> Jekyll is an awesome framework, But, we think it's not right for blogs for a number of reasons. Also, we think that the git push → deploy dance, is a bit too much when you want to make minor edits.

You realize this "dance" is solved by a simple post-receive hook right? For example:

  git clone ${GIT_REPO} ${TMP}                                                                                               
  ${HOME}/gems/bin/jekyll --safe --no-auto ${TMP} ${PUBLIC_WWW}                                 
  rm -rf ${TMP}

Any time you push to that repo, it builds and deploys the new site automatically.