I'm in the process of resurrecting an old blog of mine, which had used hexo back in the day with all the raw posts being markdown files that are statically rendered to HTML... and to be honest I'm pretty tempted by this very simple approach because hexo is, honestly, annoying me.

For whatever reason it's just not picking up themes even though I'm now using the most up to date everything. And actually I've realised I don't even like the vast majority of the themes anyway, including the one I used previously. And since developing my own hexo theme seems like kind of a faff, I'm pretty tempted to just throw together a Sass sheet, compile it to CSS, and use that as my theme.

I guess if I got into the detail of it - comments, archive pages, etc. - the complexity would start to creep in and I'd find that what I was doing was building my own home-rolled hexo-alike... so maybe I should persist with figuring out why themes aren't working for a bit longer.