A Love Letter to Personal Websites

Post by movedx » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 10:12 PM UTC

a3n wrote: post #49

movedx wrote: post #30

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> 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 do not believe video will come to dominate such that text and audio won't still have a place. I almost never follow links to video, because you can't scan them for relevance and quickly bail.

Post by Rerarom » Thu, Sep 19, 2019, 11:19 AM UTC

ht_th wrote: post #63

Rerarom wrote: post #59

At least in academia the tradition is still going strong.

Unfortunately, with the advent of electronic learning management systems and corporate content management systems in universities that are as much as required to be used, this seems to be declining fast. Currently I work as a lecturer at the same university I studied at twenty years ago. Then, almost every teacher and researcher did have their own website behind "~username" on the open web. For most it was just a lis…

Post by forgotmypw3 » Fri, Sep 20, 2019, 8:53 PM UTC

btbytes wrote: post #12

neilv wrote: post #6

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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. :)

This is good advice. I'm collecting websites like this ("handmade") here - https://www.btbytes.com/websites.html My own website is compiled together with a python script, but aesthetically close to what you describe.

Post by podviaznikov » Wed, Sep 25, 2019, 6:29 AM UTC

ambivalents wrote: post #36

podviaznikov wrote: post #31

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

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."