Comment by fallinditch

Another benefit of using an IDE like VSCode for writing and publishing your blog is you can use the copilot AI to fill in the front matter details for you, easily add a table of contents, or add a cohesive structure of subsections. Don't forget the shift + CMD + v command to see see a preview within VSCode.

Hugo is a great choice for an SSG, I find it logical and intuitive. As for extending it with a CMS front end, I looked at Decapcms.org - formerly Netlify CMS - it gives you the WYSIWYG editor and you can hook it up to an asset management platform like Cloudinary for images.

BTW just checked Cloudinary pricing - generous free tier looks like plenty for most blogs.