> I want to build something in which I have total control It is really trivial to build your own for a simple blog site. I like this approach as the toolchain

> I want to build something in which I have total control It is really trivial to build your own for a simple blog site. I like this approach as the toolchain develops alongside the site! Jinja2 templates, simple Python build script. That way you can write your content in whatever format you like! To deploy just use a bash script. On Github pages you can just git push of course.