Ask HN: What are the best-designed personal blogs you’ve come across?

I’m about to start building a site for a personal blog, so I’d love to get inspiration from your favorites -- looking only at the design and not the content. Here are a couple of mine: https://joegebbia.com/dearairbnb and https://kk.org/thetechnium/68-bits-of-unsolicited-advice/.

Best is entirely subjective. ;) I'm quite fond of my own(1), but it's pretty basic and heavily modified/hacked together from a very minimal wordpress theme.

Let's start with the two you mentioned: looking at the source code, one's actually built from a squarespace theme, and the other is likewise built from a wordpress theme, feels like an slightly older one given it's not mobile responsive. That's not a knock, by the way - sometimes you want an audience that don't use phones or deliberately flock to the retro vibe.

I don't know your budget or capability to self-code, but browsing squarespace's themes would be what I would recommend if you have a higher budget, and likewise doing the same with wordpress if you're operating on a shoestring mindset. There's some gorgeous ones on both, though squarespace is far more curated and caters to a more modern/slick looking audience and clientele.

(1) (SFW) art log: http://log.kradeelav.com/

https://poohitan.com (in Ukrainian but there are several posts in English)

Can't believe I didn't mention this one. Definitely one of the best.

I really like this one, thanks for posting it.