Ask HN: Examples of clean design in personal blogs / digital portfolios?

13 points by soultrees 2y ago ↗ HN

I saw someone post their personal blog many months ago, and even though I didn’t save it, the thing that stood out to me was the website’s usage of type formatting and it’s own internal baked in reader-view, and it just felt so good to browse the site because of how clean, yet modern it felt. Since then I try to visit as many personal sites that get posted on here for visual and structural inspiration so I’d love to see some more examples. Please note, clean design doesn’t always have to equal minimal.

What are some of your favourite examples of when design is implemented well on personal sites?

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epakai 2y ago ↗

I enjoyed https://shipilev.net/labs/network-de/

It's similar to my own personal knowledge base (non-public at the moment), but I like it enough that I used it as a reference to tweak my own a bit. The output seems to come from Asciidoctor, but I don't know if it's been modified.

efortis 2y ago ↗

Not many, but some people have emailed me with compliments about the functional desing of this post:

https://blog.uidrafter.com/freebsd-jails-network-setup

oddlinks 2y ago ↗

I use a clean (and minimal) old-school themed design from Curiositry (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=curiositry) for my blog @ oddlinks.com.

I'm quite biased, but rather like the elegantly simple and retro style.

https://www.curiositry.com/weblog-ghost-theme/about/index.ht...

ianpurton 2y ago ↗

The typography plugin which comes out of tailwind gives a clean readable experience in my opinion. https://tailwindcss.com/docs/typography-plugin

5cott0 2y ago ↗

https://edwardtufte.github.io/tufte-css/

oddlinks 2y ago ↗

This is excellent :) The footnotes/margin notes are particularly elegant.

soultrees 2y ago ↗

This is great. Know of any examples using these rules in practice?

q-base 2y ago ↗

My blog on github pages was heavily inspired by Tufte: https://jmreiche.github.io/

soultrees 2y ago ↗

That’s beautiful. I love it.

q-base 2y ago ↗

Thanks a lot!

umtksa 2y ago ↗

I love this jekyll theme called "sidey" and whenever I need one I just use this https://github.com/ronv/sidey

my blog using a little bit cleaned version https://umtksa.github.io/

amerkhalid 2y ago ↗

Love this.

I am still working on my minimalist theme for hugo. Your blog is pretty close to what I have in my mind.

_kb 2y ago ↗

Definitely a biased opinion, but I don't mind my collection of notes. As a sample: https://simple.industries/notes/counting.html

I've been slowly hacking at a system that lets me jot things down with markdown and latex in Obsidian, then render in a mostly clean and lightweight form. The build pipeline is just a bash script and pandoc to keep tooling as thin as possible too.

I hope to have time to expose the underlying graph in yet to be defined way, but have neither the time or amount of content to warrant that yet. A source of inspiration and admiration for that is definitely https://notes.andymatuschak.org/.