Ideal may be a bit strong, but I'll assume it's ideal for Colin (author.) Learning is a big part of it, but so is familiarity. I just started the same type of

Ideal may be a bit strong, but I'll assume it's ideal for Colin (author.) Learning is a big part of it, but so is familiarity. I just started the same type of project: a personal website with a homegrown framework that makes everything easier. It was hard! Picking these technologies with no constraints and imperfect knowledge is tricky. Ultimately, I went with tools I wanted to learn more about, but that I was pretty confident would get me to a static site. This ended up being webpack + loaders/plugins (some homegrown). Plus I'm writing content in Google Docs and exporting it to HTML after being inspired by the wave of Google Docs articles on HN. Like Colin, I eventually want to put animations or data transformations on there. Fun process.