[brennen]

While echoing the "pick a static site generator" advice in the rest of the thread, my actual personal favorite is still:

Write your own!

That's what I did somewhere around 2000 or 2001, some years before I could program my way out of a wet paper bag or had a technical career. I'll probably still be using a variant of the same system[0] long after I have fully obsolesced and retired to the proverbial van down by the river to wait quietly for death.

A simple toolchain that you understand and can maintain in its entirety turns out to be very useful for a long-term writing project, and blogging occupies a sweet spot where you can leverage common tools and libraries (for tasks like templating, lightweight markup, and publishing) without sacrificing much of your understanding of the system as a whole. You may not need much more than some blobs of Markdown and a Makefile.

[0]: https://github.com/brennen/wrt

[bananicorn]

I can only second that - you'll learn so much on the way, though it's easy to get lost in the details, if you're doing most of the work yourself.

Just start with something dead simple and then build from that - you might make horrible design mistakes, but hey, it's just for fun after all, and it's one hell of a learning process.

[pleasecalllater]

quite nice