This website is powered by Hugo, a static site generator written in Go by Steve Francia.
Having maintained several wordpress blogs over the years, I sought a more minimalist and efficient approach for this blog. After considerable research, I chose Hugo (over Jekyll) for its speed and simplicity. With Hugo, you write content using markdown and run a program to generate HTML pages. It includes an embedded webserver to serve the content locally. Changes are reflected automatically, thus enabling one to iterate quickly.
A combination of Atom to develop the content, Hugo to generate static pages and Amazon S3 to serve the content keeps things dead simple.
Take a look at the Quick start guide if you’re curious to learn more about Hugo.