Initially, I used Google Sites. It was not nice but ... Okay. Then Google completely remade the Sites. I had to migrate my content to the new version of the product. Things was not smooth: formats were broken, especially code format; the navigation experience was ugly...
I realized I was locked by a vendor in my own content. I was just thinking: it's a pity that a software engineer couldn't make a website for himself which is considered trivial in his job. I started finding way to make my own site by ... buying a domain name! I am happy that I finally could find a name that perfectly matches my philosophy.
Personally, I think a database for storing static text content is overkill. Imaging that I'll have to operate CMS server, a database server, and have to manage database backup/restore. Thus, I looked for a CMS that doesn't use database! It has to be open source and the programming language doens't matter.
I love Markdown especially how easy it is when taking note source code. For writing software-related topics, that is all we need. Hence, markdown support was added to the criteria.
I finally came to Grav, satisfying all my needs: a file-base open source CMS supporting Markdown syntax.
Here are steps showing how I adopted this CMS: