My personal blog: https://boring-guy.sh/ I don't publish frequently, but when I do, I aim to cover underrepresented topics.
I really dig your portrait.
Thank you, this is a self-portrait of me during a moment of boredom during the lockdown in 2020.
Ask HN: Share your personal site
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Re: Ask HN: Share your personal site
#62Here's mine!
I've just started blogging and it has been a great way for me to consolidate new things I've picked up into easily digestable articles. The blog is very simple. It's built with Hugo and a modified instance of Congo[0] and is hosted by Cloudflare Pages for free.
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#64I'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?"
That reading speed (in words / day) is mostly a byproduct of wanting to track start/end dates and a word count, so I get speed "for free". I don't actually look at it much, but it's an interesting proxy for "rough interest level".
It is funny how much variation there is between books/genres though! The sentence complexity and variety definitely comes into play here.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
Neat! Thanks for that context.
Re: Ask HN: Share your personal site
#66https://blainsmith.com
Good content, you might want to add some padding on the left and right to make it more readable
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#67Mine: 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.
I really like your sidenodes! They play nicely on mobile too, which is impressive. I always notice how much empty space there is on the desktop view for mine, but I don't want to clutter the page too much for non-huge monitors.
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#68https://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 entr…
I like your page layout/theme a lot. It's very readable and the tags/emoji make elements pop out nicely.
Re: Ask HN: Share your personal site
#69Here's mine: bcmullins.github.io I mostly write about research and reading. Here are some recent posts: Interesting books from 2022: https://bcmullins.github.io/interesting-books-2022/ Interesting articles from 2022: https://bcmullins.github.io/interesting-articles-2022/ Foreign Affairs at 100: https://bcmullins.github.io/foreign-affairs-100/
I wrote about what I read in 2022 too[0], you went waaay deeper than I did though, I added How Carrots Won the Trojan War to my goodreads!
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#70https://taylor.town Here are some essays I'm particularly fond of: - https://taylor.town/synthetic-intelligence - https://taylor.town/to-your-grave - https://taylor.town/eschew-the-new - https://taylor.town/pick-practical-principles - https://taylor.town/10-minutes - https://taylor.town/beware-the-grind
Hey Taylor! Good looking site- The minimal theming feels very clean. 2 suggestions jumped out:
1. The font size on homepage is small, especially for the two columns of dates. I can't really read them from across my desk (even on a big monitor). It's also not clear what the dates represent- maybe created and updated dates for each post?
2. The dates aren't present on the post pages themselves, so someone landing directly on a post won't know how old it is.