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Re: A Love Letter to Personal Websites

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Post by nullwarp » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 1:47 PM UTC

jimktrains2 wrote: post #71

Ive found myself spending a bit more time on YouTube recently and I've been curious as to why. I've come to the conclusion that I much enjoy consuming something that someone, or at least small group of people, care about and find that a lot of good information can be shared. (It also helps in that regard that I've been watching wood ajd metal working channels.) So, why not websites and just ddg or Google subjects? Th…

I've found many great sites recently using https://wiby.me/ which definitely feels like a search engine of old

Re: A Love Letter to Personal Websites

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Post by nemosaltat » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 2:01 PM UTC

tenaciousDaniel wrote: post #77

scandinavegan wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I get a scary-looking warning in Firefox when I click that link. It says: "Someone could be trying to impersonate the site and you should not continue. Websites prove their identity via certificates. Firefox does not trust danielvaughn.github.io because its certificate issuer is unknown, the certificate is self-signed, or the server is not sending the correct intermediate certificates. Error code: SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_I…

Hm, it's just a Github Page, I'm not self hosting. Maybe something went wrong with github's cert.

You can (should?) change your github io settings to use HTTPS

Edit: never-mind I read back up and you definitely are.

Re: A Love Letter to Personal Websites

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Post by pier25 » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 2:37 PM UTC

whitehouse3 wrote: post #65

pier25 wrote: post #5

For the past 4 years I've been too busy and have only written a couple of articles on Medium[1]. Thankfully I'm ending my current job which has consumed my time, energy, and soul for far too long and I want to get into the habit of writing again. This time on my personal site, not on Medium. [1] https://medium.com/@Pier

I’m glad to hear we’ll see more of your writing. I dove deep into front end frameworks after a lot of research last year. Your clear and thoughtful comments about React helped me a lot. Congrats on making a positive career change.

Thanks for your nice comment, I really appreciate it.

Re: A Love Letter to Personal Websites

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Post by snorkasaurus » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 2:53 PM UTC

scandinavegan wrote: post #78

tenaciousDaniel wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hm, it's just a Github Page, I'm not self hosting. Maybe something went wrong with github's cert.

Could be, or I have an over-protective Firefox. I still have the same issue with the link.

Works for me. Firefox on Android with uBlock Origin and DDG.

Re: A Love Letter to Personal Websites

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Post by jimktrains2 » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 3:05 PM UTC

nullwarp wrote: post #81

jimktrains2 wrote: post #71

Ive found myself spending a bit more time on YouTube recently and I've been curious as to why. I've come to the conclusion that I much enjoy consuming something that someone, or at least small group of people, care about and find that a lot of good information can be shared. (It also helps in that regard that I've been watching wood ajd metal working channels.) So, why not websites and just ddg or Google subjects? Th…

I've found many great sites recently using https://wiby.me/ which definitely feels like a search engine of old

Thanks! I'll have to give it a shot.

Re: A Love Letter to Personal Websites

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Post by jaclaz » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 3:43 PM UTC

nullwarp wrote: post #81

jimktrains2 wrote: post #71

Ive found myself spending a bit more time on YouTube recently and I've been curious as to why. I've come to the conclusion that I much enjoy consuming something that someone, or at least small group of people, care about and find that a lot of good information can be shared. (It also helps in that regard that I've been watching wood ajd metal working channels.) So, why not websites and just ddg or Google subjects? Th…

I've found many great sites recently using https://wiby.me/ which definitely feels like a search engine of old

As a side note, and JFYI, there is seemingly from the ashes of DMOZ:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ

a new kid on the block:

https://curlie.org/

Re: A Love Letter to Personal Websites

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Post by madhadron » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 5:54 PM UTC

Rafuino wrote: post #3

Finally 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!

This is an easy paralysis to fall into. Unless you know you need something more, just start by getting some useful content up in plain HTML.

Re: A Love Letter to Personal Websites

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Post by madhadron » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 5:57 PM UTC

crustacean wrote: post #24

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…

If you aren't trying to use your site as a sales and marketing platform, then just put them on different pages. The only reason you wouldn't put up all this stuff on the same overall site is if you are trying to maintain focus to optimize a conversion funnel.

Re: A Love Letter to Personal Websites

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Post by pureliquidhw » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 6:25 PM UTC

iCarrot wrote: post #70

mandarg wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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/

Obligatory motherf*cking website saga: https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ https://evenbettermotherfucking.website/ https://bestmotherfucking.website/

Blocked at work for adult content. Whoops!

Re: A Love Letter to Personal Websites

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Post by floatingatoll » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 7:45 PM UTC

If you want to make a website accessible to any human but essentially invisible to search engines, configure basic authentication to require and accept any username and/or password, and then set the auth description to “Enter anything to continue”.

Human beings will enter anything and read your article, with the browser caching the credentials for a while, but the vast majority of search engines will treat the 401 as “indexing not permitted under law”, to a degree that your site might not even be returned as a result at all.

Robots.txt doesn’t have the same effect and is soundly ignored by many malicious/uncaring web spiders and tools, unlike 401.

It seems like the smallest thing in the world, but it’s why forums that require you to login to search are so safe against harassment - as long as they block web spidering!