Ask HN: Share your personal site

https://paco.me

It's a take-a-file, leave-a-file thing, running in my pantry. No file size limit or anything. Seems to be mostly pdfs - my favorite is the snail farming guide.

(If you think you can hack this, you absolutely can. Please don't.)

Seems like a really simple site that uses a mix of browser defaults with light CSS enhancements, but I put about 13k words of thought into it:

https://seirdy.one/2020/11/23/website-best-practices.html

It's really hard to get a site to work well on a Also has mirrors to a Tor hidden Web service and a Gemini capsule, all hosted on the same VPS.

I like the "small web" and joined a few webrings (and Gemini orbits), and try to make this static site a member of the IndieWeb.

Bookmarks are generated from my bookmarks manager, WIP music ratings from MPD coming soon.

An incomplete list of use-cases I tried to accommodate:

- Screen readers

- Switch access

- Keyboard navigation, with the Tab key or caret navigation

- Navigating with hand-tremors

- Content extraction (e.g. “Reader Mode”)

- Low-bandwidth connections

- Unreliable, lossy connections

- Metered connections

- Hostile networks

- Downloading offline copies

- Very narrow viewports (much narrower than a phablet)

- Mobile devices in landscape mode

- Frequent window-resizers (e.g. users of tiled-window setups)

- Printouts, especially when paper and ink are rationed (common in schools)

- Textual browsers

- Uncommon graphical browsers

- the Tor Browser (separate from “uncommon browsers” because of how “safest” mode is often incompatible with progressive enhancement and graceful degradation)

- Disabling JavaScript (overlaps with the Tor Browser)

- Non-default color palettes

- Aggressive content blocking (e.g. blocking all third-party content, frames, images, and cookies)

- User-selected custom fonts

- Stylesheet removal, alteration, or replacement

- Machine translation to right-to-left languages

(Edit) It’s a Wordpress install. I’ve spent a fair bit of time contemplating a move to a static site generator. I know it’s an unpopular opinion, but I really like Wordpress. I find the editor is easy and it gets out of my way.