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tl;dr - Use Dillinger and paste the formatted content directly to blogger

Recently, I tried many techinques, which will allow me to write blogs in markdown. The available choice in broad categories are,

First is the obvious choice if you need total control over your blog, but I didn't want to get into too much trouble just to blog because it involes hosting the generated static html pages on your own - not to mention the trouble of enabling comments. I like the second solution from and went the distance to even move my blog to svbtle. It's pretty simple and straightforward, but after doing a post or two I realized the lack of comments is a showstopper. I agree it's good for posts intended for "read only" use, but usually it's not the case for me.

This is when I started investigating on the third option and thought StackEdit to be a nice solution as it'll allow posting to blogger directly. However, it doesn't support syntax highlighting for code blocks - bummer!

Then came the "aha!" moment. I've been using Dillinger to edit markdown regularly as it's very simple and gives you instant formatted output. I thought why not just copy the formatted content and paste it in the blog post - duh. No surprises - it worked like a charm. Dillinger beatifully formats everything including syntax highligting for code/scripts. Also, it allows you to link with either Dropbox or Github where I use Github.

All in all, I found Dillinger to be the easiest solution and if you like to see a formatted post see my first post with it.