[bananicorn]

To add to that - if you prefer writing the body of the post itself in markdown, and write in VIM, here's a little snippet that might help:

:%!markdown_py

where markdown_py is your markdown-to-html tool of choice. This will take the whole buffer and turn it into HTML; Otherwise, just select what you want transformed in visual mode, press : and go use it like this:

:'<,'>!markdown_py

Just felt the need to share - any command line utility can be used in VIM :)

(Emacs, VSCode and other editor-using people feel free to chime in, I'm sure there's lots of cool approaches to this)