactored this site to use my custom static site generator, [argent].
+i used to use jekyll, but i wanted to be able to do more *direct programming* in building my
+pages, and i wanted to be able to do that in lua. i tried looking at some of the other 
+static site generators out there using lua (and python too) but so many of them rely on
+packages that no longer exist, or language features from seven versions ago, or similar
+types of problems, that i wanted to have a site generator that *just works*.
+
+so i wrote one! i called it argent because (a) it sounds kinda cool and (b) argent, as a
+silver-white color, is used in heraldry to represent the moon, and i like the oblique reference
+to lua. it relies on posix filesystem calls (sorry windows users, you'll need msys or something
+to run it) but otherwise is totally standalone -- it packages its own lua interpreter, so language
+version (ideally) will never change.
+
+[argent]: /git/argent
+]]
+
+return {
+   title = 'refactor: argent',
+   date = '2022-01-13',
+   layout = 'blog',
+   markdown = md,
+}