I have chosen to use Hugo for this project after first seeing this video. I'm using the m10c theme.
I had a similar system in place previously before where I write in markdown and it's rendered nicely, however it was extremely sluggish, took forever to build and wasn't enjoyable to work with for adding new features.
Another reason I opted for Hugo is because I'm trying to better my GO knowledge, although this doesn't require much GO work, it's still a nice project to have under my belt :).
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mkdir $HOME/src
cd $HOME/src
git clone https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo.git
cd hugo
go install