diff --git a/blog b/blog
index 865a2f7..a909feb 160000
--- a/blog
+++ b/blog
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 865a2f7ca90d28bec65f591dc54ee30e2ef24bc7
+Subproject commit a909feba613d3a2e4cdc027c9e11c390f924a799
diff --git a/makefile b/makefile
index a95139e..8841097 100644
--- a/makefile
+++ b/makefile
@@ -10,7 +10,9 @@ OUT_DIR			= site
 
 ROOT_DIR		= $(SRC_DIR)/root
 
-BLOG_SRC_DIR	= blog/blogs
+BLOG_BASE_DIR	= blog/
+BLOG_BUILD_DIR	= $(BLOG_BASE_DIR)out/html/
+BLOG_SRC_DIR	= $(BLOG_BASE_DIR)blogs
 BLOG_OUT_DIR	= $(OUT_DIR)/blog
 BLOG_TMP_DIR	= .blogtmp
 
@@ -65,8 +67,9 @@ $(BLOG_OUT_DIR)/%.jpg: $(BLOG_SRC_DIR)/%.jpg
 
 blog: $(BLOG_TARGETS) $(BLOG_PNG_TARGETS) $(BLOG_JPG_TARGETS) $(BLOG_RSS) | $(BLOG_TMP_DIR)
 
-$(BLOG_RSS): $(BLOG_PAGES)
-	pipenv run python scripts/mkblogrss.py $(BLOG_PAGES) > $@
+$(BLOG_RSS):
+	make --directory $(BLOG_BASE_DIR) html
+	cp $(BLOG_BUILD_DIR)/index.xml $@
 
 $(BLOG_INDEX_LINKS): $(BLOG_TARGETS) | $(BLOG_TMP_DIR)
 	pipenv run python scripts/mkblogindex.py $(BLOG_TARGETS) > $@
diff --git a/scripts/mkblogrss.py b/scripts/mkblogrss.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 4922fe5..0000000
--- a/scripts/mkblogrss.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,76 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python3
-
-import markdown
-import pathlib
-import sys
-import re
-
-def print_usage():
-    print("\nusage: python mkblogrss.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:]
-
-# header and footer to enclose feed items
-header = """<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
-<rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0">
-<channel>
-    <title>ktyl.dev</title>
-    <link>https://ktyl.dev/blog/index.html</link>
-    <description>mostly computer stuff!</description>
-    <atom:link href="https://ktyl.dev/blog/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/>
-    """
-footer = "</channel></rss>"
-
-# regex patterns
-title_pattern = re.compile("<h1>(.+)</h1>")
-path_pattern = re.compile("(.+)\/(\d{4})\/(\d{1,2})\/(\d{1,2})\/(.+).md")
-
-def make_item(path):
-    str = "<item>\n"
-
-    # get the HTML version of the file
-    text = ""
-    with open(path) as f:
-        text = f.read()
-    html = markdown.markdown(text, extensions=["fenced_code"])
-
-    # title
-    title = ""
-    m = title_pattern.match(html)
-    title = m.group(1)
-    str += f"<title>{title}</title>\n"
-
-    # link
-    url = "/".join(pathlib.Path(path).parts[2:])
-    url = url.replace(".md", ".html")
-    link = f"https://ktyl.dev/blog/{url}"
-    str += f"<link>{link}</link>\n"
-
-    # content
-    description = html
-    description = re.sub('<', '&lt;', description)
-    description = re.sub('>', '&gt;', description)
-    str += f"<description>{description}</description>\n"
-
-    # pub date
-    date = re.sub(path_pattern, r'\2-\3-\4', path)
-    str += f"<pubDate>{date}</pubDate>\n"
-
-    str += "</item>"
-
-    return str
-
-# print everything!
-print(header)
-for p in posts:
-    print(make_item(p))
-print(footer)
-