<p> I have been toying with the idea of migrating this blog to a static site to simplify its maintenance for some time. While <a href="https://wordpress.org">WordPress</a> is a great tool, this blog is a side project and any time I have to spend maintaining WordPress gets deducted from the time I have to write for the blog. Keep in mind that I'm self-hosting this blog and it's actually running on a Linux VM that only handles the blog. This is yet another server that I need to administer,…