[hejcloud]

Gosh this is a horrible spiral I've been going through as well. My personal experience is:

1) WP: You start with promising yourself to never touch any PHP and will still end up in this mess. I always regretted setting up WP few days/weeks after.

2) Gatsby/Next: I'm saying this as one of those frontend hipsters: For a personal blog, just don't. The npm ecosystem imho got so messy that it always added more pain to actually start writing.

3) Hugo: just do it. It's small, fast, nice and once you wrapped your head around their taxonomy and theme model, it's really nice and easy to extend and fun to actually blog.

My 2 cents. Your mileage may vary.

[twelve40]

jeez why not just use one of the million services.. php... npm... do you also start your own fire, like with a tinder box, to cook some food?