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I set up my personal website [0] quite a while ago - 2020 or so. I've been updating it a lot more regularly in the last few years and I've found it very rewardi

I set up my personal website [0] quite a while ago - 2020 or so. I've been updating it a lot more regularly in the last few years and I've found it very rewarding. It's great to have my own place where I am in full control of everything, and I've also learned a lot about webdev which is not my core focus usually. The best part by far is people going out of their way to get in touch & let me know that the found a post of mine interesting or useful. [0] https://tiniuc.com https://tiniuc.com

r_c_a_d 2y ago
"quite a while ago - 2020" I think in the context of this article, 2020 is very recent. But otherwise, yes I agree. Incidentally, my own site started out in 1999 as a personal site, became a poster for my writing, then back to a personal site and is now a poster for my tutoring. All the old content is still there, just with a different emphasis https://richardtaylor.co.uk/ https://richardtaylor.co.uk/
- tiniuclx 2y ago
  I hadn't even learned how to walk in 1999, let alone host a personal website! I grew up during a bit a transitional period of the internet. My earliest memories involve playing Flash games on Newgrounds, reading about Bionicle lore online & listening to Cryoshell and Daughtry, thanks again to Bionicle. I also used to hang out on quite a few internet forums. While this is not quite the "personal website" internet advocated for in the post, it's a lot rougher and edgier than the Facebooks & Instagrams we have today. Amongst my peers it's not really 'normal' to have a personal website - I only know one person IRL who does that, and we met because I noticed he was coding in Haskell while I was performing live music at a pub! I do fear that personal websites will become less and less common - young techies these days basically grew up in the big tech walled gardens without any chance to experience the rougher, non-commercial web of yore. The idea of going through all the trouble to get a website going may seem pointless in a world where everyone you know is on Instagram.
  - r_c_a_d 2y ago
    Yay! We have lots of Bionicles in the house still. My boys used to buy me a new one when I started a new job for my desk - when working in the office was a thing. Not having your own website is an opportunity missed for techies especially, I think.
    - tiniuclx 2y ago
      Hah, I have some Bohrok on my desk right now! Got into collecting them again last year.

r_c_a_d 2y ago

"quite a while ago - 2020" I think in the context of this article, 2020 is very recent. But otherwise, yes I agree. Incidentally, my own site started out in 1999 as a personal site, became a poster for my writing, then back to a personal site and is now a poster for my tutoring. All the old content is still there, just with a different emphasis https://richardtaylor.co.uk/ https://richardtaylor.co.uk/

tiniuclx 2y ago
I hadn't even learned how to walk in 1999, let alone host a personal website! I grew up during a bit a transitional period of the internet. My earliest memories involve playing Flash games on Newgrounds, reading about Bionicle lore online & listening to Cryoshell and Daughtry, thanks again to Bionicle. I also used to hang out on quite a few internet forums. While this is not quite the "personal website" internet advocated for in the post, it's a lot rougher and edgier than the Facebooks & Instagrams we have today. Amongst my peers it's not really 'normal' to have a personal website - I only know one person IRL who does that, and we met because I noticed he was coding in Haskell while I was performing live music at a pub! I do fear that personal websites will become less and less common - young techies these days basically grew up in the big tech walled gardens without any chance to experience the rougher, non-commercial web of yore. The idea of going through all the trouble to get a website going may seem pointless in a world where everyone you know is on Instagram.
- r_c_a_d 2y ago
  Yay! We have lots of Bionicles in the house still. My boys used to buy me a new one when I started a new job for my desk - when working in the office was a thing. Not having your own website is an opportunity missed for techies especially, I think.
  - tiniuclx 2y ago
    Hah, I have some Bohrok on my desk right now! Got into collecting them again last year.