[fizzychicken]

This is only slightly similar, but Ive played around with hexo to acheive a HTML only driven blog based on github hosted markdown files. Once setup and secured it is pretty much just me writing and publishing text files. https://hexo.io/ It seems to be very popular in Japan as most guides I read were google-translated Japanese blogs.

[h1d]

I just took a look around for self hosted blogs and found PostLeaf pretty slick and only has what is required without UI bloat.