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Ask HN: Care to share your personal site?

#1
As embarrassing as it sounds, I've never really understood the advantage of having a personal site over the possible downsides.

On one hand, if you're a professional, you have a reputation to build, but on the other hand anonymity never really was a problem for me professionally.

At any rate, I'm considering giving making a personal site a try, I just am not convinced what the pros and cons really are. This actually may be hard to ask of others, as I know many of us here do prefer to remain anonymous, to greater or lesser extent.

I appreciate anyone whom does share their site, since I'm curious what a personal/professional programmer site might look like. Or if anyone whom just has solid advice about my questions is welcome to share it.

I know many of us just use github, more or less, as their means of building a professional reputation--but a part of me distrusts social media, even if it's github of all things.

But I'm also curious about what stack was used to make your site. I've looked at static site generators, but none I found felt right to me. I guess it's one of those cases where if there is no clear winner, then the problem hasn't really been solved yet.

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#4
My personal site does the job (https://guido.io), it lists some old and current projects and it allows me to post some snippets of knowledge every now and then as a blog. There are a hundred ways I want to improve it, but it is rarely at the top of my priority list.

I started with just some HTML and CSS, and later shoe-horned it into a Hugo template which required some awful custom theme hacks.

> But I'm also curious about what stack was used to make your site. I've looked at static site generators, but none I found felt right to me. I guess it's one of those cases where if there is no clear winner, then the problem hasn't really been solved yet.

It's fairly simple to create your own static site generator in any programming language with different tradeoffs, I think that is one of the main reasons why there are so many out there. It's about the content and your visitors won't care which framework you used anyway - so just pick one and be done with it. You can port your content over if you ever want to switch.

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#6
Here's my site. I work at a communication school. I've noticed we often get the usual suspects into the comms industry - so I'm trying to help fix that a little bit (for free) (https://adamhorne.com/outsiders/)

As a designer I would find myself messing with the design all the time, I told myself that I had to use the default WordPress theme with a tiny amount of little CSS tweaks (font size, color) and that that it. The good thing is that it updates seamlessly.

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#7
You can find my site at cbailey.co.uk (it's my first time sharing it online!)

It's a pretty informal blog (and it's very unpolished). It's a standard Elixir/Phoenix app which polls GitHub Issues which is actually where my blog posts are stored (I'm basically leveraging it to do syntax highlighting, markdown to HTML compilation and eventually comments)

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#10
Sharing mine as well. http://mariokranjec.dev

Due to personal reasons had to pause publishing for quite some time. Had really encouraging talk this week with one of the more visible members of my local tech community who shared some really actionable blogging tips with me.

If you are looking for an accountability buddy blogging wise feel free to ping me.

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