Ask HN: Share your personal site

Nothing much, some thoughts on startups, some development tutorials and personal thoughts

I write about old Apple computers and also other stuff I like. I’m also doing a writing challenge this year, one new short story for every week, inspired by a quote from Ray Bradbury:

https://f52.charlieharrington.com

Static HTML/CSS/JS generated by custom python scripts. No tracking, though I guess the server gets IP addresses and HTTP headers.

I made it to host a web novel I wrote. I wanted to do it without JavaScript, but HTML and CSS weren't sufficient to generate responsive sidenotes that lined up with the text on desktop, and collapsed into popovers at smaller widths.

I wrote the novel in a traditional word processor, then wrote an App to convert each chapter to HTML. The app helped to format the notes and read the text using text-to-speech to help pace my proofreading. The python scripts then take the output of this app and insert headers/footers and generate RSS entries.

I've also started a blog section on the site. There's only one post there now, but I have a few ides for more posts I want to add.

Over the past 17 years I've moved from self developed blogging systems, blogspot, self hosted Wordpress now onto JAM stack deployed on cloudflare. I used to develop and write about Age of Empires and Age of Mythology Modding but more recently: I write about distributed systems, large scale software design and some machine learning and data-structures/algorithms.