Ask HN: Share your personal site

A similar post was done a few months ago and it was pretty fun so why not do it again ? share you're personal sites below and let others critique you!

I'll start with mine https://www.yusuf.fyi/

Sure! Here's mine: https://www.justus.ws

I've had this one for a couple years now. I've had more polished-looking sites in the past, but this time I wanted to emphasize having fun with it and not being too precious - this allows me to update it without worrying about everything being perfect.

It's a static site built by Eleventy. I edit/build it locally, and then when I push up to Github it's rebuilt there by a Github action. Details here: https://www.justus.ws/how/

Edit: An interesting tidbit: my avatar in the upper-left corner blinks on a random timer thanks to a very simple bit of JS[0]. However, it exhibits a strange and unexpected behaviour: if you don't interact with the webpage for a while, my avatar "goes to sleep"; e.g. the eyes close until you interact with it again.

I love this, but I don't know why it happens! I get that the browser probably pauses scripts after a time, but why would it always end up with its eyes closed, especially when the eyes are only supposed to close for 150ms at a time?

[0]:

  async function blinktimer() {
    async function blink() {
      var src = $(" .avatar ").attr('src');
      console.log("BLINK!");
      $(" .avatar ").attr('src','/images/dadi-avatar_blink.png');
      await sleep(150);
      $(" .avatar ").attr('src',src);
    }
    while (true) {
      var delay = Math.floor((Math.random() * 11000) + 0);
      await sleep(delay);
      blink();
    }
  };

- https://www.justus.ws/js/scripts.js

Looks very good, I love the serif font!

I read the first article you mentioned and I am bookmarking the others for when I have more time

great! seems very well made, the active button state reminds me of a guy called bill wurtz [0]

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZUcpVmEHuk