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

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

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Post by gwern »

gwern wrote: post #8

This is a question which seems to come up regularly: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... I have a Twitter thread where people have made a number of suggestions ( https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1092221945427517440 ), and my own website is often mentioned - minimalist, fast, pretty, and also with a number of interesting & unus…

Also of interest, since text usually means minimalist: https://sjmulder.nl/en/textonly.html (see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20998256 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17787816 )

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

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Post by Havoc »

qwerty456127 wrote: post #26
orbOfOrthanc wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hmmmm Wordpress...

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

And then deal with their ecosystem of plugins that all try to sell you stuff.

Busy figuring out my own site and very certain that there will be no Wordpress involved

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

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Post by Havoc »

sdan wrote: post #30
giancarlostoro wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

Thats cool. Thanks

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

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Post by qwerty456127 »

Havoc wrote: post #64
qwerty456127 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

And then deal with their ecosystem of plugins that all try to sell you stuff. Busy figuring out my own site and very certain that there will be no Wordpress involved

Indeed.

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

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Post by Terretta »

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.

Privacy policy modal on a blog?

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

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Post by giancarlostoro »

Terretta wrote: post #68
giancarlostoro wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Privacy policy modal on a blog?

I did like that it defaults to spying turned off.

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

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Post by giancarlostoro »

sdan wrote: post #30
giancarlostoro wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

Thanks for the share, I didn't realize you could use Cloudflare workers for this too.
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