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Re: Ask HN: Share your personal site

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Post by ckz »

andrewmunsell wrote: post #41

I used to actually blog, but I ended up neglecting my site after I got a full-time job since I wanted to spend my personal time doing other things. But, I do credit my website heavily for getting me where I am and I always highly recommend blogging and having an online portfolio to anyone trying to get into the tech industry. Fun fact: A long time ago I had a blog post/rant about reCAPTCHA end up on the HN home page,…

It's funny, your name jumped out immediately as someone I've read. Took me a minute to place it, but I'm guessing probably back from your WP7/Win8 days as I was very interested in the space at the time. Definitely recall reading your iOS7 design post too. So, just wanted to say thanks for posting this here as it's fun to see it all again!

Re: Ask HN: Share your personal site

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Post by schmudde »

xavdid wrote: post #25

I'm proud of a lot of things about my site, but maybe the domain most of all: https://xavd.id It's written with Gatsby and hosted on Netlify (which handles the build step without configuration). I picked Gatsby because I wanted to use react/preprocessors, but also wanted to be able to "just write" (and MDX lets me do both of those). It also has a vibrant plugin ecosystem and is JS based (vs Ruby, which my previous si…

Interesting that you also track reading speed. My speed differential between different types of of books always surprises me a bit. Usually it's something like, "Wait, I'm only 20% through this book and I've been reading it for two months?"

Re: Ask HN: Share your personal site

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Post by schmudde »

Mine: https://schmud.de/

A humanities take on tech. I'm always nervous how the sidenotes render on other webviews. But my favorite part is the automatically generated historical timeline (https://schmud.de/timeline.html). It is essentially a meaningfully different ordering of the same writing.

Re: Ask HN: Share your personal site

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Post by surprisetalk »

schmudde wrote: post #53
xavdid wrote: post #25

I'm proud of a lot of things about my site, but maybe the domain most of all: https://xavd.id It's written with Gatsby and hosted on Netlify (which handles the build step without configuration). I picked Gatsby because I wanted to use react/preprocessors, but also wanted to be able to "just write" (and MDX lets me do both of those). It also has a vibrant plugin ecosystem and is JS based (vs Ruby, which my previous si…

Interesting that you also track reading speed. My speed differential between different types of of books always surprises me a bit. Usually it's something like, "Wait, I'm only 20% through this book and I've been reading it for two months?"

Hey David! It's Taylor from https://taylor.town

For those who don't know, @schmudde runs a blog called Beyond the Frame: https://schmud.de

He also has an excellent Strange Loop talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU6NvkkF4Xk

Re: Ask HN: Share your personal site

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Post by activatedgeek »

https://sanyamkapoor.com

With my most recent iteration, I have started using my website more as a mental decluttering tool than a show-tell medium. The wesbite is a bunch of markdown files spiced up with Next.js and my first attempt at structured navigation. I keep a similar private one.

I've now been rethinking of reorganizing into a flat heirarchy + what I like to call "theme portals" - essentially big picture entrypoints into details. This avoids a long list of scattered blog posts. The orrganization style of clean overarching themes like tech/math etc. isn't working for me.

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