diff --git a/users/sterni/blërg/README.md b/users/sterni/blërg/README.md
index 70c286efc..552543c71 100644
--- a/users/sterni/blërg/README.md
+++ b/users/sterni/blërg/README.md
@@ -5,13 +5,21 @@
 - [CBQN][] (other [BQN][] implementations may work, but are untested)
 - Marshall Lochbaum's [bqn-libs][] which blërg expects to find at the
   location the `BQN_LIBS` environment variable points to.
-- //users/sterni/mn2html
-- [mblaze(7)][mblaze]
 - [execline][]
 - POSIX `printf(1)` (e.g. from GNU coreutils)
+- `mail-notes` backend
+  - //users/sterni/mn2html
+  - [mblaze(7)][mblaze]
+- `git` backend
+  - [git][]
+  - [lowdown][] for Markdown support
+  - [pandoc][] for Org Mode support
 
 [mblaze]: https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze/
 [execline]: https://skarnet.org/software/execline/
 [BQN]: https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/
 [CBQN]: https://github.com/dzaima/cbqn
 [bqn-libs]: https://github.com/mlochbaum/bqn-libs/
+[lowdown]: https://kristaps.bsd.lv/lowdown/
+[pandoc]: https://pandoc.org/
+[git]: https://git-scm.com/
diff --git a/users/sterni/blërg/blërg.bqn b/users/sterni/blërg/blërg.bqn
index 593b3e29c..6b251cb75 100755
--- a/users/sterni/blërg/blërg.bqn
+++ b/users/sterni/blërg/blërg.bqn
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ LR ← Lines∘R
 GetEnv ← {R "importas"‿"env"‿𝕩‿"printf"‿"%s"‿"$env"}
 
 RelPath ← •wdpath⊸•file.At
+Ext ← '.'⊸(⊑∘1⊸↑∘/∘(=∧∊∘⊢)↑⊢)⌾⌽ •file.Name
 
 # 3p dependencies
 
@@ -79,27 +80,42 @@ MailNotesBackend ← {𝕊 config:
 
 # Git Backend
 
+converters ← ⍉>⟨
+# TODO(sterni): avoid cat
+⟨"html", ⋈"cat"⟩,
+⟨"md", "lowdown"‿"-T"‿"html"‿"--html-no-skiphtml"‿"--html-no-escapehtml"‿"--html-callout-mdn"⟩,
+# TODO(sterni): use emacs
+⟨"org", "pandoc"‿"-f"‿"org"‿"-t"‿"html5"⟩,
+⟩
+
+# TODO(sterni): don't assemble blocks in this ad hoc fashion
+# TODO(sterni): pipefail
+PipelineCmd ← {"pipeline"⋈⊸∾(' '⊸∾¨𝕨)∾""⋈⊸∾𝕩}
+
 GitBackend ← {𝕊 config:
   repo ← RelPath •file.At config j.ObjGet "repository"
   path ← ∾⟜'/' '/' StripRight config "." j._ObjGetDef "path"
 
   # We use zero separated fields when dealing with paths, so quoting is unnecessary
-  Git ← {R "git"‿"-c"‿"core.quotePath=false"‿"-C"‿repo∾𝕩}
-  rev ← Git "rev-parse"‿"HEAD"
+  GitCmd ← {"git"‿"-c"‿"core.quotePath=false"‿"-C"‿repo∾𝕩}
+  rev ← R GitCmd "rev-parse"‿"HEAD"
   # Use the author date of the latest commit on the file to establish the date
   # of the file. The author date is easier to arbitrarily change and survives
   # history rewrites. It could be interesting to ignore commits that touch
   # multiple files (especially treewide ones).
-  PathDate ← {ReadPosDec Git "log"‿"--date=unix"‿"--pretty=tformat:%ad"‿"-1"‿rev‿"--"‿𝕩}
+  PathDate ← {ReadPosDec R GitCmd "log"‿"--date=unix"‿"--pretty=tformat:%ad"‿"-1"‿rev‿"--"‿𝕩}
 
   Entries ⇐ {𝕤⋄
-    blobs ← ∘‿2⥊@ SplitChar Git "ls-tree"‿"-zr"‿"--format=%(path)%x00%(objectname)"‿rev‿path
+    blobs ← ∘‿2⥊@ SplitChar R GitCmd "ls-tree"‿"-zr"‿"--format=%(path)%x00%(objectname)"‿rev‿path
     {𝕊 p‿b:
       id ⇐ Slugify path DropPrefix p
       # TODO(sterni): extract from file if possible
       title ⇐ •file.Name p
       time ⇐ PathDate p
-      Render ⇐ {𝕤 ⋄ {"<pre>"∾𝕩∾"</pre>"} Git "cat-file"‿"blob"‿b}
+      Render ⇐ {𝕤
+        conv ← converters j.ObjGet Ext p
+        R (GitCmd "cat-file"‿"blob"‿b) PipelineCmd conv
+      }
     }˘blobs
   }
 }
diff --git a/users/sterni/blërg/default.nix b/users/sterni/blërg/default.nix
index 688253a0f..0dacf5e15 100644
--- a/users/sterni/blërg/default.nix
+++ b/users/sterni/blërg/default.nix
@@ -5,8 +5,10 @@ let
   runtimeDependencies = [
     depot.users.sterni.mn2html
     pkgs.mblaze
-    pkgs.execline # execline-cd, importas
+    pkgs.execline # execline-cd, importas, pipeline
     # coreutils   # for printf (assumed to be installed)
+    pkgs.pandoc
+    pkgs.lowdown
   ];
 
   # … and this