Ask HN: Best static site generator for non-designer?

I'd like to take a shot at creating my own portfolio page using a static site generator. However, all of my experience is working in languages like Go/Python with little to no experience in frontend design. But, at the same time, I don't mind learning something new!

The problem is I have no design skills and very little motivation to spend an excessive amount of time learning things like CSS. Is there a modern equivalent of pretty Lego blocks that I can use to put together something that might look nice?

I use MakeDocs with Material theme as most of my websites are for documentation. It all depends on what sort of website you want and for what audience. Go to the static website generator sites, look at how you install it, how to specify a theme, and how you tweek it, what themes there are and pick one. As most website generators use Markdown its relatively easy to switch from one generator to another if necessary.

you can use hugo if you are familiar with golang. you don't have to learn css, you can use some stock theme and stick to it. It does have a bit of learning curve though.

For my tiliaradix.com [0] I use Hugo [1] with the mini theme [2]. The domain is mine and points to a github pages repo, so I get HTTPS with it too.

I think the theme is pretty clean and lean and is kinda enough for me that also don't want to mess around with css and styling. And the blog is something basically no-one would find or read unless they are getting involved with me as freelancer (embedded wireless).

[0][https://tiliaradix.com/] [1][https://gohugo.io/] [2][https://github.com/nodejh/hugo-theme-mini]

Yes, I would suggest you don’t pick a generator but look for themes in Hugo, Jekyll, Pelican etc. that you really like. And from there you’ve fallen into a generator and you can customise the theme a little to your needs.

Here is the source code to my own website (in Hugo) if it’s helpful: https://github.com/hnarayanan/harishnarayanan.org