Ask HN: Share your personal site

Here are some essays I'm particularly fond of:

- https://taylor.town/synthetic-intelligence

- https://taylor.town/to-your-grave

- https://taylor.town/eschew-the-new

- https://taylor.town/pick-practical-principles

- https://taylor.town/10-minutes

- https://taylor.town/beware-the-grind

I've had this one for a couple years now. I've had more polished-looking sites in the past, but this time I wanted to emphasize having fun with it and not being too precious - this allows me to update it without worrying about everything being perfect.

It's a static site built by Eleventy. I edit/build it locally, and then when I push up to Github it's rebuilt there by a Github action. Details here: https://www.justus.ws/how/

Edit: An interesting tidbit: my avatar in the upper-left corner blinks on a random timer thanks to a very simple bit of JS[0]. However, it exhibits a strange and unexpected behaviour: if you don't interact with the webpage for a while, my avatar "goes to sleep"; e.g. the eyes close until you interact with it again.

I love this, but I don't know why it happens! I get that the browser probably pauses scripts after a time, but why would it always end up with its eyes closed, especially when the eyes are only supposed to close for 150ms at a time?

[0]:

  async function blinktimer() {
    async function blink() {
      var src = $(" .avatar ").attr('src');
      console.log("BLINK!");
      $(" .avatar ").attr('src','/images/dadi-avatar_blink.png');
      await sleep(150);
      $(" .avatar ").attr('src',src);
    }
    while (true) {
      var delay = Math.floor((Math.random() * 11000) + 0);
      await sleep(delay);
      blink();
    }
  };

(And potato.horse for meeting notes)

The story is that I was going to make my own blogging platform from scratch with vanilla Django for personal use, but then I thought about making it available to anyone for use, but then I noticed that there are already plenty of those, so I made one with a twist.

Actually the name “Pressn’t” comes from making blogs without Wordpress and a wordplay with present.

I mostly write about research and reading. Here are some recent posts:

Interesting books from 2022: https://bcmullins.github.io/interesting-books-2022/

Interesting articles from 2022: https://bcmullins.github.io/interesting-articles-2022/

Foreign Affairs at 100: https://bcmullins.github.io/foreign-affairs-100/

Aaaand https://links.l3m.in ! That's a Shaarli-like website made using Django, it helps me store my links.

and https://forum.krehwell.com/ for hackernews clone of mine.

aint much, but honest work :')

LISP, compilers, array programming, science fiction models, statistics, meditation, programming languages, etc...

I've been using it as a mixed place for documenting engineering projects and hosting piles of images from various reverse engineering efforts & excursions throughout the states.

I've been slowly working on it becoming more mobile friendly. As a static site its incredibly time consuming to cleanup, but also fun. It's like restoring up rusty cookware, similar functionality but way prettier after a lot of scrubbing.

I post bookmarks at https://jamesg.coffee.

It's written with Gatsby and hosted on Netlify (which handles the build step without configuration). I picked Gatsby because I wanted to use react/preprocessors, but also wanted to be able to "just write" (and MDX lets me do both of those). It also has a vibrant plugin ecosystem and is JS based (vs Ruby, which my previous site used; I don't write Ruby any longer).

I blog a few times a year, a mix of technical topics and media reviews. The blog is meant to be mostly text, but it being in React means I can drop in rich things, like support for hide-able spoilers and nice code blocks. I've optimized the layout for reading text (good font size, max-width, line-height), so hopefully it works!

Some favorite posts are:

- Python Dataclasses from Scratch: https://xavd.id/blog/post/python-dataclasses-from-scratch/

- My yearly media review. Here's 2021; 2022 should be up in the next few days: https://xavd.id/blog/post/favorite-media-2021/

Thanks for looking!

All very nerdy electronics stuff: connecting GDB over JTAG, logic design, playing with FPGAs, repair of old test equipment, LED projects

It used to be a Jekyll site but after just getting frustrated with markdown and Jekyll I moved to Ghost. Ideally, I'd like to delete all social media and just have a newsletter via it.

Was featured many times on HN and it seems the community really liked some of my posts

https://blog.haschek.at/

https://www.yusufaytas.com

Built with a little static site generator I use for a couple other projects as well: https://radishjs.com

I don't publish frequently, but when I do, I aim to cover underrepresented topics.

https://on-systems.tech/

I just published a post 2 days ago about 2022 Self Published Book earnings! I was kind of hoping hn would find it interesting but no luck so far!

https://on-systems.tech/blog/130-2022-self-published-book-ea...