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Hugo is good, but you will need some technical expertise to customize it, unless you use a stock theme/template. GitHub pages is also a great way to get starte

Hugo is good, but you will need some technical expertise to customize it, unless you use a stock theme/template. GitHub pages is also a great way to get started quickly - Markdown is easy to learn and there are several cheat sheets out there. What I did in the end is created my own very simple site generator (calling it that is probably being over generous) - it lacks many features of a full-blown generator like Hugo, but it suits me down to the ground. I then host (for free) on GitHub and publish also to neocities.org (for free). See my HN profile for link to website - from there you can pick up the source code if you're interested. Good luck with your blogging!

artemis73 9y ago
Hugo seems okay to me. Not that complicated so far. Yeah, it's a bit opinionated which kinda irks me sometimes coming from something like Jinja templating. Do you have your SSG up somewhere on GitHub? I'd like to give it a look. Seems to be a cool idea. Thank you for telling me about neocities. Wasn't aware of that!
- zapperdapper 9y ago
  Check my HN profile. From there you can find my GitHub (see the repo Website-Test that has everything), feel free to use my code if you so wish! Oh I really like neocities. You can sign up for pro membership and have custom domains and so on but I've not needed that so far - I may do at some point though. All the best!