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Ask HN: Show Us Your Personal Website/Blog?

74 points by clusmore ↗ HN
I've seen a couple[1][2] of posts recently about personal websites/blogs where some people seemed hesitant to post their own site, and perhaps more didn't post at all to avoid self-promotion. So I thought, why not ditch the modesty and just have a post where you can shamelessly plug your own website. I love reading your comments here, so let's see what you all have put on your websites.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19188760

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19114037

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clusmore
I'll get the ball rolling. This is my personal blog: https://lusmo.re

I've overhauled the style recently inspired a lot by the simplicity of Butterick's Practical Typography[0]. It's all hand-written HTML and CSS, with JS completely optional only there to enable the theme switcher and 1-click copy on code snippets.

[0]: https://practicaltypography.com/

krrishd
Been a while since I’ve updated it, but http://itskrish.co

I promise I was on the minimalist monospace emoji design wave a few months before it really took off :)

_mrmnmly
haha I was thinking about starting similar thread :) don't bother if I repost from other thread again?

https://lukaszkups.net

My DeusEx-game-inspired personal website (love the game, especially from the design side so decided to take an inspiration from it)

Will soon release tool I've used to generate this website (yes, another static site generator ;) )

luxpir
:+1: for the design, guy! Cyberpunk done well. Just needs a 90s feel "Metadyne" style corporation name slapped across it and a neon/rain page and I'll never leave.
apexalpha
https://jules.hu.ls/

I made it to get familiar with all tooling involved - I host the website myself at home. From the hardware to middle ware to the web server it all runs on a simple €150 dell server.

Might be a bit slow for non EU people because of it. :)

To create it I used Hugo!

https://gohugo.io/!

edit: no markdown here...

alfonsodev
hello from EU, your site loads perfectly fine :) only the picture took a bit to load, but totally usable.
svenhof
Looks good and loads fine from ireland :) Might want to reduce the size of the profile picture. jules.jpg is 1.6mb
apexalpha
>Might want to reduce the size of the profile picture. jules.jpg is 1.6mb

Yeah it's on the list!

blcArmadillo
Just FYI loads fine from U.S. as well. 436ms for all the html/scripts. 1.79 sec for jules.jpg.
danieltorre
Loads fine from California, United States of America.
edent
I wrote an SVG powered contact page which is around 16KB. https://edent.tel/

I was trying to get the most functionality out of the minimum possible size.

Libbum
This is really cool! Simple and very effective. Well done.
kuroikyu
I've been thinking lately I should take a look at Gatsby finally add build a blog that goes with my current website. At the moment it's just a list of projects and some contact info.

https://kuroikyu.com/

tarasmatsyk
Hey Hacker News! Python^Vim user here.

A blog: https://tarasmatsyk.com/ I always export posts on medium: https://medium.com/@tarasmatsyk

I am talking about Architecture, ML SOA models in production and Team building activities. Next post is going to be about our experience of using PyTorch in production for a year.

It's backed with GoHugo on top of Netlify and I am extremely happy about it. Also I wrote a post on how to start a blog under 2 hours where compared most popular blogging engines for engineers: https://tarasmatsyk.com/posts/1-how-to-start-a-blog-in-2-hou...

spc476
It's a mixture of programming, travel, observations, and other miscellaneous topics for the past twenty years using a home grown blogging engine: http://boston.conman.org
lifebeyondfife
https://lifebeyondfife.com/

Tech: some coding projects e.g. an old constraint solver in an Excel spreadsheet which helps pick a fantasy football team, opinions on software development, how I designed my wedding ring, and a series of git-for-beginners posts.

I used to self-enforce "must make a post at least once per month" for a few years, but it's been a while since I last blogged regularly. Plan to restart this year with a series on fitness for tech/office workers.

Top tip: choosing a subject matter agnostic name means that you can alter what you blog about as your interests change over the years.

moviuro
Things that might be not-so-useless, mostly home-related networking, FAQs for subreddits I participate in, and bad puns... https://try.popho.be
louisswiss
My personal website/blog is here: https://www.louisnicholls.com

I tend to write mainly about technical marketing, bootstrapping and common early-stage founder mistakes.

luxpir
Signed up for the newsletter - this guy can market!
nullandvoid
Recently finished updating my portfolio - would love to hear some feedback / feel free to get in touch for a chat :)

http://tomyeoman.me

geraltofrivia
Hi, nullandvoid. I can't comment about the content on your page, but here's a few comments about the UI, which IMHO perturb the experience.

- As you scroll down, and the gradients shift to yellow, white font based text gets difficult to read

- (On Mobile) the black footer, and headers feel uncanny, and take up reading space. Maybe fixing the header to the top of the page is a better option? Since most people don't mind scrolling to the top to find the nav bar. Kudos for using both text and icons there btw. Regarding the footer, the left side (powered by ?) can go to the bottom of the page since it's not particularly relevant. Also consider making the icon clickable to whatever that thing is. The LinkedIn, GitHub and Stack overflow links could be in the contact section, where you've got linkedin anyway. Or maybe fixed at the top, right above projects section.

All of this is just my personal thoughts, feel free to ignore :)

nullandvoid
Hi geraltofrivia - Appreciate the feedback!

I'm certainly aware of the mobile being more clumsy than I had wanted ( spent a lot of time on the desktop and then retrofitted the mobile view which i'm unhappy with :P ).

I will certainly add those points to my TODO list when i'm polishing it up over the next few weeks

[dead] Opportunity007
Just noticed this, under the projects headline, first sentence, I believe it’s s meant to be *Opportunity
zimpenfish
Oh, why not? If nothing else, it might provoke me to do the second part of the linear typewriters post.

https://rjp.is/blogging/ (powered by Hugo)

There is no coherent theme, I'm afraid.

seanwilson
Recently redesigned homepage for my software consultancy services (aimed for minimal but nice looking and made the tech jargon easy to skip if you're non-technical):

https://www.seanw.org/

This is the homepage for my paid Chrome extension that audits multiple pages at a time for SEO, speed and security problems like broken links, duplicate content, render blocking scripts and insecure password forms:

https://www.checkbot.io/

The homepage is less than 300KB (custom CSS theme, minimal JS + all images use SVG including the header screenshot) and the whole website follows all the rules the extension advocates (see https://www.checkbot.io/guide).

Feedback welcome! :)

Libbum
My blog is at https://axiomatic.neophilus.net/ where I write mostly about software/math/physics. A static site built using Zola https://www.getzola.org/

I also have a travel/photoblog which has some really cool features. It's written in Elm https://odyssey.neophilus.net/

pepijndevos
http://pepijndevos.nl/

The site is mostly about my personal projects. Everything from the web to Z80 assembly to electronics. Currently ongoing: homebrew modular synth

The design is quite old, most recently updated with a mobile layout. Powered by Jekyll with very plain HTML and CSS with a smudge of JS for the rotating wheel. Search is broken and I have not found an alternative.

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