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Ask HN: What are some examples of well-designed personal sites?
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Re: Ask HN: What are some examples of well-designed personal sites?
#12https://www.gwern.net
This literally looks like LaTeX
You say that like it's a bad thing!
But the TeX math is interesting to discuss: it turns out that you can skip the usual multi-second download/parse/render/reflow workflow of MathJax JS libraries on a static website by preprocessing the final HTML pages using https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax-node . This gets you pretty much the best of all worlds: it renders instantly without JS, looks good, works cross-browser, and is dead-simple to set up as you just pipe into a tool. Definitely the best way I've found for static sites to render math.
Re: Ask HN: What are some examples of well-designed personal sites?
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
This literally looks like LaTeX
You say that like it's a bad thing! But the TeX math is interesting to discuss: it turns out that you can skip the usual multi-second download/parse/render/reflow workflow of MathJax JS libraries on a static website by preprocessing the final HTML pages using https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax-node . This gets you pretty much the best of all worlds: it renders instantly without JS, looks good, works cross-browser, an…
For the flippant style of my comment, it actually wasn’t intended as an insult. I quite like your approach.
Re: Ask HN: What are some examples of well-designed personal sites?
#14In my opinion, one of the best websites is brandur's (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=brandur).
Not a huge fan of the homepage, but the articles look sublime. Example: https://www.brandur.org/sortsupport-inet
Re: Ask HN: What are some examples of well-designed personal sites?
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Looks a little broken on my iPhone XS (13.2.3)
Re: Ask HN: What are some examples of well-designed personal sites?
#16Alternative question: really fast and SEO optimized personal sites?
I've gotten my site down to ~0.5s load time and rank for a number of tech SERPs, still get a few thousand visits from Google per day for 5-10 year old articles: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/
Re: Ask HN: What are some examples of well-designed personal sites?
#17I really like https://distill.pub 's design. Which is why I remastered it into a Ghost theme and put it on my blog: https://sdan.io/blog
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#18Re: Ask HN: What are some examples of well-designed personal sites?
#19In my opinion, one of the best websites is brandur's ( https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=brandur ). Not a huge fan of the homepage, but the articles look sublime. Example: https://www.brandur.org/sortsupport-inet
Damn. You’re quite right. Excellent typography and layout even on mobile. Thanks for sharing.