diff --git a/blog b/blog
index a909feb..ba65dda 160000
--- a/blog
+++ b/blog
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit a909feba613d3a2e4cdc027c9e11c390f924a799
+Subproject commit ba65dda1e78a8b1c5120dce6284fd0230642b126
diff --git a/makefile b/makefile
index 8841097..4454701 100644
--- a/makefile
+++ b/makefile
@@ -72,7 +72,8 @@ $(BLOG_RSS):
 	cp $(BLOG_BUILD_DIR)/index.xml $@
 
 $(BLOG_INDEX_LINKS): $(BLOG_TARGETS) | $(BLOG_TMP_DIR)
-	pipenv run python scripts/mkblogindex.py $(BLOG_TARGETS) > $@
+	make --directory $(BLOG_BASE_DIR) html
+	cp $(BLOG_BUILD_DIR)/index.html $@
 
 $(BLOG_OUT_DIR)/%.html: $(BLOG_OUT_DIR)/%.html.tmp $(HTML_INCLUDES) $(CSS_TARGETS)
 	python ppp/ppp.py $< $(HTML_INCLUDES) > $@
diff --git a/scripts/mkblogindex.py b/scripts/mkblogindex.py
deleted file mode 100644
index febbc86..0000000
--- a/scripts/mkblogindex.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,59 +0,0 @@
-#!/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])
-