My goal was to get something that looked very slick, using modern CSS styling and rich client-side effects that would look great on desktop and mobile, and most importantly, something that would be very easy and convenient for me to create new blog posts and edit existing posts.

So I had the idea of using GitHub as the CMS and just writing the posts using markdown with some extra metadata at the beginning, and then basically parsing that into html/css. It ended up working really well, so I decided to turn it into a standalone open-source project, which you can see here:

https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/nextjs-github-markdown-...