[softwaredoug]

I have used Jekyll forever. Now with Netlify.

I have no reason to recommend this other than its worked for me for 10+ years. It's perfectly fine. I am not even much of a Rubyist, it's 100% an accident of history.

I create/edit posts on Github directly, in master. They publish when they get a timestamp attached to the markdown file. Even when published, I only share around to a few friends for feedback and typos before sharing more widely.

As someone who used to tweak his Jekyll installation endlessly, I find obsession with tweaking/exploring/creating blogging platforms a sort of procrastination to avoid the actual blogging part ;)