alt Hacker NewsAsk HN: Share your personal website
Hello HN! I am putting together a community-maintained directory of personal websites at https://hnpwd.github.io/. More details about the project can be found in the README at https://github.com/hnpwd/hnpwd#readme.
As you can see, the directory currently has only a handful of entries. I need your help to grow it. If you have a personal website, I would be glad if you shared it here. If your website is hosted on a web space where you have full control over its design and content, and if it has been well received in past HN discussions, I might add it to the directory. Just drop a link in the comments. Please let me know if you do not want your website to be included in the directory.
Also, I intend this to be a community maintained resource, so if you would like to join the GitHub project as a maintainer, please let me know either here or via the IRC link in the README.
By the way, see also 'Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575081 - July 2023 - (1014 points, 1940 comments). In this post, the scope is not restricted to blogs though. Any personal website is welcome, whether it is a blog, digital garden, personal wiki or something else entirely.
UPDATE: It is going to take a while to go through all the submissions and add them. If you'd like to help with the process, please send a PR directly to this project: https://github.com/hnpwd/hnpwd.
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Sorry for the long post, but it may be relevant to you.
I would share my personal website which I owned for 25+ years, but AWS deregistered it because of $36.
In case you use AWS as a registrar, be warned: If your account is "closed", they will release your domains. In other words, they make them available as if they were expired. Immediately.
Short summary: I consolidated my domains at AWS years ago just to make it easier to manage everything from one spot. Earlier last year, my credit card I used for auto payments didn't have the $18 I pay for monthly costs. I didn't notice, until my email stopped working because my account was "suspended" due to non payment after a couple months.
When AWS suspended the account, they turned off DNS routing which I managed from Route 53, so not only did my websites stop working, so did my email account (which had DNS entries to route to Gmail).
So I went to log in to pay my bill, but in the time since I had last signed in, AWS had added two factor authentication. But since I couldn't get my email, I couldn't log in. Quiz: How does one pay AWS if you can't log into your account? You cant. How do you submit a ticket? Create a new account, submit a ticket about the old account from there (you still can't pay). And then wait. And then send in a notarized form plus forms of identity. It took over a two months to resolve. Meanwhile, my account went from suspended to "closed".
I put that in quotes because when I was finally able to get my log in working, my account was as it was before with all data and setup intact.
Except for all my domains.
They had been deregistered, despite having paid for years more. AWS cancelled and released my domains without my permission. They actively deleted them from the register list, so anyone out there could buy them.
russellbeattie.com was no longer mine. In addition to the other 6 domains I used.
Because of the SEO of my personal blog, some asshole had added my domain to an "add/drop" service, so it was instantly snapped up and is now used as a scam website. They also have access to all my email, which I've used for everything from Apple to Microsoft to Google and more.
So, I'd love to share my blog with you, but Amazon screwed me so badly it's incredible.
tl;dr: Don't use AWS as your registrar.
https://royalicing.com/ — I write about WebAssembly, design, and thoughts about writing software
https://theandrewbailey.com/ - I usually blog about whatever game I just finished playing.
https://vikky.dev - just a dev blog with medicore posts with no attempt to impress anyone.
Mine sucks, but there's some interesting stuff I guess: https://blog.winricklabs.com/
https://oisinmoran.com/ with a few entries that have made it the HN front page over the years.
Click the ⌘⌥1 on the top right of the terminal or enter it on the keyboard for some fun code golfing.
Mine: https://marscalendar.space/
A Martian calendar + my other space exploration projects and publications.
https://ivanderevianko.com/ - no js, html + css. scores 100 on google page speed
I write blogs with interactive components on research and personal projects.
there already a handful of digital garden galleries, eg. https://vaults.obsidian-community.com/
but if you want to add my websites, please do ;) - https://www.craftengineer.com/ - https://blog.vibemanager.cc/
https://iamvishnu.com - my personal website/blog running on April⋅SSG, a simple SSG I made for this.
https://matheusmoreira.com/ - I mainly write about my programming language project
Personal blog I update every now and then. Mostly infrastructure, networking, and observability stuff.
Some articles have been well-received here and certainly resulted in good discussion!
https://keepitwiel.github.io/erosion-sim A hydraulic erosion simulator.
My personal blog is https://www.thehighestcritic.com
Lots of things need critiquing in today’s world.
https://invertedpassion.com - write essays on systems, philosophy, science, tech and startups
A public but personal place for things I’ve made: https://mainframenzo.com
Not updated often in the slightest :)
https://almynotes.com/ - it has a newsletter which I send 2 times a month
Nothing special, just mostly a list of stuff that I've worked on in terms of my research interests.
My blog: https://seanwangjs.github.io/ Writes about machine learning and programing
https://adamcquirk.com/videos/ - I made videos on the internet 20yrs ago.
https://prakashsellathurai.com/
- my personal site consists of essays, projects and books i read
A pretty average personal blog--mix of homelab updates, tech solutions, and family ongoings.
https://vasi.li - my site
https://blog.vasi.li - my blog
Nothing much here, other than 5-6 blogposts. And nothing interesting for the HN crowd.
Here it is: https://webmohit.com
What remains of my personal site that I've been messing with since about 1998.
Lockdown project during early COVID, I tried to be as close as possible to the original windows 98 functionality.
Here is where I share science-fiction short stories and flash fiction:
Cool idea! Here's mine
https://shielddigitaldesign.com/
Mostly just stuff I try to share about hardware design.
Inspired by @simonw, I also started building, small lightweight tools
https://sureshkumarg.com my site covers SEO, semantic seo , data science usage in organic growth.
My personal website + blog: https://laurent.le-brun.eu
Multiple of my blog posts have been shared here before
https://www.tglyn.ch/ - here's mine. I've had a post make it to number 2 on HN
https://saltwatercowboy.github.io/albedo/
Simple site for simple needs :)
https://lutherlowry.com - Currently a work in progress, but it's out there and fully usable.
https://generativestuff.com/ - Building, fixing, and scaling B2B SaaS ventures
https://tushardadlani.com - My personal blog where I try to make sense of the world
There used to be a frustratingly missing section of documentation on how to run Jenkins reasonably.
Just waiting on some vendors to patch bugs before I can drop the first set of posts :)
https://simon-frey.com/ A while back I decided to go for plain text :)
https://dheera.net -- mostly photography and random non-work side projects, sorely in need of update
I decided to combine two ideas:
1) Retro 70’s-90’s design
2) Having the website generated in (semi) real time via AI
https://francescovigni.com - I have built mine with gatsby and developed my own template.
https://dav.one/ My private blog about web development, programming, and generative AI.
https://www.adambourg.com/ - mostly blogging about javascript, the bible and various AI topics