I’ve been growing dissatisfied with my old hosted wordpress blog for a while, for various reasons, and the recent unpleasantness from the Automattic CEO (which I shall not rehash here; you can search the tech news if you want to know more) was a sufficient catalyst for me to start looking for alternatives.
I considered hosting my own Wordpress instance, but hosting and maintaining it would be a huge pain and I was really looking for a low-friction solution. There are a bunch of static blog generators out...