My journey has been from jekyll to Hugo to plain HTML. A blog post can be mostly <h1>, <p>, <b>, and <img> tags. I (mostly) use internal CSS so each post is se

My journey has been from jekyll to Hugo to plain HTML. A blog post can be mostly <h1>, <p>, <b>, and <img> tags. I (mostly) use internal CSS so each post is self contained. Creating a new post is just a copy/paste of the last one and changing the words. If I wanted a fancy style, I could export one from any template-based theme but I use something minimal. Keeping it simple helps me focus on writing instead of plug-in management and endless tweaking of settings. In theory I'll run into issues if I want to restyle the entire blog, but I'm happy to preserve old posts as-is. If I wanted to edit a header or footer I could use bulk search/replace. Occasionally I've wanted to add some extra interactivity or a one-off style. This is straightforward in HTML (assuming you know it) versus a generator that can get in your way with too many layers of abstraction. https://alexsci.com/blog/hsts-adoption/ https://alexsci.com/blog/hsts-adoption/