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You forgot and (and some sick midi tunes) Thanks to CSS animations, you can recreate and . I use it to recreate the Amiga's Guru Meditation Error when I'm debugging web sites.
Loving the irony of having links to Instagram and Twitter in the footer of that post :P
Can 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 wrote my site by hand in plain HTML, just over 2 decades ago, have added some content but have not radically changed it. Anything that's more than 1 level deep pulls up a PDF of something or other. Maintenance is via FTP.
It still works on every browser, phone, OS, etc.
More than two years ago, I wrote this: […] What do I mean with “the threat of Facebook”? In the old days, before today’s large “social media” sites, people made their own web pages on places like GeoCities or on simpler social-media-like sites like LiveJournal, etc. Those sites all had content and linked to each other. This is the web which the Google search engine and its algorithm was meant to find things in, and i…
Something even more pernicious about social media: if you build an audience there, you're trapped. You can easily convince yourself a lot of people care about what you say right up until you link to something more substantial off the silo. The ActivityPub fediverse is a lot better about this, but even there I might get one visit to a linked page for every ten boosts. Getting people to look at a website in 2019 is har…
With those two purposes in mind, just write, when you feel like it.
But even on clearnet, promoting personal websites is nontrivial. How does one do it?
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It sounds like you're talking about one specific kind of content: educational material. That's not what I make or have any interest in making. And there is no way I'd get on camera even if I wanted to do video. I do not believe video will come to dominate such that text and audio won't still have a place. I personally can't get much out of most non-fiction videos, and I know I'm not alone. I didn't even watch more th…
> It sounds like you're talking about one specific kind of content: educational material I personally make educational videos, but that's not what dominates on YouTube :-) > I do not believe video will come to dominate such that text and audio won't still have a place. They will have a place, for sure. Podcasts are still rising in popularity - they're a great platform for transferring knowledge and value and also deb…
I almost never follow links to video, because you can't scan them for relevance and quickly bail.
One 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…