My personal blog built using RMarkdown and markdown, using "Beautiful Jekyll". Want a blog that looks like this? See below for attribution.
Copyright 2016 Dean Attali
Beautiful Jekyll is a ready-to-use template to help you create an awesome website quickly. Perfect for personal blogs or simple project websites. Check out a demo of what you'll get after a few minutes. You can also look at the creators website to see it in use, or see examples of websites other people created using this theme here.
Other snazzy things such as the embedded CV were inspired by @ryanpeek, who also uses the beautiful jekyll template.