diff --git a/build/index.py b/build/index.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..febbc86
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build/index.py
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+import sys
+import re
+
+# we expect the arguments to be filepaths to each blog post
+
+def print_usage():
+    print("\nusage: python mkblogindex.py POSTS\n")
+    print("\n")
+    print("\t\tPOSTS\tfilepaths of blog posts")
+
+# check args for at least one file path
+if len(sys.argv) < 2:
+    print_usage()
+    sys.exit(1)
+
+# posts are arguments from index 1 onwards
+posts = sys.argv[1:]
+
+dir_pattern = re.compile("(.+)/(blog\/.+\.html)")
+path_pattern = re.compile("(.+)\/(\d{4})\/(\d{1,2})\/(\d{1,2})\/(.+).html")
+title_pattern = re.compile("<h1>(.+)</h1>")
+
+# filter posts to just those with a date in them
+posts = [p for p in posts if path_pattern.match(p)]
+posts.reverse()
+
+links = []
+
+# for each file we want to output an <a> tag with a relative href to the site root
+for path in posts:
+    m = re.match(path_pattern, path)
+    year = m.group(2)
+    month = m.group(3).rjust(2, '0')
+    day = m.group(4).rjust(2, '0')
+
+    date = f'<span class="post-date">{year}-{month}-{day}</span>'
+
+    title = ""
+    with open(path) as f:
+        for line in f:
+            if title_pattern.match(line):
+                title = re.sub(title_pattern, r'<span class="post-title">\1</span>', line).strip()
+                break
+
+    # clean leading directories to get the relative path we'll use for the link
+    url = re.sub(dir_pattern, r"\2", path)
+
+    item = (date, f'<li><a href="{url}">{date}{title}</a></li>')
+    links.append(item)
+
+# make sure we're properly ordered in reverse date order lol
+links = sorted(links, key=lambda x: x[0])
+links.reverse()
+
+for l in links:
+    print(l[1])
+
diff --git a/makefile b/makefile
index 9abe944..306d8f4 100644
--- a/makefile
+++ b/makefile
@@ -3,26 +3,39 @@ OUT_DIR		= out/
 HTML_DIR 	= $(OUT_DIR)html
 GEMINI_DIR	= $(OUT_DIR)gemini
 
-MAKE_GEMINI	= build/markdown2gemini.py
-MAKE_HTML 	= build/markdown2html.py
-MAKE_RSS	= build/rss.py
+MAKE_GEMINI		= build/markdown2gemini.py
+MAKE_HTML 		= build/markdown2html.py
+MAKE_RSS		= build/rss.py
+MAKE_HTML_INDEX	= build/index.py
 
 PAGES = $(shell find $(SRC_DIR) -wholename "$(BLOG_SRC_DIR)*.md")
 
 HTML_TARGETS 	= $(PAGES:$(SRC_DIR)/%.md=$(HTML_DIR)/%.html)
 HTML_RSS		= $(HTML_DIR)/index.xml
+HTML_INDEX		= $(HTML_DIR)/index.html
+
 GEMINI_TARGETS	= $(PAGES:$(SRC_DIR)/%.md=$(GEMINI_DIR)/%.gmi)
 
 _dummy := $(shell mkdir -p $(HTML_DIR) $(GEMINI_DIR))
 
 $(HTML_DIR)/%.html: $(SRC_DIR)/%.md
-	python $(MAKE_HTML) $< $@
+	pipenv run python $(MAKE_HTML) $< $@
 
 $(HTML_RSS): $(PAGES)
 	pipenv run python $(MAKE_RSS) $(PAGES) > $@
 
-html: $(HTML_TARGETS) $(HTML_RSS)
-	echo $(HTML_TARGETS)
+$(HTML_INDEX): $(HTML_TARGETS)
+	pipenv run python $(MAKE_HTML_INDEX) $(HTML_TARGETS) > $@
+
+$(HTML_DIR)/%.png: $(SRC_DIR)/%.png
+	mkdir -p $(shell dirname $@)
+	cp $< $@
+
+$(HTML_DIR)/%.jpg: $(SRC_DIR)/%.jpg
+	mkdir -p $(shell dirname $@)
+	cp $< $@
+
+html: $(HTML_TARGETS) $(HTML_RSS) $(HTML_INDEX) $(IMAGE_TARGETS)
 
 gemini: