There are so many cool personal sites out there. I'm constantly amazed by the quality and creativity.
I publish now from dropbox. Ofc using my own tool https://docs.montaigne.io. It's already helped me do add content more freequently
A Love Letter to Personal Websites
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#32Can anyone give advice about how you built your personal website(s?) while having strong professional interests in multiple areas? I’d be really grateful to see an example. I have a career in tech and also a career in music. My professional networks in these areas don’t overlap. I don’t think everyone responds positively to the dual career thing, although some definitely do. Just make two sites and don’t link them? G…
I did something a similar except instead of music I'm a huge theme park fan and wanted a portion of my personal site to be dedicated to my trips (instead of hosting the pictures on Facebook or the like) so I decided to separate out the roller coaster portion of my persona and put it at a subdomain of my personal site (https://coasters.joshimbriani.com for those curious) whereas my main site remains mostly tech focused (https://joshimbriani.com). I've been pretty pleased with the setup for now seeing as how I can nerd out about coasters without alienating the other half of my (non-existent) audience
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#33Finally bought myself a personal domain but am now currently agonizing over how to design the damn thing, let alone what to actually put on there!
I recently started a blog to write about my experience learning Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. One of the best choices I made was using the bundled WordPress theme, twentynineteen, and not worrying about design. It's been pretty liberating and for now I'm just focused on content. I'll revisit the design at some point but worrying about the design in the beginning is almost like not learning to play guitar because you don't have a band name yet. Just start putting content up, the design will or won't come. Good luck!!
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#34I think (hope) in the next years we will see an increase of personal sites. With products like Ghost, it's easier for everyone to make one and it doesn't involve a ton of coding. You can focus on the content and own everything. I wonder if we'll be able to connect these personal sites together like a crowdsourced Medium?
Edit: I'm talking about self hosted Ghost
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
You could always start old-school Mosaic (with the tiniest bit of HTML5): Rafuino's site Rafuino's site Welcome! Under Construction It won't necessarily be displayed as serifed type, with raster aliasing, on gray, but you could CSS that in. :)
You forgot and (and some sick midi tunes)
sadly doesn't work anymore :(
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#36There are so many cool personal sites out there. I'm constantly amazed by the quality and creativity. I publish now from dropbox. Ofc using my own tool https://docs.montaigne.io . It's already helped me do add content more freequently
This looks cool, thank you very much for sharing. However, I tried signing up and got an error message from Dropbox: "This app has reached its user limit. Contact the app developer and ask them to use the Dropbox API App Console to increase their app's user limit."
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#37I think (hope) in the next years we will see an increase of personal sites. With products like Ghost, it's easier for everyone to make one and it doesn't involve a ton of coding. You can focus on the content and own everything. I wonder if we'll be able to connect these personal sites together like a crowdsourced Medium? Edit: I'm talking about self hosted Ghost
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#38One of the downsides to having a personal site, as a developer, is that some people will expect it to be a professional portfolio and showcase. So, there's pressure to keep updating it, to at least hint at your use of the latest Web frameworks, awareness of SEO/promotion, etc. My own personal site's current look is pretty much an early CSS approximation of my old `table`-based layout, and is now mainly to preserve UR…
"The cobbler's children go barefoot."
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#39One of the downsides to having a personal site, as a developer, is that some people will expect it to be a professional portfolio and showcase. So, there's pressure to keep updating it, to at least hint at your use of the latest Web frameworks, awareness of SEO/promotion, etc. My own personal site's current look is pretty much an early CSS approximation of my old `table`-based layout, and is now mainly to preserve UR…
Cheers on the note “my professional work isn’t here”. Makes me wonder if I should be more explicit like that. I have to side with you on this. And I do use those modern frameworks at work. My goal was to keep mine working coherently in Lynx, but uses some JS for syntax highlighting and a click event or two that degrade well enough. It’s also an awful hacked together static-ish blog in Go behind Nginx. I was working o…
I spent years rebuilding my site several times over, trying to appear as professional and modern as possible.
A while back I got fed up, spent about 15-20 minutes writing some basic html, and came up with a simple page. I haven't looked back since. https://danielvaughn.github.io/info/
Re: A Love Letter to Personal Websites
#40One of the downsides to having a personal site, as a developer, is that some people will expect it to be a professional portfolio and showcase. So, there's pressure to keep updating it, to at least hint at your use of the latest Web frameworks, awareness of SEO/promotion, etc. My own personal site's current look is pretty much an early CSS approximation of my old `table`-based layout, and is now mainly to preserve UR…
For what one person's opinion is worth, I quite like the look of old-style text-and-hyperlink websites, so long as there's something interesting to read on them.
A canonical example: http://bactra.org/