I've been using Pelican for over a year and have been pleased. It's mature, but still has active development and a strong community. A few major features:

  * markup languages (reStructuredText, Markdown, etc.),
  * code highlighting via pygments
  * themeable
  * simple to use
  * support for automated deployment

http://blog.getpelican.com/

I use Hyde and it works great for me.

http://ringce.com/hyde

My webpage uses it, feel free to steal everything besides the content:

https://github.com/stucchio/homepage

Hide does look interesting.

Nice blog BTW. Any issues controlling comment spam?

Nope, I'm using standard free disqus and I rarely see any spam.

This works well if you want to start from a dynamic application: https://github.com/SimonSapin/Frozen-Flask

I'm mostly interested in writing a series of programming and hardware design tutorials for my kid (and anyone else who might find them useful). I don't think I need anything fancy for this. Images, code with syntax highlighting and a few things. Not even sure if I want comments. He's been learning Python, so I'll use it as a way to expand his application of the language.

The rough curriculum I have in mind at the moment is:

    - Basic electronics concepts
    - Digital logic
    - Design a simple 8-bit microprocessor
    - Program it using the custom instruction set
    - Implement basic mass storage in Flash (perhaps via USB)
    - Implement a Threaded Interpretive Language (Forth)
    - Write a text editor using Forth
    - Design a number of I/O peripherals
        - 7-segment display
        - A/D and D/A
        - Dot matrix LED display
        - Various sensors
    - Build something useful, like a clock driving the n x m 
      LED display

This curriculum sounds really cool!

Be sure to post your progress to HN!

I am using tinkerer http://www.tinkerer.me/, its very simple to change and manage and uses well known sphinx-doc with jinja templates. I like it a lot you can check my live site at http://www.vyomtech.com/, since it uses boilerplate html 5 template its very easy to customize.

I use mynt. https://github.com/Anomareh/mynt It is much simpler compared to hyde. The reason I chose mynt above other similar options is that, it allows for custom urls that made migrating my previous wordpress blog posts easier without having to resort to .htaccess magic.

Ah, that's important. I need to look at the other options and see if they all support custom URL's without .htaccess magic, as you put it.

I built and use djangothis[1] for my blog. It gives you most of the power and flexibility of django, like templates, arbitrary urls and views [which gets converted to static html], templatetags and a few other niceties.

[1]: https://github.com/amitu/djangothis/.