I have the opposite advice: optimize for writing, minimize janitorial stuff like tweaking your own tooling. It just distracts you from writing and offers only masturbatory value.
The best path depends on your personality, but building my own blog tooling killed my writing. I'd start writing something only to realize I needed to tweak something. Then I wouldn't even write the post or I wouldn't have the energy to fix the tooling and I'd do neither. And then I stopped writing.
I didn't start writing again until I used Wordpress which let me focus on writing, though after proving myself for a year, I switched to Jekyll + Github Pages so that everything was on Github.
The best path depends on your personality, but building my own blog tooling killed my writing. I'd start writing something only to realize I needed to tweak something. Then I wouldn't even write the post or I wouldn't have the energy to fix the tooling and I'd do neither. And then I stopped writing.
I didn't start writing again until I used Wordpress which let me focus on writing, though after proving myself for a year, I switched to Jekyll + Github Pages so that everything was on Github.