SSGs are not "super easy" for non-devs. What's super easy is things like https://www.silex.me/ or, with more functionality, https://pinegrow.com/
And again, I would never recommend a static site generator to someone who doesn't think of themselves as a computer person. The context in which this conversation started was someone who was seriously considering hosting their own WordPress instance. I dearly hope that they think of themselves as a computer person.
If you're unwilling to read documentation, then yes, you're probably better off sticking to Squarespace or WordPress.com
- Good support for posting source code from various languages, both inline and in blocks, with syntax highlighting.
- Zero-effort image posting ala WordPress, ie with automatic down-sizing of the inline image if needed (in these days ideally multi-resolution).
I imagined these were quite basic needs, but I've been disappointed each time I've gone looking. Been a year since last time though.
Netlify CMS has zero-effort image posting (saves to your repo's static folder). I'll grant that it doesn't do automatic downsizing, though Netlify as a CDN does.
> I have thought about moving my personal blog onto something that isn't someone else's service. But every time I think about running my own blog server, stories like this come along.
So... yes. I was assuming that OP was going to both be the person running their personal blog and writing on it, and I was assuming that OP is pretty technically competent if they were seriously considering running their own blog server.