I decided to take a simple and homegrown approach to this site. It is built using the Hugo static site generator. It is hosted on Github Pages. All the source code is visible in a public github repository.
This site uses no javascript and collects no metrics. I have no idea what my page views are or how many unique visitors I get. This keeps my focus on writing what I want to write, not catering to content that drives numbers.
The design of this site is simple and minimalistic. For most pages the default font is the system font of your devices’ operating system. The one exception is the stories collection, where I chose an Iowan Old Style book font from Online Web Fonts.