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Ask HN: What are your favorite personal websites?

30 points by rblion 4y ago

In terms of design, aesthetic, storytelling, content, impact, etc.

alxmrs 4y ago
The artist behind the band Toro y Moi has a great site: https://chazwick.com/ https://chazwick.com/
dimitar 4y ago
toastytech.com - old GUIs, IE hate, Doom levels
altilunium 4y ago
My university professor's personal website [1,2]. I even scraped his website so i can read the content more easily [3] [1] https://rinaldimunir-wordpress-com.translate.goog/daftar-isi/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp https://rinaldimunir-wordpress-com.translate.goog/daftar-isi... [2] https://informatika.stei.itb.ac.id/~rinaldi.munir/ https://informatika.stei.itb.ac.id/~rinaldi.munir/ [3] https://altilunium.github.io/makalahIF/ https://altilunium.github.io/makalahIF/
tkanarsky 4y ago
https://ciechanow.ski/archives/ https://ciechanow.ski/archives/ Fantastic writeups and interactive animations; iirc, he does the WebGL by hand! His website gives me the same feeling of discovery that I got at the Exploratorium as a kid.
NabiDev 4y ago
https://kanaria.codes/ https://kanaria.codes/
labarilem 4y ago
https://www.gwern.net/ https://www.gwern.net/
jbirer 4y ago
https://winworldpc.com/library/operating-systems https://winworldpc.com/library/operating-systems
hacki1337 4y ago
https://www.ars-neurochirurgica.com/ https://www.ars-neurochirurgica.com/ german website with neurosurgical information
tomasz207 4y ago
https://neal.fun/ https://neal.fun/
matrix8967 4y ago
https://jvns.ca/ https://jvns.ca/ Julia Evans blog posts are always a treat to read. * Doesn't skimp on the technical details / resources / examples. * Incredibly readable, human focused language that doesn't "talk down" to a reader. * Wide range of useful topics: Networking, Careers, Soft-Skill, Writing, etc. * Amazing & informative Art/Zines. I leaned on her wisdom often when I found myself suddenly thrust into a career as a DevOps Network Engineer. Her writing very validating for me during some particularly turbulent projects I was working on. It helped me find my own language to advocate for my code/designs in the face of (often needless) scruitiny from technical and non-technical team members. Even if you're familiar with the subject matter of a post -- there's a 99% chance that it'll still be worth it to skim, and come away with something you didn't have before. Huge fan.
melvinroest 4y ago
Here's the websites of one of my professors [1]. He teaches Multimedia from the computer science perspective. It's a hated/loved website and I really liked it back in the day because it really went intensely deep on the concept of hyperlinks. Web Archive [2] has crawled it since 2010, but I'm sure it's a lot older than that. Many crawlers of students have been crashing on it. [1] http://eliens.net/ http://eliens.net/ [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20100201000000*/http://eliens.net/ https://web.archive.org/web/20100201000000*/http://eliens.ne...

30 points by rblion 4y ago

In terms of design, aesthetic, storytelling, content, impact, etc.

alxmrs 4y ago

The artist behind the band Toro y Moi has a great site: https://chazwick.com/ https://chazwick.com/

dimitar 4y ago

toastytech.com - old GUIs, IE hate, Doom levels

altilunium 4y ago

My university professor's personal website [1,2]. I even scraped his website so i can read the content more easily [3] [1] https://rinaldimunir-wordpress-com.translate.goog/daftar-isi/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp https://rinaldimunir-wordpress-com.translate.goog/daftar-isi... [2] https://informatika.stei.itb.ac.id/~rinaldi.munir/ https://informatika.stei.itb.ac.id/~rinaldi.munir/ [3] https://altilunium.github.io/makalahIF/ https://altilunium.github.io/makalahIF/

tkanarsky 4y ago

https://ciechanow.ski/archives/ https://ciechanow.ski/archives/ Fantastic writeups and interactive animations; iirc, he does the WebGL by hand! His website gives me the same feeling of discovery that I got at the Exploratorium as a kid.

NabiDev 4y ago

https://kanaria.codes/ https://kanaria.codes/

labarilem 4y ago

https://www.gwern.net/ https://www.gwern.net/

jbirer 4y ago

https://winworldpc.com/library/operating-systems https://winworldpc.com/library/operating-systems

hacki1337 4y ago

https://www.ars-neurochirurgica.com/ https://www.ars-neurochirurgica.com/ german website with neurosurgical information

tomasz207 4y ago

https://neal.fun/ https://neal.fun/

matrix8967 4y ago

https://jvns.ca/ https://jvns.ca/ Julia Evans blog posts are always a treat to read. * Doesn't skimp on the technical details / resources / examples. * Incredibly readable, human focused language that doesn't "talk down" to a reader. * Wide range of useful topics: Networking, Careers, Soft-Skill, Writing, etc. * Amazing & informative Art/Zines. I leaned on her wisdom often when I found myself suddenly thrust into a career as a DevOps Network Engineer. Her writing very validating for me during some particularly turbulent projects I was working on. It helped me find my own language to advocate for my code/designs in the face of (often needless) scruitiny from technical and non-technical team members. Even if you're familiar with the subject matter of a post -- there's a 99% chance that it'll still be worth it to skim, and come away with something you didn't have before. Huge fan.

melvinroest 4y ago

Here's the websites of one of my professors [1]. He teaches Multimedia from the computer science perspective. It's a hated/loved website and I really liked it back in the day because it really went intensely deep on the concept of hyperlinks. Web Archive [2] has crawled it since 2010, but I'm sure it's a lot older than that. Many crawlers of students have been crashing on it. [1] http://eliens.net/ http://eliens.net/ [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20100201000000*/http://eliens.net/ https://web.archive.org/web/20100201000000*/http://eliens.ne...