Ask HN: What are some examples of well-designed personal sites? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are some examples of well-designed personal sites?

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Post by giancarlostoro » Sun, Dec 08, 2019, 7:47 PM UTC

owens99 wrote: post #2

Alternative question: really fast and SEO optimized personal sites?

https://pasztor.at/blog/building-your-own-cdn

This is a great one. Basically you want a CDN for fast. He also embeds the b64 of images as well.

Re: Ask HN: What are some examples of well-designed personal sites?

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Post by orbOfOrthanc » Sun, Dec 08, 2019, 7:48 PM UTC

112012123 wrote: post #20

http://glenweyl.com/

Hmmmm Wordpress...

Re: Ask HN: What are some examples of well-designed personal sites?

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Post by RcouF1uZ4gsC » Sun, Dec 08, 2019, 7:49 PM UTC

johndcook.com

The blog posts are amazing and I have learned so much from that. At the same time they have convinced me of Dr. Cook’s knowledge and if I was looking for a consultant in these matters, he would be at the top of my list.

Re: Ask HN: What are some examples of well-designed personal sites?

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Post by qwerty456127 » Sun, Dec 08, 2019, 7:50 PM UTC

112012123 wrote: post #20

http://glenweyl.com/

Is the site meant to be a joke? The bio under the name sounds like suggesting that.

Re: Ask HN: What are some examples of well-designed personal sites?

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Dec 08, 2019, 7:51 PM UTC

orbOfOrthanc wrote: post #15

nprz wrote: post #10

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Looks a little broken on my iPhone XS (13.2.3)

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Re: Ask HN: What are some examples of well-designed personal sites?

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Post by qwerty456127 » Sun, Dec 08, 2019, 7:51 PM UTC

orbOfOrthanc wrote: post #22

112012123 wrote: post #20

http://glenweyl.com/

Hmmmm Wordpress...

With Wordpress you can buy a cool design in a supermarket.

Re: Ask HN: What are some examples of well-designed personal sites?

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Post by adventured » Sun, Dec 08, 2019, 7:52 PM UTC

lornemalvo wrote: post #3

https://strml.net

Very well done, although it starts slow (thought it was going to be just the initial simple text).

Like others I had a problem with the page cert (GitHub cert). Going to http://strml.net fixed it on the redirect to https://www.strml.net (which is using a Letsencrypt cert for www.strml.net)

Re: Ask HN: What are some examples of well-designed personal sites?

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Post by ReDeiPirati » Sun, Dec 08, 2019, 7:53 PM UTC

Imho this is seriously amazing: https://dynamicwebpaige.github.io/info/

Re: Ask HN: What are some examples of well-designed personal sites?

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Post by giancarlostoro » Sun, Dec 08, 2019, 7:54 PM UTC

I really liked Joe Armstrongs GitHub blog here:

https://joearms.github.io/

He wanted something that would enable anybody to PR his Wiki and wasnt at the mercy of a server side static site generator engine since the GH one screwed up his links for his former blog. Its simple and works mostly on the client side and gives you an exportable file.

Armstrong passed away sometime back sadly and my hope is that GitHub maintains his blog undisturbed. He had a beautiful way of explaining concurrency and software issues that I think anybody could follow. Also for those unaware he was one of the creators of the Erlang programming language.

Re: Ask HN: What are some examples of well-designed personal sites?

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Post by sdan » Sun, Dec 08, 2019, 7:55 PM UTC

giancarlostoro wrote: post #21

owens99 wrote: post #2

Alternative question: really fast and SEO optimized personal sites?

https://pasztor.at/blog/building-your-own-cdn This is a great one. Basically you want a CDN for fast. He also embeds the b64 of images as well.

Or you can build your own CDN with Cloudflare Workers: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/tutorials/configur...

Did it with https://sdan.io/cdn (I host a ton of files so my other websites can quickly access them) an example: http://sdan.cc/gradient.jpg (may be a bit slow... it's 1MB)