Comment by fabianholzer

> Plain HTML only with a single page and hyperlinks into a specific article. Very basic styling and no JS, don't even necessarily want to have a css file, just inline in the header. Very likely just setting font family to sans and be done with it.

This describes exactly how I started out. This setup held for a bit less than two years, then I went for a multi-page setup.

The first thing that I actually scripted was an RSS feed. And the with the first refactoring of the header, I went for an SSG.

If you want actually want to blog, I'd say: the best setup is whatever gets the least into the way of actually writing and hitting publish. Styling, deployment, navigation structure, JS-based routing, all cool, but only of secondary importance when your goal is writing in public.