Live data from Hacker News

Have a personal web site

writing.markchristian.org

141–150 of 436 posts

Re: Have a personal web site

#141
post #113

What are people’s thoughts on an ideal personal domain name? firstlast.com seems the obvious choice, but it gets pompous when used for things you’re the author of but not the subject of, like “andrewredford.com/my-js-library” or “andrewredford.com/notepad”. fml.com (initials), if you can score a good TLD? flast.com? Create an unrelated but brand-able name like vegandev.com?

I chose last.me. Looks neat, it's a single meaningful word, and first@last.me looks pretty good too.

Re: Have a personal web site

#142
Agree with the article, it does not cost too much effort and gives you online presence.

I am using gohugo + netlify, tried gatsby, jekyll as well. If you are interested how to setup a personal web-site - I've an article for you: https://medium.com/@tarasmatsyk/how-to-kick-off-a-blog-in-2-...

Re: Have a personal web site

#143

>“You were a complete ghost online.”, they said Okay, so what? Is it a blogger or promoter position? Otherwise, why should you have any visible online presence? The whole thing is about one guy who decided to make a personal website and how he made it, that's fine. But why call it "You should have a personal website" without any reasoning/examples for others? I don't get it.

Because others will. It's an arms race.

Re: Have a personal web site

#144
post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is that a bad idea? If you can pass the interview stages and the only difference is perception then I say go for it.

Stealing someone identity is, by definition, a bad idea.

> is, by definition, a bad idea.

So what is the definition?

This is certainly legal.

Re: Have a personal web site

#145

In Finland it is illegal to google for applicant's online presence, because of the possibility of judging the candidate because of misidentification. You have to have applicant's permission to that. And I am glad, because one of my name doubles isn't very representative person according to their online presence.

I have the opposite problem, I share the name with someone else working in the tech field who is academically and professionally my senior. I frequently get emails and phone calls from recruiters offering positions with a salary up to 200k more than I'm expecting at my level because they think I teach at Stanford

You're undervaluing yourself.

Re: Have a personal web site

#146

In Finland it is illegal to google for applicant's online presence, because of the possibility of judging the candidate because of misidentification. You have to have applicant's permission to that. And I am glad, because one of my name doubles isn't very representative person according to their online presence.

The only page where my full name appears in on my LinkedIn page; I tried searching for it, both on bing and duckduckgo my LinkedIn page was on the second page of results, with a handfull of LinkedIn profiles I've never seen and which are not linked to my profile beforehand. Google got it as the first result, though.

Re: Have a personal web site

#147

"how to design web sites that respect the notch on iPhone X and friends" i'm a notch disrespecter

So is Microsoft and are many people, after all of his homophobic, transphobic, and racist remarks. https://mashable.com/article/minecraft-removes-notch-referen... https://twitter.com/Nya_Flrs/status/881522593353809920/photo... https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/minecraft-notch-transpho... https://www.theroot.com/minecraft-creator-goes-full-white-pr... https://variety.com/2019/gaming/news/minecraft-creator-exclu...

Except there's nothing homophobic, transphobic or racist through those links.

Re: Have a personal web site

#148

The saddest part about personal websites now is that if someone googles your name, your presence on social media sites, an about page of a project or company you worked for, or any news outlet article where your name is mentioned will rank first and ahead of any personal website. I understand if one's full name combination is too common to show every personal website, but I feel like if a unique name is googled, or t…

I can provide a counter example to this. Searching for my full name (and for many years my first name) has always resulted in my personal website being the top link.

It's not SEO, it's just age. I am an old man with an old school website that's happened to have been up for a long time.

Re: Have a personal web site

#149
post #113

What are people’s thoughts on an ideal personal domain name? firstlast.com seems the obvious choice, but it gets pompous when used for things you’re the author of but not the subject of, like “andrewredford.com/my-js-library” or “andrewredford.com/notepad”. fml.com (initials), if you can score a good TLD? flast.com? Create an unrelated but brand-able name like vegandev.com?

I got a devoweled version of my middle name, four letters. Mostly just so I could have my own domain name for email, to get away from google, but I've also started putting up content. Right now it's just recipes, but I'll add other stuff if I find it interesting or important. I do very basic hand-coded HTML, because I'm sick of bloated websites.

I'm not making my site for anyone other than me. Curious people who look at my email address can visit my domain if they want to.

Re: Have a personal web site

#150

The saddest part about personal websites now is that if someone googles your name, your presence on social media sites, an about page of a project or company you worked for, or any news outlet article where your name is mentioned will rank first and ahead of any personal website. I understand if one's full name combination is too common to show every personal website, but I feel like if a unique name is googled, or t…

I was going to say that you can combat this by simply linking to your website from all these profiles but it turns out that virtually all social media sites `rel="nofollow"` homepage links. Which in itself is a pretty sleazy tactic (sure, the official reason is to combat spam).
Post reply on HN