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Ask HN: Who has your favorite personal website? What does yours look like?

11 points by jmk20 6y ago

mrandolph 6y ago
Jeff Atwood's has been a long time favorite of mine. https://codinghorror.com https://codinghorror.com It's a simple layout, easy to parse, with lots of interesting content. His personal "About Me" follows the writing style found in the rest of his content, and he puts(presumably) a lot of time and energy into producing high quality and well-thought-out posts.
- yesenadam 6y ago
  Hmm weird, my browser objected with "Firefox detected a potential security threat and did not continue to codinghorror.com" ..ah, it seems it's actually https://blog.codinghorror.com/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/ I love the site too.
abhayhegde 6y ago
I think Tania Rascia has my favorite personal website. taniarascia.com/ It is built on Gatsby static webpage generator and is very fast, gets about 98-100 for desktop on Lighthouse (or Pagespeed Insights) despite looking content heavy. It has dark mode toggle button, nice font and stylishly simple. Also, she delivers amazing tutorials on hot coding topics for free. Apart from that, paulgraham.com is my favorite essay blog, although I do not like the design.
yesenadam 6y ago
I love https://jvns.ca/ https://jvns.ca/ !! Also there's an awful lot of good stuff on http://amasci.com/ http://amasci.com/ Mine looks like http://www.adamponting.com/ http://www.adamponting.com/ Thanks, you reminded me I read Steve Krug's Don't Make Me Think, Revisited (2014) recently and decided a lot had to change with my site! Excellent book. Actually I was mainly inspired by the advice on http://amasci.com/faq.html http://amasci.com/faq.html . The last few years I've been making LaTeX PDFs of what I explore/think about/do/learn, instead of putting it online, which is a shame I guess.
cdbattags 6y ago
Mine looks like: https://cdbattaglia.com https://cdbattaglia.com I remember finding https://jgthms.com/web-design-in-4-minutes/ https://jgthms.com/web-design-in-4-minutes/ and being so blown away by dynamic rendered procedural CSS. I've used this as a starting point and then added features. I also have a Markdown rendering pipeline in place that allows me to display LaTex for my math studies (as seen https://cdbattaglia.com/words/axiomatic-math https://cdbattaglia.com/words/axiomatic-math).
BillSaysThis 6y ago
Garret's https://dangerousmeta.rocks https://dangerousmeta.rocks
seanwilson 6y ago
Mine is here: https://www.seanw.org/ https://www.seanw.org/ Gets all green ticks against Google's new Core Web Vitals metrics for page experience. :)
sgillen 6y ago
This is IMHO the best one I’ve ever come across: https://www.gwern.net/ https://www.gwern.net/ .

11 points by jmk20 6y ago

Jeff Atwood's has been a long time favorite of mine. https://codinghorror.com https://codinghorror.com It's a simple layout, easy to parse, with lots of interesting content. His personal "About Me" follows the writing style found in the rest of his content, and he puts(presumably) a lot of time and energy into producing high quality and well-thought-out posts.

yesenadam 6y ago
Hmm weird, my browser objected with "Firefox detected a potential security threat and did not continue to codinghorror.com" ..ah, it seems it's actually https://blog.codinghorror.com/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/ I love the site too.

abhayhegde 6y ago

I think Tania Rascia has my favorite personal website. taniarascia.com/ It is built on Gatsby static webpage generator and is very fast, gets about 98-100 for desktop on Lighthouse (or Pagespeed Insights) despite looking content heavy. It has dark mode toggle button, nice font and stylishly simple. Also, she delivers amazing tutorials on hot coding topics for free. Apart from that, paulgraham.com is my favorite essay blog, although I do not like the design.

yesenadam 6y ago

I love https://jvns.ca/ https://jvns.ca/ !! Also there's an awful lot of good stuff on http://amasci.com/ http://amasci.com/ Mine looks like http://www.adamponting.com/ http://www.adamponting.com/ Thanks, you reminded me I read Steve Krug's Don't Make Me Think, Revisited (2014) recently and decided a lot had to change with my site! Excellent book. Actually I was mainly inspired by the advice on http://amasci.com/faq.html http://amasci.com/faq.html . The last few years I've been making LaTeX PDFs of what I explore/think about/do/learn, instead of putting it online, which is a shame I guess.

cdbattags 6y ago

Mine looks like: https://cdbattaglia.com https://cdbattaglia.com I remember finding https://jgthms.com/web-design-in-4-minutes/ https://jgthms.com/web-design-in-4-minutes/ and being so blown away by dynamic rendered procedural CSS. I've used this as a starting point and then added features. I also have a Markdown rendering pipeline in place that allows me to display LaTex for my math studies (as seen https://cdbattaglia.com/words/axiomatic-math https://cdbattaglia.com/words/axiomatic-math).

BillSaysThis 6y ago

Garret's https://dangerousmeta.rocks https://dangerousmeta.rocks

seanwilson 6y ago

Mine is here: https://www.seanw.org/ https://www.seanw.org/ Gets all green ticks against Google's new Core Web Vitals metrics for page experience. :)

sgillen 6y ago

This is IMHO the best one I’ve ever come across: https://www.gwern.net/ https://www.gwern.net/ .