Depending on how simple you want it, you could just use MarkDeep, TexMe or MdMe plus something like NeoCities or a Github repo. You'd miss out on some benefits of a full generator, like automatically creating an archive page and RSS feeds and stuff like that, but you'd gain that 90's simplicity.

[0] https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/

[1] https://github.com/susam/texme

[2] https://github.com/susam/mdme

[3] https://neocities.org/