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Coding to SSGs are fashionable at the moment, yet somehow writing your own HTML isn't...
Writing the template and the content in HTML is easy enough for me, but I'm still struggling to make post lists, feeds and other things out of it without a lot of administrative effort.
Just use Publii, it's new static CMS with GUI and themes, supports Netlify, GitHub Pages, Google Cloud, S3 or SFTP. https://getpublii.com