I wouldn't. Sorry to be a buzz kill, but if I wanted to sharpen my skills, I would either find an open source project to help out on (maybe even a blogging one) or work on a side project that either helped people or had a chance of making money.
You can learn a lot from explorations like this.
It may be a good opportunity to check out some existing solutions to make this easier / that does this for you: Gatsby, StoryForj, Webflow, Bubble.
Try something new! Take a look at incorporating support for new IndieWeb technologies like Webmention or MicroPub - see https://indieweb.org/Category:building-blocks for a list of tech.
Iām currently working on incorporating Webmention and MicroPub into https://etch.blog