Render reddit markdown, poll tildes better, add utils

apiserver/utils.py

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+import logging
+logging.basicConfig(
+        format='%(asctime)s - %(name)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s',
+        level=logging.DEBUG)
+
+import commonmark
+import random
+import string
+
+def gen_rand_id():
+    return ''.join(random.choice(string.ascii_uppercase) for _ in range(4))
+
+def render_md(md):
+    if md:
+        return commonmark.commonmark(md)
+    else:
+        return ''