[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Share your personal site
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Ask HN: Share your personal site
It was fun reading https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30929345 to
see people linking, debating, and critiquing/admiring each other's
sites. So what's yours?
Author : MaxLeiter
Score : 101 points
Date : 2022-04-06 16:48 UTC (6 hours ago)
| bradleybuda wrote:
| http://bradleybuda.com/
|
| Can't remember where I "borrowed" the CSS from originally. Also
| I'm past-due to turn on TLS.
| jeffdoolittle wrote:
| https://jeffdoolittle.com
|
| I write about leadership, complexity, and system design. I'm also
| one of the hosts of Software Engineering Radio at https://se-
| radio.net and a Systems Architect at Trimble.
| reayn wrote:
| https://reyan.co
|
| Hand crafted html/scss and posts full of quite literally no
| meaningful content, just nice design. I've taken the time to make
| it reasonably responsive too so i'll most likely take a break for
| the next couple years before adding animations or something.
| MatthiasPortzel wrote:
| https://MatthiasPortzel.com (or gemini://MatthiasPortzel.com)
|
| I'm not terribly happy with the content there currently. I wanted
| a personal website, and I think it does a decent job in terms of
| not looking bad and being simple. But I realized that trying to
| design a personal site is difficult because you're trying to
| design a website to fit what you've already done. There are a lot
| of things that didn't make it on my site or not in the ways I
| want, just because they don't fit nicely in the current sitemap.
| jakelazaroff wrote:
| https://jake.nyc -- mostly a blog, although I'm planning some
| more features with regard to music I create/listen to.
|
| Tangentially related: https://jake.museum -- a digital museum of
| every website I've ever made.
| bashmelek wrote:
| http://www.makarioslabs.com/ Just a little webgl demo I like
| tinkering with every so often
| asadlionpk wrote:
| https://asadmemon.com/
|
| I am trying to restart blogging, mostly tech.
| smitec wrote:
| https://www.elliotcsmith.com/
|
| Writing mainly about AI and healthcare these days. Using ghost
| (hosted) after many years of picking a new platform every time I
| felt compelled to write more.
| alpineidyll3 wrote:
| Bbgky.net
| vimota wrote:
| https://vimota.me/ :)
| Vox_Leone wrote:
| >> Share your personal site
|
| It is a privilege. Hoping to serve the portuguese-speaking
| community.
|
| https://voxleone.com
|
| Thanks for the opportunity.
| theodric wrote:
| https://potateaux.com
|
| Be gentle, it's hosted over LTE on a Raspberry Pi. It's not meant
| to do anything, just sit there and look pretty, a bit like me :)
| stankot wrote:
| https://muffinman.io
|
| My longest living website of any kind. Technical blog, mostly
| frontend and javascript, but recently I created a section for my
| generative, pen plotted art.
|
| It is made with Zola and deployed on GitHub Pages. Design is my
| own, I think the fourth iteration.
| wooptoo wrote:
| https://wooptoo.com
|
| No images, just plain HTML/CSS generated with Pelican. I try to
| keep it as minimal as possible. Haven't posted in a while though.
| MaxLeiter wrote:
| I'm at https://maxleiter.com, built with next.js for server-side
| generation but with javascript removed in the final bundle so it
| comes in at ~13KB cold cache. At risk of being mocked for my
| definition of minimalism, I tried to keep it fairly minimalist
| and simple while having a modern web aesthetic.
| thiagomg wrote:
| I know almost nothing about design, but it look minimalist to
| me
| oxplot wrote:
| https://blog.oxplot.com
|
| Statically generated by my own static site generator. Hosted on
| github pages.
| javan wrote:
| https://javan.us - the "embeds" are all static html / css
| seanwilson wrote:
| My project website: https://www.checkbot.io/
|
| I was aiming for a simple and clean design, with fast loading.
| The whole homepage is 200KB transferred. Renders in about 0.7s on
| my desktop.
|
| Main tricks: use SVG everywhere you can (the big screenshot is
| SVG) and consider inlining it, use minimal CSS and inline it,
| host fonts yourself, use CSS font swap, don't use JavaScript for
| content or at all if you can help it, minimise CSS/JS/HTML and
| use HTTP2.
| derkoe wrote:
| https://derkoe.dev Really simple and just a few blog posts
| mcovalt wrote:
| https://kiwiziti.com
|
| Named after our cats. We're using Gatsby and it uses JavaScript
| for displaying a static website; both of those things I dislike.
| Nothing is special about it, _except_...
|
| It's running on a laptop in my living room. There's a little
| Wireguard tunnel connecting it to a Hetzner server nearby. The
| packet routing should all be done in the kernel of both machines
| so it ought to be snappy.
|
| I like the fact that that _I 'm_ sorta the one shaking hands with
| your HTTPS client when you connect. I like that the website goes
| down with a power outage. Maybe I'll get a Honda generator. I
| plan on getting redundancy once Google Fiber is done installing
| in our neighborhood.
| danchoe wrote:
| Just got Google Fiber in our neighborhood (SoCal). It's
| amazing.
|
| Couldn't help but scan your site, I hope your wife is doing
| well. Cheers.
| empressplay wrote:
| https://paleotronic.com
|
| Haven't written anything new in a while though
| nichochar wrote:
| https://nicholascharriere.com
| amdelamar wrote:
| My blog https://amdelamar.com/blog/ Focusing lately on Scala and
| programming articles, but struggle to publish more frequently.
| ftvkyo wrote:
| https://ftvkyo.me
| mxuribe wrote:
| https://mxuribe.com
|
| There's my personal site. I used to host some blog posts/content,
| but removed most of them and in earnest stopped posting around
| 2017...Nowadays really i only keep this around as a sort of page
| about me. So when people ask me the different ways to contact me,
| instead of giving them a list of usernames on social media, email
| address, etc...i just tell them to go to mxuribe.com - which
| shows the places where i live online, and how to reach me. I
| would call the site minimal/basic...but really because i lack the
| energy/desire to enhance the design of the site.
| rnrwashere wrote:
| https://vatsalparekh.com updated a few months ago using
| https://getpelican.com/
|
| Haven't updated anything in years though
| _andrei_ wrote:
| https://kernel.sh/ not great, not terrible, pretty colors
| billdietrich1 wrote:
| https://www.billdietrich.me/
|
| Static site, handcrafted HTML/CSS/JS. A late-90's look because I
| want to keep everything simple, portable, able to use locally,
| and I'm no expert in UI or CSS.
| https://www.billdietrich.me/YourPersonalWebSite.html?expanda...
| the_jeremy wrote:
| https://jeremy.richards.dev is a failed attempt to create
| knowledge base with all my markdown notes (see my goals at
| https://github.com/jeremysprofile/jeremysprofile.github.io ) and
| now just holds my resume.
| binnyva wrote:
| https://binnyva.com
|
| Few other sites as well - but all linked from this site.
| theandrewbailey wrote:
| https://theandrewbailey.com/
|
| I usually post about whatever game I just finished playing. New
| post about once (or less) per month. Has RSS.
| jachererai wrote:
| https://hw-ax.github.io/hw.ax/
|
| https://hw.ax by tonight.
|
| Currently Buggy, one single html file (tiddlywiki). Very
| unfinished and unexplained.
|
| If you have a foss related non profit or project and want to try
| to raise funds/awareness by having a solo guy hike 300km across
| Portugal this July, leave a note and I'll reach out. Forgot to
| add contact info to the site other than mastodon!
|
| V.0.0.1, shame this didn't pop up tomorrow when it is much edited
| and filled in.
| nmajor25 wrote:
| https://coderrocketfuel.com
|
| Includes coding tutorials and courses I've written along with
| some of my personal projects.
| fatih-erikli wrote:
| https://fatih-erikli.com/
| tomasreimers wrote:
| https://tomasreimers.com
|
| I know I barely have time to maintain it :laugh-cry emoji: so
| minimal seemed like the right design. Probably overdue for an
| update.
| lancesells wrote:
| https://www.lancesells.com No javascript, no static site
| generator, just plain HTML and CSS.
| FinnLeSueur wrote:
| https://finn.lesueur.nz/
|
| Mostly a way for me to journal about hiking/tramping and about
| the books I read.
| askonomm wrote:
| https://bien.ee
| brk wrote:
| HTTPS://www.pelicanzero.com
|
| It's very much in progress. Have a backlog of content items to
| write once I get a break from paying projects.
| t0bia_s wrote:
| https://tobiaskucera.art
|
| Personal potfolio. CC welcome.
| siavosh wrote:
| https://neondispatch.com/
| bsilvereagle wrote:
| https://www.frdmtoplay.com
|
| It's running nearly stock Ghost 4.0. Despite the pivot from what
| made Ghost 0.x great, I haven't sat down and migrated to
| something else.
| alfiedotwtf wrote:
| https://www.alfie.wtf
|
| Now that I've revamped my static site generator, I'll be able to
| actually make new posts :sweat:
| tldrthelaw wrote:
| https://andrew.legal
|
| Mostly templates for legal agreements at this point. Gets more
| traffic than you'd think.
| vanilla_nut wrote:
| https://www.lambdalatitudinarians.org/
|
| Simple, but I like the fact that no other website looks quite the
| same. I'd really like to implement optimized images for the blog
| at some point, maybe some lightboxes too, but for now this works
| great for me. And no JS, the best kind of JS.
| peterburkimsher wrote:
| https://peterburk.github.io
|
| It used to be http://peterburk.free.fr
|
| (but I wanted .com)
|
| then
|
| http://peterburk.appspot.com
|
| (but it was blocked in China)
|
| then
|
| http://peter-burk.rhcloud.com
|
| and a redirect from
|
| https://peterburk.tumblr.com
|
| and from 2014 it was
|
| https://peterburk.github.com
|
| But now Github don't offer a .com subdomain, only .io. So I
| really wanted to move it to another free host, but haven't found
| an appropriate server that doesn't require subscription fees.
|
| I guess I'm lost in the British Indian Ocean Territories, or the
| Input/Output. Whatever io is supposed to mean.
| dkrajzew wrote:
| https://www.krajzewicz.de/
| omoikane wrote:
| https://uguu.org/
|
| I made a few ASCII art code.
| batterylow wrote:
| If we're talking personal:
|
| - I had https://shahinrostami.com which grew into a collection of
| notebooks, now it's not so personal...
|
| - Recently booted up https://polyra.com, which I'm keeping a
| little more personal
|
| For my projects, I have https://plotapi.com and
| https://plotpanel.com
| JasonCEC wrote:
| I write online books about tea / Chinese Tea Ceremony; we also
| have a companion podcast!
|
| https://www.teatechnique.org/
|
| [feedback and debate is always appreciated!]
| 0xmason wrote:
| https://www.masonhall.tech/
|
| Design inspired by root.vc
| mbrukman wrote:
| https://misha.brukman.net
|
| Most posts are about tech topics (solving a problem I ran into
| that I figured might also be of interest to others). Also some
| about typography, languages, etc.
| ntietz wrote:
| https://ntietz.com/
|
| Mostly just has my (tech-focused) blog, although there are
| aspirational placeholders for the important things in life, like
| coffee and homemade pizza.
|
| It has been hard to make time to write personal blog posts since
| my second kid was born, but I have a couple of drafts in progress
| that I aim to work up soon, at least when I take time off work.
| noduerme wrote:
| https://thestrikeagency.com. Hand coded, with a little "paper"
| engine I built that does some fun stuff with drop shadows and CSS
| transforms.
| vanilla-latte wrote:
| https://uninformed.space/index.html
|
| A simple blog where I post about anything that interests me.
| floren wrote:
| https://jfloren.net
|
| Artisanal hand-crafted CSS on a mix of hand-written HTML and
| Markdown-to-templated-HTML pages, with a webserver I wrote myself
| in Go (well, stitched together the standard library HTTP code
| myself...)
|
| It took a bit of fussing to find CSS settings which would scale
| nicely on mobile and look good on all sorts of devices, but I'm
| proud that my site degrades relatively gracefully and is readable
| in lynx, Plan 9's abaco browser, and a $20 feature phone's
| browser.
|
| I wish I updated my blog more frequently, but there's a couple
| neat projects in there.
|
| edit: i also made an effort a few years back to eliminate all
| external resources and javascript (web fonts, analytics, etc.),
| except where unavoidable (i.e. when I want to inline a Youtube
| video). I also took it out from behind Cloudflare, partly because
| they were injecting JS. I'm pleased with how it performs and how
| it's handled HN traffic on a couple front-page occasions.
| conartist wrote:
| https://www.peterlunch.com/ and I have a repo where I like to put
| awesome portfolios if you want to add yours
| https://github.com/pin0S/portfolios-that-pop
| antoineMoPa wrote:
| I used to have content, but now it's just a flashing green
| cursor:
|
| https://a-mo-pa.com
|
| However, there is still an "hidden" folder with web experiments:
| https://a-mo-pa.com/stuff/
| vandercv wrote:
| https://calebvandermaas.com/
|
| Mine is still under heavy development and I am working on a small
| feature that highlights that fact. In the meantime, here is my
| personal site that I built after just a year of programming
| experience.
| noduerme wrote:
| Hah. It's not often I start laughing the second I open a
| website.
| CarrotCodes wrote:
| https://www.carrot.blog
|
| I enjoy writing about server-side Kotlin (and a bit about
| livestreaming). I've found the process of writing about side
| projects to be really helpful in getting perspective, after being
| buried in them for a while. Hope folks enjoy reading :)
| cglong wrote:
| Immediate thoughts: I really like the color scheme and font
| choice! I feel like the entire rectangle should be a link to
| the article, since it pops out on hover.
| crenwick wrote:
| http://char.lol
| [deleted]
| danielecook wrote:
| https://www.danielecook.com mostly a technical blog. I added a
| photos section for fun which is my favorite part.
| drakonka wrote:
| Interesting range of blog post topics (looking forward to
| reading in more detail a bit later) and beautiful photos,
| thanks for sharing.
| rchaud wrote:
| https://fuzzcrush.xyz
|
| I write music reviews mostly, but there are a handful of blog
| posts in there.
|
| Site is built on self-hosted WordPress with my own theme.
| Aqua_Geek wrote:
| http://spaceisdisorienting.com/
|
| I mostly blog about iOS development.
| escot wrote:
| https://www.antipa.io
|
| Its an html file I manually edit, deployed with netlify.
| dedoussis wrote:
| https://dedouss.is
|
| My personal blog.
|
| Statically (and proudly) generated by Hakyll. Hosted on my
| personal AWS account, using Route53 + Cloudfront + s3. Source
| sits within a private GitHub repo of mine, along with some
| Actions workflow that compiles and pushes the build to s3.
| k__ wrote:
| https://kay.is
|
| I tried to put as much assets as possible into HTML, but the book
| banner just got out of hand in base64.
| Klonoar wrote:
| I do similar - the banner image is pretty much the only
| exception: https://rymc.io/
|
| (I really need to kill the light mode variant, since I despise
| it - it's much better in dark mode)
| bhartzer wrote:
| https://www.billhartzer.com My personal blog, I post whenever I
| feel there's something post-worthy. Lately it's been about stuff
| I'm passionate about that's related to what I do professionally.
| tcuthbert wrote:
| https://realmofchaos.xyz/
|
| I've been experimenting with https://github.com/srid/emanote
| stingrae wrote:
| https://raemond.com
| akselmo wrote:
| Its not much but here https://akselmo.dev
| elliotlarson wrote:
| More of a landing page than anything, but... https://elliot.la
| k__ wrote:
| The animation gave me epilepsy on mobile, lol.
|
| But nice idea.
| clowncubs wrote:
| https://jwjacobs.com
|
| Personal portfolio site - mostly hand spun late last year (HTML,
| CSS, a sprinkle of PHP) as a way to get my portfolio off of
| WordPress and to have some fun. Used a plugin for the scroll
| animations and a plugin for the form.
|
| The blog is a self-hosted WordPress site on a sub-domain. It's a
| work in progress and has a terrible load time. Been thinking of
| scrapping it in favor of something more simple and rudimentary.
| keskival wrote:
| https://goo.gl/AEwQLR
|
| It's an interactive CV representation I made because the paper-
| analogue form is so restrictive.
| nikivi wrote:
| https://nikitavoloboev.xyz
|
| It's due for big update though. Most of the content is my wiki:
| https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/knowledge
| smitec wrote:
| The wiki is fantastic, I think I landed on the gitbook version
| somehow earlier this year. Love seeing long term projects like
| this full of interesting content. Well done.
| runjake wrote:
| Warning to others: you will spend hours exploring Niki's wiki.
| It is a nerd paradise.
| slhomme wrote:
| https://slhomme.com My personal website - html/css only, I like
| to keep it minimalist with a bit of personality.
| techsolomon wrote:
| https://techsolomon.com/
| drakonka wrote:
| http://liza.io
|
| Just random ramblings about life and work. Made with Hugo. I push
| new posts to a private repo, where CI builds and uploads to S3.
| maxFlow wrote:
| Nice site. I like the breadth of topics.
| mxuribe wrote:
| Now, this site really shows some good use of minimalism! Great
| site; kudos!
| nilaykumar wrote:
| https://nilaykumar.github.io/
|
| I recently redid mine to use org-babel with org-publish. I'm
| pretty happy with how it came out, though it's still slightly
| under construction. Maybe a little too much going on to be called
| 'minimalist' though.
|
| Any criticisms or suggestions appreciated!
| Erethon wrote:
| https://blog.erethon.com/
|
| Hugo based blog with a custom theme
| https://github.com/Erethon/hugo-HackThePlanet-theme.
| Leftium wrote:
| https://www.leftium.com/ (Enable JS for animation.)
|
| Not really much there, but I host personal projects on sub-
| domains like:
|
| - https://hw.leftium.com/ Readable HN in chronological order
|
| - https://uw.leftium.com/ UltraWeather forecast
|
| - https://ph.leftium.com/ Password generator
|
| - https://blog.leftium.com/ Blog
|
| - https://ff.leftium.com/ Utility for FEH (game)
| yakshaving_jgt wrote:
| https://jezenthomas.com/posts/
|
| Angry rants about software.
|
| The site is written using a combination of Brainfuck, APL,
| Prolog, and Fortran.
|
| ...
|
| just kidding.
| pnathan wrote:
| http://pnathan.com
|
| personal blog, etc. haven't really done much for a few years,
| I've been attending to work and family more.
|
| its actually built out of a common lisp system that fully
| embraces code/data paradigm, the non-blog content is wholly
| within the lisp. :)
| jerrysievert wrote:
| https://legitimatesounding.com/
|
| crappy css, passable html, hasn't been updated in a while, but
| runs on a very old version of a home built hosting platform. very
| in need of updates.
|
| it also hasn't had a hn "workout" recently.
| sungam wrote:
| https://drmagnuslynch.com
|
| html/css/bootstrap/flask Website for my dermatology practice
| AlphaWeaver wrote:
| https://samweaver.com
|
| A few years out of date...
| yohannparis wrote:
| https://yohann.paris
|
| A simple list of small things I did. I need to spent time making
| it more polished and up to date.
| jackhalford wrote:
| https://0x5.be
|
| small static site pushed to s3, just to list projects and host
| the resume.
| robcohen wrote:
| https://www.robcohen.dev/ - It's at least a bit pretty.
| k__ wrote:
| Help, everything is big!
|
| :D
| acim wrote:
| https://ectobit.com
| bool3max wrote:
| My blog is up at https://bool3max.win
|
| As of right now most the articles I wrote are about fairly basic
| programming topics. I find that articulating explanations of
| certain concepts and cementing them in the form of a blog post
| gives me a very specific peace of mind.
| ivanech wrote:
| https://echevarria.io
|
| Started on it in undergrad and have slowly expanded it for the
| past few years. Heavily inspired by Tom MacWright's
| https://macwright.com
| aparks517 wrote:
| I maintain (what I think is) a classic personal site: picture of
| the author, articles, and bookmarks. https://aftermath.net/
| epirogov wrote:
| https://pirogove.blogspot.com I am publishing some problems I
| solved in software and hardware for my home.
| ideopunk wrote:
| https://conorbarnes.com/
|
| It should be getting a dark theme face-lift in the next week
| though!
| spondyl wrote:
| https://utf9k.net/
|
| My site has gone through a lot of iterations but I'm currently
| trying to balance some cool, newer features with a relatively
| simple codebase.
|
| It's currently using Hugo w/ Markdown but there's also a couple
| things like a live player powered by server sent events which is
| neat.
|
| I also have a bunch of blog posts and other things.
|
| A cool trick is doing some content introspection with Hugo such
| as what images are missing alt tags: https://utf9k.net/debug/alt-
| text-missing/
|
| Everything is open source too: https://github.com/marcus-
| crane/utf9k and for the API that powers the live player:
| https://github.com/marcus-crane/gunslinger
| denvaar wrote:
| https://denvaar.github.io/
| jacobevelyn wrote:
| https://ja.cob.land
|
| Should have another fun post out within the next week!
| nonamenoslogan wrote:
| https://andarazoroflove.org Nothing fancy, hosted on Github
| Pages, but I've had the domain since the early 2000's and refuse
| to let go of it.
| zknill wrote:
| https://zknill.io
|
| Personal site with blog posts on work, code, teams, orgs
| jpdias wrote:
| https://jpdias.me
|
| A simple research-focused Jekyll-based website create mostly from
| scratch.
| nvegater wrote:
| https://nvegater.com/
|
| The about section is full of the inspiration sources :)
| alcover wrote:
| http://alcover.fr/
|
| Check these crazy drawings, manic C string libs and... integer
| sequences !
| jonathankoren wrote:
| http://jonathankorensucks.com
| OisinMoran wrote:
| https://oisinmoran.com
|
| As always, it needs more content (working on a new piece now, and
| some fun ones in the pipeline), but pretty happy with the
| eclectic enough mix I've got up there so far. Would love feedback
| if anyone finds any of it interesting!
|
| The styling is a super simple (originally copied then iterated on
| http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ or one of that series),
| and I try to keep it that way.
|
| It's hosted on GitHub pages which I would recommend!
| matthewn wrote:
| https://www.mahnamahna.net/
|
| Originally built as a blosxom-powered blog in 2003, the site grew
| with a motley collection of perl and php scripts, as sites did
| back then. Then as social media came to prominence, I drifted
| away from my own site, as so many others did.
|
| I spent much of the early pandemic rebuilding from the ground up
| with Django and Wagtail. Migrated the old content without
| breaking old links. Added some front-end niceties without
| breaking anything for non-JS visitors. Recently reached feature
| parity with the original site. Now I just need to figure out what
| I want to blog about. :)
| jer0me wrote:
| https://jeromepaulos.com
|
| I just remade it to move away from WordPress. The site is a
| single PHP file that generates the site based on folders, images,
| and markdown files. Also pretty proud of the slideshow, though it
| doesn't seem to animate properly on all browsers.
| vandercv wrote:
| great stuff! I love your work (website and photography) :)
| varun_ch wrote:
| https://varun.ch, having my fairly common first name (and the
| correct ccTLD) is pretty cool! It's just a static HTML website
| hosted with Vercel.
| Wingy wrote:
| You're an inspiration to me. I first started with "programming"
| at age 6 with code.org and have been learning since. I see your
| name and projects here a lot, and you show your projects with
| such elegance. I'm 16 and have a similar story to yours, and
| you inspire me to keep going. I love the way your site is laid
| out and the way you present your skills.
| MiddleEndian wrote:
| https://www.miscbeef.com/birdcrab
|
| Online version of a board game I made awhile ago. Some other
| stuff on the site too.
|
| https://www.miscbeef.com/birdcrab/quick <- Rules
|
| The tl;dr is you have hexagonal pieces with numbers for combat
| and speed each direction. You decide how they want to be placed,
| moved, and rotated. Then turns are executed at the same time.
| Combat happens automatically when opposing pieces touch.
| neilpanchal wrote:
| https://neil.computer
|
| Uses Ghost blog engine.
| gkbrk wrote:
| My blog is at https://www.gkbrk.com and I have a small personal
| wiki at https://www.gkbrk.com/wiki/.
|
| My content is mainly about reverse engineering, network
| protocols, amateur radio stuff and cryptography.
| Hasz wrote:
| https://ethan.id
|
| Will be shameless stealing ideas from all of your wonderful sites
| igemnace wrote:
| https://ig.emnace.org
|
| I write my pages as plain HTML documents. Pretty refreshing!
|
| I have a blog post detailing the rationale:
| https://ig.emnace.org/articles/simplicity-of-web-page.html
|
| But the gist of it is pretty much what you'd expect from the site
| alone: lightweight, semantically correct, minimal Web pages.
| snjy7 wrote:
| Why don't you use markdown and convert it using pandoc or
| something. HTML files aren't really readable as notes.
| chayleaf wrote:
| https://pavluk.org - mostly just a personal blog
|
| the about section has the source code for the static site
| generator, but it really is nothing special, i just wrote it for
| fun and because i didn't feel like looking into existing ones
| hackitup7 wrote:
| https://staysaasy.com/
|
| It's not quite mine (I share it with a friend), but it is our
| personal blog since we're anonymous. We write about scaling high-
| growth engineering and PM teams.
|
| Tech stack is Jekyll with a minimalist theme that we liked
| (Hydeout). We've set up a continuous deployment pipeline via
| Gitlab. Sometimes, the engineer in me can't believe that we can
| have all of these things for free.
| SamWhited wrote:
| I used to use my blog for photography, but these days it's mostly
| just occasional thoughts and the picture part is largely unused
| or something meant to illustrate the article and not one of my
| photos, but the design still revolves around each post having an
| image:
|
| https://blog.samwhited.com/
| westcort wrote:
| https://www.locserendipity.com
|
| You can serendipitously discover and search for old books and
| resources, listen to old out of copyright music and radio, and
| talk to a robotherapist, too:
| https://www.locserendipity.com/Rogerian.html
| gwgundersen wrote:
| https://gregorygundersen.com/blog/
|
| Simple research blog on ML, stats, etc.
| smitec wrote:
| The post on Research and Adventure is great. It reminds me a
| lot of my time at Grad School. Some beautiful photos as well.
| vtomole wrote:
| My homepage: https://vtomole.com is mostly about quantum
| computing.
| personjerry wrote:
| I just want to flex my domain name :)
|
| https://www.poo.guide/
| bellebethcooper wrote:
| https://bellebcooper.com/
|
| I recently rewrote my site in Python as a learning exercise. It
| was a good first project to start dabbling in web development.
| vandercv wrote:
| I love the typography and the simplicity of your site!
| karlicoss wrote:
| https://beepb00p.xyz I mostly write about data liberation,
| quantified self and knowledge management.
|
| Some notable links:
|
| https://beepb00p.xyz/myinfra.html -- map of my personal data
| infrastructure (usually people say I'm a bit mad after seeing
| this :) )
|
| https://beepb00p.xyz/blog-graph.html -- a nice visual way to
| explore my posts
|
| https://beepb00p.xyz/exobrain -- my "external brain", basically
| public notes/links dump
| frenchie4111 wrote:
| https://staycaffeinated.com/
|
| Haven't written since the new job, been meaning to finish up a
| few drafts I have lying around
| gmemstr wrote:
| https://gabrielsimmer.com
|
| Plain ol' HTML and CSS, built off some components of the somehwat
| defunct Skeleton.css project.
| parima08 wrote:
| http://www.parimashah.com/
| ereveles wrote:
| https://www.osiux.ws/
|
| Been trying to write more often, but I just can't get myself to
| do it. Still, I use to experiment with things I wanna try.
| jitl wrote:
| Make writing as easy and frictionless as possible.
| qudat wrote:
| https://erock.io
| rickdg wrote:
| Standard Notes provides a nice workflow for maintaining a
| personal blog, here's mine: https://viewfromtheweb.com/
| anatolinicolae wrote:
| https://anatolinicolae.com/
|
| I'm too lazy to code it myself.
| tomglynch wrote:
| Had a couple of pieces on my blog already feature on HN
|
| http://tglyn.ch/
|
| Though I think some articles may need an update due to dead video
| links
| skriptmonkey wrote:
| https://experiencednovice.dev/blog/
|
| A simple blog for me to document some infrequent tasks. Built
| using WagtailCMS. Eventually I'll add a nice landing page with
| more about me. I have a few new blog post ideas that are in
| progress but writing doesn't come natural to me yet so it's a
| process to keep pushing forward with it.
| fossuser wrote:
| https://zalberico.com/
|
| I have a couple posts that I wrote when I felt like I had
| something to say. I link the serfs and zoom one here pretty
| frequently in comments when I think the arguments are relevant.
| How to Become a Hacker made it to #1 on HN which was exciting
| (none of the others got any real attention)
|
| I really like having an about page because I can link to things I
| like: https://zalberico.com/about/
|
| Plus it's fun to have a place of your own online and it was fun
| to make a super simple UI.
| nesoi-mapp wrote:
| https://trbm.net
| ssklash wrote:
| https://www.solomonsklash.io/
|
| I do offensive cybersecurity.
| pedrocab wrote:
| https://pedro.cab My personal website that I made using WordPress
| where I record absolutely everything I do/watch/read in my life
| (sleep, exercises, movies, beers, books, places I've visited, tv
| shows, etc...) since 2015. Unfortunately in portuguese, but it
| has some really cool charts using chart.js. :)
| sakisv wrote:
| https://www.sakisv.net
|
| Been meaning to write more, but things have been getting in the
| way for a while now.
| chrjs wrote:
| https://standard.dev/
|
| The domain brings me dorky joy.
| ronatory wrote:
| vmsp wrote:
| Only have a couple of writings, should work on adding more.
|
| https://0x1.pt/
| statico wrote:
| https://langworth.com
|
| It's a retro experience with a text adventure game. I wrote it to
| prove to myself that I kinda knew WebGL after shutting down our
| browser gaming startup.
|
| Only one person has beaten the game. Most don't make it inside
| the building. Guess I'm not a great game designer ;)
| j1elo wrote:
| I guess most peoplw don't even try. It was almost trivial to
| get inside! :)
|
| I'm curious if I skipped something or did as intented... Are
| you supposed to find the complete keypad number? (i.e. all 4
| digits?)
| fillskills wrote:
| Oh this is sooo nice!! Finally a break from templated internet
| and ads. Love how clean, simple, fast it is.
|
| Game - I am bad at text adventure games so obviously gave up
| after a few tries
| jppope wrote:
| https://jonpauluritis.com
|
| Articles touching on a wide range of topics such as technology,
| business, design, programming, etc.
| offbynull wrote:
| https://offbynull.com
| nocubicles wrote:
| Mines https://integrated.ee I blog there about the niche tech
| stuff that I work on. (ERP software)
| hemloc_io wrote:
| Not as exciting as some peoples here, but I have a site I've been
| slowly hacking together (I have very little frontend experience.)
|
| Check it out! Any comments are appreciated.
|
| http://www.hemloc.io
| smbv wrote:
| It might get buried under all of the other comments, but I write
| stuff occasionally on my website
|
| https://ersei.saggis.com
|
| Some of the articles are on HN and have gotten a pretty good
| reception.
| sanjiv1994 wrote:
| https://sanjivsoni.com
|
| HTML|CSS
| maxFlow wrote:
| https://rafamarino.com/ Python, analytics, misc. Hugo site, theme
| is my own.
| joshghent wrote:
| https://joshghent.com
|
| Raw thought on becoming a better programmer and human
| astrikos wrote:
| https://art-res.xyz this is a website that I mainly use for
| blogging about art resources. Made in Hugo, though probably needs
| a fresh coat of paint.
| randomblock1 wrote:
| https://randomblock1.com/
|
| I just think it's funny to see the juxtaposition of new, hand-
| crafted, high quality CSS & JS sites next to... let's just say
| "minimalist aesthetic" sites.
|
| And then there's mine, just a Jekyll template... Maybe I should
| learn some webdev.
| pclmulqdq wrote:
| www.specbranch.com
|
| Made with Hugo. I did a few bits of HTML and CSS, but it was
| mostly made with a template. Hosted on a DO droplet, with
| cloudflare.
| grecy wrote:
| http://theroadchoseme.com
|
| Documenting my years on the road driving my own vehicles to 56
| countries.
|
| After quitting my software eng job I drove the Pan American
| Highway from Alaska to Argentina through 17 countries over two
| years .
|
| After working and saving I drove right around Africa, through 35
| countries over three years.
|
| Now I'm tackling Australia
| kuharich wrote:
| http://dashupdate.com/
| jeroenoliemans wrote:
| https://www.wonderolie.nl updated two years ago. WordPress blog
| with a portfolio based on 12 year old JSON files. Every couple of
| years I create a new portfolio site based on it, currently React
| feniv wrote:
| https://fenivarughese.com/ Hand-crafted Hugo static site hosted
| on Github Pages.
|
| https://github.com/Feni/feni.github.io
| aidenyb wrote:
| Here's my attempt at a personal site: https://aidenybai.com
|
| Nothing too flashy, just simple and straight to the point
| cjlm wrote:
| https://cjlm.ca - currently sporting a newspaper-style layout
| inspired by http://www.breckyunits.com/
| tekknolagi wrote:
| https://bernsteinbear.com
|
| I write about programming languages and compilers, mostly.
| bitxbitxbitcoin wrote:
| Https://www.thehighestcritic.com
|
| A review site with a cannabis slant. Any suggestions on what to
| review next?
| prashp wrote:
| https://prashp.gitlab.io/
|
| Tutorials for things I've learnt during my grad research.
| zck wrote:
| https://zck.org/, a static site on Nearly Free Speech.net. I post
| about Emacs and generative art. In the future, maybe some improv
| or guitar posts too.
|
| I also have https://theflyingbuffalo.com/, a buffalo chicken
| review blog.
| atum47 wrote:
| https://victorribeiro.com
| poushkar wrote:
| My blog: http://nywkap.com My guide for tech leads:
| http://techleadcompass.com
| mike_d wrote:
| https://www.MikeDamm.com - ANSI art rendered in the browser.
| Click anywhere to get the music going.
| xena wrote:
| https://christine.website
| k__ wrote:
| I like the Markdown-without-parsing-it style.
| thiagomg wrote:
| Interesting. I always thought my website was just ugly, but now I
| am calling it minimalist.
|
| http://thiagocafe.com/
| billdietrich1 wrote:
| No RSS feed ? :-(
| Minor49er wrote:
| This site is great! I like the layout, topics, and the
| clickable face in the top right corner of the page
| krishna2 wrote:
| https://krishna2.com - my personal site with some essays but
| mostly I keep it to publish my reading list:
| https://krishna2.com/books
| jacobheric wrote:
| https://www.jacobheric.com
|
| Been posting mostly photos, and very occasional thoughts, for the
| last 15 years.
| deanebarker wrote:
| https://deanebarker.net/
| sussexby wrote:
| https://www.danheath.io/
|
| Needs altering to have a personal profile and not just a
| (infrequently updated) blog.
| ovao wrote:
| Some of these are really amazing. Here's mine:
| https://www.ovao.dev
|
| SvelteKit, mdsvex for rendering blog posts, and Anime.js for some
| of the animations (which I should just get around to doing in
| pure CSS at some point). Deploys to Vercel.
| Jaruzel wrote:
| OK here goes...
|
| http://www.jaruzel.com/
|
| No, it's not https - I can't be bothered.
|
| Amiga/Gopher/Doctor Who/Terry Pratchett content. Written in bad
| PHP, with self cranked html/css/js.
| ReaLNero wrote:
| http://maksimov.ski. Very simple interactive page that I made for
| fun.
| yobert wrote:
| Oooo that's fun. I feel like a kid playing with jelly.
| imgabe wrote:
| https://tiltingatwindmills.dev/
|
| It's a blog and also a place to tinker with various front end
| things.
| rgoomar wrote:
| My personal site - https://rishigoomar.com
|
| Built on Nextra and deployed to Render as a static site.
| jerpint wrote:
| www.jerpint.io
| mos_6502 wrote:
| https://blog.ctis.me/
|
| This blog is statically generated by Hugo. It's compiled and
| hosted by Cloudflare Pages, using GitHub for version control.
| Image files and other large assets are stored in BackBlaze B2 and
| served via Cloudflare.
|
| I originally built it atop a functional Werc installation, but
| ultimately decided I would prefer static sites to running a
| server. Luckily, I stumbled across a port of the base Werc
| template and styles into Hugo's templating system. From this I
| was able to port my own revisions and achieve a pleasing result,
| combining Werc's aesthetic simplicity with my desire for a static
| site.
| aenean wrote:
| https://bailey.is
|
| Keeping it simple
| spindle wrote:
| http://xeny.net
| patrick91 wrote:
| https://patrick.wtf
|
| Built with next.js and Ghost as a headless CMS
| laptop-man wrote:
| michaellapan.com just redid it with vuepress, going to try and
| commit to blogging... again lol
| davidtos wrote:
| https://www.davidvlijmincx.com/
|
| I write mostly about Java, testing and future additions to the
| language.
| jachee wrote:
| Mine's super-simple.
|
| https://rlhitboxes.com
|
| It predates Epic/Psyonix updating their FAQ with all the relevant
| data. I keep it around because people apparently still like it a
| lot.
| croshan wrote:
| https://blog.cyrusroshan.com
|
| Recently redesigned my blog to show previews of the posts before
| you read them. Though I can't say I thought of the idea on my own
| --it's inspired by the way Dan Luu screenshots the beginning of
| his blog posts whenever he posts them on twitter (for example,
| https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1472142011918471170?s=20&t...)
| ottobonn wrote:
| Those previews are great! I like that I can start reading the
| article before clicking it.
| alexobenauer wrote:
| On my personal site, I've published my explorations (so far) on
| the future of personal computing, by way of designing an
| "operating system of the future."
|
| https://alexanderobenauer.com
|
| The site is built in Svelte using Elder.js as an SSG.
| smitec wrote:
| The content and the design of your site look excellent, well
| done. I think the lab notes format for longer term projects
| works well to group ideas.
|
| Is there any way to preview what is in the member magazine? It
| looks compelling but hard to tell if it crosses into purchase
| territory from the outside.
| davjhan wrote:
| HeyLaughingBoy wrote:
| My most recent personal site is running on an ESP8266. Wish I
| could find an easy way to put it on the internet...
| cushychicken wrote:
| http://cushychicken.github.io
| mbaris wrote:
| https://baris.io I am also using a template with nextjs and
| tailwind. I like how snappy it is
| victorgama wrote:
| https://vito.io
| stevesearer wrote:
| https://mrsearer.com/
|
| Logging trips and hikes over the years.
|
| The main thing that is slightly different is that trip reports
| can be viewed in chronological order as opposed to reverse
| chronological order like most blogs are arranged.
|
| For instance: https://mrsearer.com/travel/costa-rica-2014/
| marginalia_nu wrote:
| https://memex.marginalia.nu/
| marginalia_nu wrote:
| Cloudflare is breaking the icons, but only on mobile so I can't
| debug why.
|
| It's a custom engine, that renders to both HTML and GemText.
| gentleman11 wrote:
| Lots of people have posted. I think it would be nice if everyone
| who links to their site commented on two others
| j3s wrote:
| https://j3s.sh
|
| it currently runs on https://capsul.org
|
| it's powered entirely by golang :D i recently wrote a (long-
| winded) thought post about this: https://j3s.sh/thought/my-
| website-is-one-binary.html
| donbrae wrote:
| https://www.jamieonkeys.dev/
|
| Made with Eleventy.
| jstrieb wrote:
| Kept mine simple. Made by hand!
|
| https://jstrieb.github.io
|
| I get a ton of action on my contact form, but mostly from people
| using Link Lock (one of my projects), or people who use my Cookie
| Clicker auto clicker bookmarklet.
| catpea wrote:
| https://www.catpea.com/ custom code exploring github editable
| data, that is then processed into a local .cache folder and made
| into an express (JS) website which I then spider to convert into
| a static version.
|
| UI uses bootstrap with minor modifications.
|
| Compilation is handeled via https://github.com/catpea/eternia
| which I can't replace with hugo, as I want to have a notion of
| books, playlists, maybe javascript apps in some articles. I need
| a custom static site generator.
|
| I am learning how to Narrate audiobooks while reading my own
| poetry, and learning how to write out philosophical ideas in the
| process.
|
| I also convert the audio into simple videos on youtube, and
| recently uploaded a 70+ hour behemoth to the Internet Archive
| (3.6GB) https://archive.org/details/@catpea-com
|
| I recommend making an audio recording of your writings (I use
| audacity and a mic with a pop/plosive filer) even if just for
| your family for 50 or a 100 years from now.
|
| I have no views, I have no time to argue with people which is why
| I keep away from social media, I only have time make a stranger
| laugh (I do digital portraits on reddit and occasionally compose
| a weird song on youtube).
|
| As to the content it self, I am just exploring random subjects,
| that capture my own curiosity. It is nothing special, it will
| take me a couple more decades to grow into a writer. This is my
| start.
|
| Currently I am babbling about digital painting, previously 3D
| Printing, Music Composition, Circuit Design, Programming,
| Teaching, Dancing (I dance to Blanco Brown
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7U6AoZ27yE at the gym every day
| I can't help it), Bicycling, Camping, and sending people on the
| Appalachian trail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPSvdKTEZug
|
| I host with vercel, as a hobby project. If you want to grab all
| the audio, use the archive.org or youtube. The archive.org link
| has everything one file, and youtube has a playlist you can hop
| around.
|
| I am not a fan of ads, I understand YouTube maybe running their
| own ads on videos I did not monetize. If I recorded a video of my
| readings, and did video editing, I would regret putting all that
| time into videos that now would have ads between them.
|
| I like being a narrator, not a fan of videos, decades from now
| I'll write an AudioBook, in which I complain about High School.
| mateusfreira wrote:
| https://mateusfreira.github.io/
|
| I just blog about stuff I am doing or reading, some rust some js
| other stuff
| dradtke wrote:
| https://damienradtke.com/
| Minor49er wrote:
| Not mine, but a project of a friend's that makes experimental
| music to raise money for charity: https://moonmusiq.com/
|
| It's supposed to be simple so everything about it is on a single
| page without Javascript or any third party dependencies
| MaxLeiter wrote:
| I like it! but you might want to let your friend know the link
| color very accessible with that background color:
| https://wave.webaim.org/report#/https://moonmusiq.com/
| Minor49er wrote:
| What a great tool. I'll pass this info along. Thank you!
| Elof wrote:
| https://rad.as
|
| Intended to make this to start blogging... didn't happen but
| still had some fun making the site
| k__ wrote:
| Made me lol, thanks
| jaimebuelta wrote:
| https://wrongsideofmemphis.com/
|
| I talk mostly about Python and other dev topics...
| gattopalla wrote:
| My main website is a simple Bootstrap website and there's not
| much of interesting about it. But my blog has a cool system
| behind it.
|
| https://blog.shish.cat/ or https://blog.shish.cat/basic
|
| It proxies https://telegra.ph, Telegram's article publishing
| system, adding dark mode and removing js (and other things on the
| basic version), the homepage is just an article itself. Hosted in
| a cloudflare worker. Let me know if anyone is interested in the
| source code.
| JanisIO wrote:
| Among them are many very inspiring works. I am never really
| satisfied with my personal websites. Revise mine therefore again.
|
| But the current state is this:
|
| https://janis.io/
| Wowfunhappy wrote:
| https://jonathanalland.com
|
| I'm actually really proud of it--I love the way it looks and
| feels. I wanted the site to be _playful_ but still professional,
| and to feel "modern" without being flat. Feel free to tell me
| how I did.
|
| Everything is handwritten HTML + CSS + Javascript; I avoided even
| using a build system. I did use some tiny Javascript libraries,
| but I gave myself a limit: the site had to contain more bytes of
| my own code than other people's code.
|
| The site also supports back to IE11 and Safari 6, as long as
| Javascript is turned on. (And it works without Javascript in
| modern browsers.)
| vandercv wrote:
| Love those animations, it looks so clean!
| JKCalhoun wrote:
| Wow:
|
| https://jonathanalland.com/caroline.html
| varun_ch wrote:
| I think it's really cool! I like how the buttons are like more
| modern versions of old MacOS buttons!
|
| I wish modern design practices didn't make it so button-y
| buttons look out of place. We've really lost a lot of
| accessibility with everything using minimal styling for
| buttons.
| MaxLeiter wrote:
| I like it! One note though, you may want to disable/lessen the
| animations when reduced motion is enabled
| Wowfunhappy wrote:
| I need to revisit reduced motion at some point. I took it out
| because it was causing problems in an ancient version of
| Safari (which I have to support because I can and it's my
| website).
| caslon wrote:
| Your writing is really incredible.
| Wowfunhappy wrote:
| Thank you so much!
|
| My current problem is, the two pieces I have right now were
| so much work, and are so polished, that I can't bring myself
| to add any new writing, because it wouldn't live up to what I
| have. Some day...
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