Ask HN: Most beautiful personal blog UI you have ever seen? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Most beautiful personal blog UI you have ever seen?

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Post by Tomotoes » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 3:02 AM UTC

Not sure if it counts as “most beautiful”, but I spent a lot of time tinkering with my own blog UI and interactions:

https://simonaking.com

Re: Ask HN: Most beautiful personal blog UI you have ever seen?

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Post by jackyli02 » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 3:10 AM UTC

https://lynnandtonic.com/ is really well-built and has a distinctive style. Recommend checking it out!

Re: Ask HN: Most beautiful personal blog UI you have ever seen?

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Post by vivzkestrel » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 3:10 AM UTC

- S-TIER blogs are those that are animated, visual, interactive and absolutely blow your mind off

- A-TIER are highly informative and you ll learn something

- opinion blogs at the absolute bottom of the tier list because everyone everywhere ll always have an opinion about everything and my life is too short to be reading all that

- these are the S-TIER ones on my system

- https://growingswe.com/blog

- https://ciechanow.ski/archives/

- https://mlu-explain.github.io/

- https://seeing-theory.brown.edu/index.html#firstPage

- https://svg-tutorial.com/

- https://www.lumafield.com/scan-of-the-month/health-wearables

- these are the BEST of the BEST, you ll be blown away opening each page is how good they are. i am thinking of creating a bookmark manager that uses my criteria above and runs across every damn blog link ever posted on HN to categorize them as S-TIER, A-TIER, opinion and so on

Re: Ask HN: Most beautiful personal blog UI you have ever seen?

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Post by gepeake » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 3:38 AM UTC

I just finished building mine! https://gpeake.com

Re: Ask HN: Most beautiful personal blog UI you have ever seen?

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Post by yen223 » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 3:40 AM UTC

The typography in Maggie Appleton's blog is unparalleled

https://maggieappleton.com/

Re: Ask HN: Most beautiful personal blog UI you have ever seen?

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Post by never_inline » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 4:25 AM UTC

* gwern

* lesswrong

Re: Ask HN: Most beautiful personal blog UI you have ever seen?

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Post by aeldidi » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 4:31 AM UTC

I'm gonna use this as an opportunity to get some feedback on mine: https://ayman.eldidi.org/articles/unicode-identifiers/

Re: Ask HN: Most beautiful personal blog UI you have ever seen?

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Post by Cider9986 » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 5:00 AM UTC

There are some great looking websites here! I like https://vmfunc.re/

Re: Ask HN: Most beautiful personal blog UI you have ever seen?

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Post by ykl » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 5:18 AM UTC

One I like is Tom Macwright’s blog [1], which somewhat famously loads insanely fast thanks to having a sort of the web equivalent of a brutalist design while still looking nice [2].

[1] https://macwright.com/

[2] https://macwright.com/2016/05/03/the-featherweight-website

Re: Ask HN: Most beautiful personal blog UI you have ever seen?

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Post by absoluteunit1 » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 5:19 AM UTC

wonger_ wrote: post #5

Tasteful: https://colly.com/ Artsy: https://anhvn.com/ Simple yet elegant: https://www.lkhrs.com/ and https://arun.is/blog/ Maximalist: https://henry.codes/ and https://garden.bradwoods.io/ and https://blog.maximeheckel.com/ Old-school / indie web: https://ribo.zone/ Text mode / ASCII art: https://adelfaure.net/ Typography: http://davidcole.me/ and https://www.petemillspaugh.com/ I have more. You can keep rolling the…

Some of these sites - wow. I literally can’t fall asleep right now (reading this in bed) scrolling through all these. So many good resources. Thank you for sharing. This is why I love HN