There's always Felix von Leitner aka fefe, author of dietlibc, who's blog runs on C+HTML (judging from how typos in his posts manifest)

I know: fast, simple, and works with the tools you use every day. I really don’t understand why it’s not done more.

Same here. My most recent personal project is a raw html blog where I manually update the rss and the post announcement for my podcast episodes.