Ask HN: Blog from scratch or use Framework/CMS

I'm looking to create my own blog for prompting myself to the world as for as looking for a job and stuff. Nowadays it seems like employers would rather see your work on Github or blog than a degree. If I want to create my own website or blog should I build it from scratch using PHP which I am familiar with or use Wordpress or some framework that makes the job easy for you. I see a lot of developers going with the latter rather than the former. Thanks guys could really use your advice on this one.