I'm building an Astro starter template that also makes it easy to start your own website / blog: https://github.com/BryanHogan/astro-starter-template

Astro is a framework that uses no JavaScript by default. I also use just HTML and CSS, so no bloated additional frameworks or styling libraries.

All blog content is written as Markdown or .mdx files, so it's easy to write and move to any other tool if you wish to do so.

You can host it for free using any major provider since it's just a static website (e.g., GitHub Pages, Cloudflare, etc.).

Making it similar to my own website which is on: https://bryanhogan.com/

(Repo: https://github.com/BryanHogan/bryanhogan )