I'll start with mine https://www.yusuf.fyi/
It's written with Gatsby and hosted on Netlify (which handles the build step without configuration). I picked Gatsby because I wanted to use react/preprocessors, but also wanted to be able to "just write" (and MDX lets me do both of those). It also has a vibrant plugin ecosystem and is JS based (vs Ruby, which my previous site used; I don't write Ruby any longer).
I blog a few times a year, a mix of technical topics and media reviews. The blog is meant to be mostly text, but it being in React means I can drop in rich things, like support for hide-able spoilers and nice code blocks. I've optimized the layout for reading text (good font size, max-width, line-height), so hopefully it works!
Some favorite posts are:
- Python Dataclasses from Scratch: https://xavd.id/blog/post/python-dataclasses-from-scratch/
- My yearly media review. Here's 2021; 2022 should be up in the next few days: https://xavd.id/blog/post/favorite-media-2021/
Thanks for looking!
Nothing too fancy, just a static hugo site on github pages. I'm most happy with the search that I added, which all happens client-side. The index is only about 129 KB so I'll probably never hit a practical download size limit either. And because it's happening in the browser it's very responsive.
If anyone is curious about the details I also wrote about that here: https://lukesalamone.github.io/posts/rolling-my-own-blog-sea...
I've also written a good amount about chess lately, if anyone is interested in that. Specifically, the intersection of chess and AI, where I've been working on a new type of chess learning tool.
I'm pretty torn on having a separation between the notion of "posts" and "projects". I don't keep the project section up to date very often, and probably should remove it. Any thoughts/advice on this HN?
- Static site with no framework beyond basic PUG/SCSS.
- Uses no JS at all.
- Actually pretty readable on a monochrome Palm Pilot too, as far as modern HTML goes.
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My key post is my thought framework for ethical software design: https://calebk.com/articles/design-ethics
Have some fun ones on PalmOS UX and other experiments coming up, but unpublished for now. :)
I’ve used this site design for probably 6 years?
Today it’s a NextJS site on Vercel backed by markdown files (older pages) and Notion (newer pages). I’ve also built the same design with a Python SSG which was focused on one HTTP request per page, and before that a POSIX shell script I wrote focused on being as FreeBSD as possible.
I would like to share more knowledge on the site, but it’s in last place behind all my other life goals.
I’m a product designer who’s been blogging since around 2009. For several years I managed an online publication, Signal Tower. Then left it to become the host of the Designer News podcast. Some posts y’all might find interesting:
A Children’s Book Written and Illustrated by AI
https://solomon.io/childrens-story-written-illustrated-ai/
Improving Accessibility with Design Tokens
https://solomon.io/improving-accessibility-with-design-token...
Code School, 10 Years Later
My personal blog as well as a place to showcase the iOS & macOS apps I’m working on.
It’s statically generated with Hugo and, for the first time, I actually created the theme myself (based on the lightweight CSS framework Bulma). Being essentially just a bunch of SASS files, Bulma allowed me to easily cherry-pick only what I needed, extend and tweak as required and easily integrate it into the Hugo build pipeline.
Designing and developing the theme was a really cool experience because my background is mostly in C, C++ Objective C and Swift and this was the most serious “web project” I have done to date. I still prefer writing native apps but have definitely enjoyed this excursion into the world of SCSS, HTML and JS :)
Now if only I got around to actually blogging more regularly :D
Inspired by an iPad-style layout, along with some other personal sites I admire. Not too fancy, just a home for my photos and some (not very much) writing.
I mostly write about research and reading. Here are some recent posts:
Interesting books from 2022: https://bcmullins.github.io/interesting-books-2022/
Interesting articles from 2022: https://bcmullins.github.io/interesting-articles-2022/
Foreign Affairs at 100: https://bcmullins.github.io/foreign-affairs-100/
In the early days of covid lockdown I began a weekly page "Five Reads Friday" of recent internet finds for (old) colleagues from my (old) research lab. — and for anyone else who may be interested
Its still going. Todays 5RF (number 134) is at
https://learnbyexample.github.io/escapist-reviews/ - reviews about fantasy and sci-fi books I read, many are self-published as I read a lot on KU
My tech / software / dev blog - running since 2008. https://www.shogan.co.uk/
My Trail and ultra running blog - running a few years now: https://trailrunningforlife.com/
I have a couple of other sites for projects with my kids that we blog about, and some other smaller projects, both of those are static using Hugo.
A humanities take on tech. I'm always nervous how the sidenotes render on other webviews. But my favorite part is the automatically generated historical timeline (https://schmud.de/timeline.html). It is essentially a meaningfully different ordering of the same writing.
I've just started blogging and it has been a great way for me to consolidate new things I've picked up into easily digestable articles. The blog is very simple. It's built with Hugo and a modified instance of Congo[0] and is hosted by Cloudflare Pages for free.
If anyone here is interested in adding our widget to their site, please ping me (contact at beelinereader dot com) and I'd be happy to make this happen.
Here are various examples of HNers who have implemented our tech on their sites:
• https://jaack.me/2022-dati-previsioni-2023/
• https://programaudioseries.com/1-you-had-me-at-hello-world/
• https://wildcardpeople.com/what-is-a-wildcard-person
Other sites, including MIT Press Reader, have also implemented the tech and included it in their text settings
• https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-new-art-of-making-boo...
More info is available on the BeeLine Reader website: http://www.beelinereader.com
My blog are supporting webmention / indieweb, the kinds are posted on https://journal.robbi.my/notes/ and the normal stuff like articles are posted on https://journal.robbi.my/posts/
I currently in process of moving out contents from my others old blog to here.
Previously I wrote as dumb static html and now I already use SSG Hugo to make it easier. I have plan to make it dynamic soon, maybe using django (python) or dotnetcore or laravel
UI design is from BulmaCSS and customize by myself with SASS
Somebody already ask me to release the theme to public, sure will do when I finish migration from old blog to new place. There is lot of harcoded on the theme, need re-wire before releasing it.
Nothing fancy here but I really like to blog
Fun fact: A long time ago I had a blog post/rant about reCAPTCHA end up on the HN home page, and some time later I had a coworker ask me if I knew I was on Wikipedia. Turns out someone linked my blog post in the Wikipedia article for CAPTCHAs, but it's since been removed.
Anyways, I did literally just switch from Wordpress to Statamic (which is even self-hosted on my homelab!). WP is a pain to manage, and having a flat-file based CMS does provide me some flexibility. I setup (again, using my homelab and N8N!) an automatic Masotdon-to-Statamic cross-poster, which was much easier to integrate than if I had my old WP setup.
I've had this one for a couple years now. I've had more polished-looking sites in the past, but this time I wanted to emphasize having fun with it and not being too precious - this allows me to update it without worrying about everything being perfect.
It's a static site built by Eleventy. I edit/build it locally, and then when I push up to Github it's rebuilt there by a Github action. Details here: https://www.justus.ws/how/
Edit: An interesting tidbit: my avatar in the upper-left corner blinks on a random timer thanks to a very simple bit of JS[0]. However, it exhibits a strange and unexpected behaviour: if you don't interact with the webpage for a while, my avatar "goes to sleep"; e.g. the eyes close until you interact with it again.
I love this, but I don't know why it happens! I get that the browser probably pauses scripts after a time, but why would it always end up with its eyes closed, especially when the eyes are only supposed to close for 150ms at a time?
[0]:
async function blinktimer() {
async function blink() {
var src = $(" .avatar ").attr('src');
console.log("BLINK!");
$(" .avatar ").attr('src','/images/dadi-avatar_blink.png');
await sleep(150);
$(" .avatar ").attr('src',src);
}
while (true) {
var delay = Math.floor((Math.random() * 11000) + 0);
await sleep(delay);
blink();
}
};I was happy I could get the domain! Pretty simple hand-rolled server-rendered site using the kit-clj[0] and neat-css[1]. Main backbone of the site is here[2]. I used to use a CLJS SPA but it was overkill and not as nice to use (load times particularly.)
[0]: https://kit-clj.github.io/ [1]: https://neat.joeldare.com/ [2]: https://git.sr.ht/~luciano/laratel.li/tree/main/item/src/li/...
https://www.russellbeattie.com/notes/
I write posts using Hypertext - my open source HTML Document Editor - and sync to S3 with a simple static blog generator. It's so nice to write essays using rich-text with the same CSS style as my site and not have to look at Markdown line noise and guess what the end result might look like.
I'm still a student so nothing too cool in there but slowly getting better. I mostly find specific ideas that interest me, group a bunch of those together and try to build a project that uses all of them. I usually blog about those although I think in a bit too much detail.
I also relatively recently published an RSS aggregator that sends emails here if anyone wants to give feedback https://github.com/AntoniosBarotsis/Rss2Email
Cant wait to find cool blogs in these replies
The site doesn't have a particularly stylistic design, and my writing tends to focus on theistics and cognitive philosophy.
The physiological constraints of free will https://specularrealms.com/genetic-freedom
Secular vs God's morality morality https://specularrealms.com/godsmorality
But I also write goofy articles like how Sean astin used basic programming language to hack a password. https://specularrealms.com/2021/04/21/strangest-things
Nothing too fancy, just a static hugo site on github pages. I mostly write about Java and Javascript. Currently trying to complete my 100DaysOfJava. As its quite a tough thing to make time so trying to read and tinker with the concepts and then write.
The article i am most fond of will be https://mohibulsblog.netlify.app/posts/java/100daysofjava/da...
I advertised it originally as a financial technology blog, ended up mostly a career advice blog for navigating toxic environments and some hard truths.
EDIT: Typo.
https://carefulwords.com - A more inspired thesaurus + historic quotes. Example: https://carefulwords.com/solitude
currently working on a microblogging social network, though only about 1 hour a night, so it will take some time.
With my most recent iteration, I have started using my website more as a mental decluttering tool than a show-tell medium. The wesbite is a bunch of markdown files spiced up with Next.js and my first attempt at structured navigation. I keep a similar private one.
I've now been rethinking of reorganizing into a flat heirarchy + what I like to call "theme portals" - essentially big picture entrypoints into details. This avoids a long list of scattered blog posts. The orrganization style of clean overarching themes like tech/math etc. isn't working for me.
The story is that I was going to make my own blogging platform from scratch with vanilla Django for personal use, but then I thought about making it available to anyone for use, but then I noticed that there are already plenty of those, so I made one with a twist.
Actually the name “Pressn’t” comes from making blogs without Wordpress and a wordplay with present.
Not a lot on there right now. I have a lot of ideas for blog posts and started a series porting a tiny C++ renderer to Rust (to learn both 3D graphics and Rust), but it's been hard to find time to continue with school and work. I'm trying to put out a new post before my next semester starts or gets too busy, but we'll see...
I built it kinda from scratch using Hugo. I didn't use any templates and wrote custom all custom CSS. The only JavaScript is a 2.3 KB Umami tracking script that talks to my self-hosted instance.
No blog, it's purpose is to show off projects/my cv.
I'm proud how it turned out, it's quite a unique design.
Functional, and small download. But really not anything to write home about.
I've been using it as a mixed place for documenting engineering projects and hosting piles of images from various reverse engineering efforts & excursions throughout the states.
I've been slowly working on it becoming more mobile friendly. As a static site its incredibly time consuming to cleanup, but also fun. It's like restoring up rusty cookware, similar functionality but way prettier after a lot of scrubbing.
I don't publish frequently, but when I do, I aim to cover underrepresented topics.
Aaaand https://links.l3m.in ! That's a Shaarli-like website made using Django, it helps me store my links.
moon musiq is a netlabel for experimental industrial electronic music. Raises funds to fight human trafficking too.
They made a compilation of 30 second bug songs a few months ago https://moonmusiq.bandcamp.com/album/small-sounds-for-small-...
https://www.artistic.wtf A free Stable Diffusion site for generating images, extra features such as image grids and higher resolution are available from paid plans.
I just published a post 2 days ago about 2022 Self Published Book earnings! I was kind of hoping hn would find it interesting but no luck so far!
https://on-systems.tech/blog/130-2022-self-published-book-ea...
It's a simple static site built with jekyll.
I'm most proud of the chatbot I wired up to answer basic questions from visitors. I explained how I did it here: https://jedfonner.com/2021/08/03/Dialogflow-v2
Blogging inconsistently since 2013, experimented with and morphed the site a whole lot over the years.
stats (self-made and self-hosted) at https://s.cri.dev/ using https://github.com/christian-fei/minimal-analytics
I usually blog/link to; about user experience and privacy.
Want to do the 100 days to offload challenge this year. To force myself a bit to write and learn how to write better.
WIP.. still looking through my archives of old blogs and post on other websites (forums that are long gone, social bookmarking services etc) to add to my website retrospectively.
Using Hugo as static site generator and hosted on Netlify.
Basically a programming blog in English, these days about iOS and Swift development, statically generated with Hugo, hosted on Netlify.
I also run https://www.kulman.sk which is my original personal site in Slovak with non-programming stuff.
It’s built with my own static site generator (my favourite thing to tinker with). I author posts in my own flavour of markdown. Page templates are good ol’ handlebars. It’s built with indieweb ideals in mind with micropub and webmentions implemented using netlify build plugins and functions.
But I've been working a lot on its "videos for people who hate videos", here: http://angg.twu.net/eev-videos.html
Started putting posts about legal tech recently.
don't mind the mess
i'm pretty new to web development. i made this site with react as an excuse to practice using react.
i'm interested in your feedback about how to best make myself contactable via this site. do you use a contact form? just post your email address?
I have been blogging about 3d, tech and general thoughts on this URL for a long time. Originally a flat site then a WP monster and now a sleak little HUGO number.
I like this idea of blog sharing and it fits with my current feelings of decentralised posting.
My site’s content is most heavily focused on books, ML infra, and small projects. My most popular stuff is probably the Designing Data Intensive Apps flashcards mini-project and a post about K8s being a misfit for data/ML platform teams.
Just a basic Jekyll template. I have had a 2 year break and recently got back into it. In that time I also forgot to renew my old .com domain and had it taken over.
Have had a few posts that previously got attention on Hacker News.
Just started it really, trying to start writing as I miss it a bit from working in academia.
I used Hugo to generate it and host it on GitHub Pages with a custom domain. I need to make some tweaks to the template I used but not really had time!
Built with a little static site generator I use for a couple other projects as well: https://radishjs.com
Link: https://idiotlamborghini.com/articles/using_gpt3_and_hacker_...
Mostly resume and recommendatios I had on LinkedIn. Was planning to write regularly but couldn't find ideas to write about.
Those here who persistently write personal blogs where do you get content ideas from?
Haven't written anything in the past few years, but this year I decided I'm going to start writing again.
It's generated with Hugo and uses a theme I found on GitHub. Nothing fancy there.
My personal freelancing company site. I got an endorsement from the prime minister of my country, which was pretty cool! Trying to focus on which technologies and projects I’ve worked with to give a sense of what skills I have
Constantly working on this. I wanted one of those incredibly functional, nearly entirely text-based sites (huge fan of those) ... but I decided to try to be more creative and have fun with it.
A WordPress-based site I established way back in 2005. It's all non-fiction stories from history and science, plus I curate links to other interesting content.
God bless Hugo.
I write about anything that interests me, from tech to religion.
If you only want to subscribe to tech posts, there should be RSS feeds for specific categories and tags. Let me know if they don't work.
- most recent project: https://glthr.com/cj -- solution to a literary puzzle
It’s the first personal website I’ve ever felt happy about. Every so often I’ll get inspired and write a post but I have quite a few ideas in draft.
and https://forum.krehwell.com/ for hackernews clone of mine.
aint much, but honest work :')
Built with a simple static site generator in PHP: https://rogerclark.org/website.php.txt
Just did some redesign and cleanup.
I especially like the idea of a /now page. Experimenting with adding more pages and content soon.
Digital Garden is the right word here. ;)
Hosted on gitlab pages (for now), built with the Hugo SSG.
Mostly showcasing some small side projects as well as my ceramics. I’m considering opening a small web shop as well.
Lots of Emacs and generative art.
Buffalo chicken thoughts go to https://theflyingbuffalo.com/
Was featured many times on HN and it seems the community really liked some of my posts
Hand written HTML/css/js deployed via cloudflare pages
I post bookmarks at https://jamesg.coffee.
This is my personal site hosted on Micro.Blog where I try to keep track of spare projects that I make for myself, friends, or family!
All very nerdy electronics stuff: connecting GDB over JTAG, logic design, playing with FPGAs, repair of old test equipment, LED projects
Otherwise: https://web.navan.dev
I regularly blog about stuff I do at work/self hosting/anything I find interesting.
The blog is made with Zola and hosted on GitHub pages.
it's mostly an e-resume, but my hackaday and github profile links are at the bottom if you want to see my electronics projects :)
Random blog posts on frameworks for thinking, ideas, and projects. I aspire to write more!
I regret the TLD.
I also run my email server there. Telling people my email address, I have to go character by character. Oh well! :-)
It used to be a Jekyll site but after just getting frustrated with markdown and Jekyll I moved to Ghost. Ideally, I'd like to delete all social media and just have a newsletter via it.
It's a pelican blog, uses the pelican octopress theme is hosted on GitHub and served with cloudflare static
Put this together very recently. Generated with Zola and hosted on GitHub Pages. Quite happy with the little music feed!
Still barebone. I want to explore about federation stuff and indieweb movement.
LISP, compilers, array programming, science fiction models, statistics, meditation, programming languages, etc...
It's got one article about complex integrals. There's also my CV in there as well (looking for work atm ;) )
It's a blog with a mix of written articles & showcasing products I've built.
Its a simple hugo generated static site with my own theme.
A blog I rarely write, and some pages about my collection of pet computers.
Just a list of random stuff I’ve worked on, including a lot of abandoned side projects.
A random collection of my favorite GIFs and SoundCloud embeds over the years
Programming projects, little web games, miscellaneous other topics.
Something like a landing page, but I tried to recreate aesthetics of csgo hvh websites
Old, out-of-date website, but still works :) Works better on desktop
Static website (my blog plus some more) built with Hugo and hosted on GitHub Pages.
A bunch of side projects/gigs and ideas. Site is almost all static HTML/CSS.
I saw a site a few weeks back and create a similar website for myself.
Tutorials and ideas and analysis, started back in 1999!
My personal site made with Next, Sanity, and Tailwind
I document small issues and set up guides for myself about Laravel.
Just a personal blog and some bio with links to projects.
Just some HTML really :-/ ... :-)
Did a recent revamp, not proud of the excessive JS but it is what it is, also I've started using stable diffusion to generate thumbnails for my posts which I really like, now the only thing missing is to start blogging actively.
Rambling about design, programming, hardware and Linux
It's most simple, I hope
Try double click
Blog and other personal site stuff
fully hosted on Github pages (+ github actions for deployment). I haven’t written anything on it for a while, I’m getting committed to change that for this year.
Blog and stuff
Mostly quantum computing
Research, blog, and stuff
(And potato.horse for meeting notes)