Ask HN: Share your personal website

5 hours ago

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.github.io#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.github.io

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mcargian  4 minutes ago

https://www.cruiseqa.com/

I built a Q&A style blog about cruising, with an initial focus on Disney Cruise Line. We're heading out on our first family cruise, and I had a lot of very specific questions. LLM answers were usually close, but often missed important nuances, so I ended up digging through countless Reddit threads and forum posts to piece together reliable answers.

I started collecting those answers for my own reference, which gradually turned into a public blog. The funny part is that the posts themselves will probably end up as training data for future LLMs, closing the loop.

brianjlogan  7 minutes ago

https://brianjlogan.com I haven't done much with it but my plans are to try and spend more time writing. Haven't even ported over most of my prior content. I've been on the web since I think 2007 learning HTML as a kid uploading files via FTP. I need to figure out a better RSS reader that I can subscribe to other blogs like Julia Evan's

simonsarris  1 hour ago

https://simonsarris.com - My site

https://map.simonsarris.com - My newsletter site

https://garden.simonsarris.com - My garden designer site. Currently making this so anyone can use it! Public alpha at the end of the month I hope.

https://meetinghouse.cc - My site for helping twitter users find each other

https://carefulwords.com - My very fast thesaurus site

  • usmanity  1 hour ago

    wow! I love how the background/header generates as the page loads and you can click to add things on it. Overall, the design if amazing!

  • lostlogin  1 hour ago

    Love your garden! How big is your section? Or is this hypothetical?

    Do you keep geese?

    I noticed that tree sizes go to 200 if you put nonsense on the field (text emoticon etc).

    • simonsarris  1 hour ago

      I have about 7 acres. I kept geese once but they were killed when they ran off with a local 5K that ran by my house and they followed. They were never found.

      I have kept ducks (meat) and chickens (eggs) at various times, but I ate all the ducks and I gave away the chickens just last month. Unfortunately free ranging chickens have been very destructive to my gardening, and I am trying to make the 2nd largest rose garden in NH, so that goal has priority.

  • therealbilliam  1 hour ago

    how did you make those animations on your main site?

    • simonsarris  1 hour ago

      I did it all by hand in HTML canvas. I have spent a long time making such things for years. My day job is making a canvas-based Diagramming library so I have some practice.

      If you click on it the scene creates more objects by the way. And if you right-click and drag you can move them around.

addy_osmani  1 hour ago

https://addyosmani.com

I'm not a great designer, but I've tried to capture the who, what and jump off points for reading my writing as well as I could. Always impressed by the creativity and soul many other folks seem able to put into their personal homepages!

mosiuerbarso  2 hours ago

http://djkippax.com/

I'm a turntablist and scratch DJ, been running my site since 2006. I mix and dj mainly old rave stuff and old hip hop. I'm oldskool in that i like to provide free mp3 and even flac versions of my mixes, and I don't just rely on another walled garden type service.

I don't update that site as frequently as i should.

But i'm planning to add a lot more music to it later this year and maybe some video/visual mixes which I've been working on.

morganf  1 hour ago

Today is my 50th birthday, actually! And my website is basically a timeline of interesting projects I've been doing since I was a kid. I often think it would be cool if everyone had some public timeline of their life in a shareable way. Here's mine: https://westegg.com

bityard  2 hours ago

I need to write more often, but okay: https://blog.bityard.net/

If anyone has any leads on a comment system that isn't a spam magnet and also works acceptably with a static site, I'm all ears.

shdon  43 minutes ago

https://www.shdon.com/ I post infrequently, but have been maintaining a site for nearly 30 years now, 25 of which at this address. It contains random musings, some tech content, my game development efforts, and showcases some of my pixel art.

SeriousM  43 minutes ago

https://MachsEinfach.at

I'm a software architect with 23 years of professional experience, mainly in C#/.NET environments, and I currently lead a development team. Over the years, my focus has shifted from purely technical excellence to the human side of software development: communication, decision-making, responsibility, and sustainable performance. In parallel to my tech career, I trained as a licensed psychological counsellor and supervisor in Austria, Vienna. Today, I work with individuals and teams on topics like leadership, mental load, clarity in roles, burnout prevention, and turning reflection into action, especially in complex, high-responsibility environments such as software teams. My work bridges structured engineering thinking with psychological depth and practical implementation.

AMA!

jaggederest  2 hours ago

Procedural note: if you're an experienced HN user looking at this page, consider briefly turn on "show dead" and vouch for some of the spam-blocked comments - it looks like the filter takes exception to the single-website-and-nothing-else style post

  • metadat  2 hours ago

    Heads up: I actually started vouching a few but then looked more closely and all these accounts have 1 karma, were created recently (< 60 days old), and the linked sites smell suspiciously of AI slop. I also didn't find any prior comments, favorited content, no signs of life. Why would someone never comment only to do so now? I'm hesitant to vouch potential bot accounts.

    {Insert Post-LLM Internet sadness for good intentions here}

Jigsy  1 hour ago

https://jigsy.neocities.org/ or https://jigsy.nekoweb.org/ as a backup. Just a list of pointers to other accounts I have.

Honestly, I hate modern web design. And as someone who grew up with Web 1.0 back in the late 90s, I try to adhere to the KISS approach.

I did discover last night it isn't very mobile friendly, though.

  • j-krieger  1 hour ago

    You have watched more anime than I have read books, not by far, but I find it impressive nonetheless. This is a long shot, but any recommendation to someone who really like Heavenly Delusion?

potluri  1 hour ago

I'm not a web designer by trade. I did recently decide to launch a personal website after dragging my feet for many years:

https://www.potluria.com

I only have one blog post, it's effectively a host for my resume and there's a lot of work to do to make it nicer. For one, while I'm trying to convey an aesthetic with the three.js-powered background, it is _not_ performant on some devices. Choosing a SPA architecture in order to keep the background seamless is also biting me in the butt. From an SEO perspective, for example, I can't implement proper OpenGraph metadata on the blog posts since crawlers don't execute JS.

I'm happy though. I'm excited to make it a long-lived shrine.

  • medv  1 hour ago

    Nice work! But cv can be designed better;)

    • potluri  41 minutes ago

      Thanks. Yeah, it isn't ideal. Originally nearly every item fit on one page but the point size was tiny. When I apply for roles, I prune out irrelevant information, which I can do programmatically since I rebuilt the CV; it's rendered with Typst now vs just being a Word doc. However I think I need to do a fundamental overhaul on how everything is organized. Verdict is out on how I should do that :)

volfenstein  41 minutes ago

https://wolfgangschmaltz.com/

Just a showcase for my academic mathematics research and some deep learning focused personal projects.

I built it with Quarto, which is fantastic for building a website containing mathematics or coding with no futzing with CSS or so on.

gylterud  1 hour ago

https://hakon.gylterud.net/

I write there about anything which interests me. My site is written in Markdown and an mkfile builds it using Pandoc. There is even an atom feed for my diary entries. Also generated using Pandoc!

Greenpants  1 hour ago

https://blog.greenpants.net – my actively maintained blog where I write about my thoughts on AI given my Master's, share personal stories, tutorials and more. Lots of drafts coming up soon, like the ideal home server architecture. Hopefully inspirational to some, at the very least the randomized quotes at the top might be.

Let me know :)

tskulbru  1 hour ago

https://tskulbru.dev I try to share things i learn as i struggle with a topic (like using .http files in nvim, or setting up a scalable release management for mobile apps etc), and also share some insights into the things im creating. I try to post a few times a month

davely  1 hour ago

Been going at it since 2003! It's a blog but links to all my open source work, and as of late, I talk a lot of various projects I work on and random rabbit holes I fall into.

https://daveschumaker.net

hazrmard  1 hour ago 

    https://iahmed.me

Hugo website, with a theme I made from scratch myself.

Github Pages deployment.

Here's my first website from when I was in college and had no experience in web dev. I still keep it on for nostalgia:

    https://iahmed.me/old_www/

torh  2 hours ago

https://torh.net

I have a plan of making it a "proper" webpage with more sub-pages for hobbies and such. But right now its a 90's style page with some info and a lot of links.

mdh  2 hours ago

https://ho.dges.online

I use it as a digital scrapbook of pictures, projects etc rather than a blog.

I clicked on a random sample of the links posted here and really enjoyed seeing the diversity of things people post about and the variety of designs the sites have.

  • rambambram  2 hours ago

    Beautiful pictures. Ever thought of putting these in the enclosure-tags of an RSS feed? Would show up nicely in my self-built reader, with emphasis on what I call 'photo feeds'.

olivia-banks  3 hours ago

https://oliviactl.net

It's just an introduction to me and where I work/what I do. So bioinformatics, simulation software, and HPC. I was going to start a blog but then realized that's more effort than I want to put in ;)

wehrend  1 hour ago

Blogging mostly about electronics, made it as tutorials alike Http://wehrend.github.io ...

chrismorgan  3 hours ago

https://chrismorgan.info/

Come back next week, and that should all be archived (preserving all content and links) and a new site in a completely different direction begun. A pure-CSS 3D space. Lots of handwriting. A synthesised pipe organ. And lots more, over time.

spmcl  41 minutes ago

seanmcloughl.in

Currently just hosts my blog. I mainly like how my name fully fits in the URL.

phalangion  1 hour ago

hhtps://www.schuetzler.net - currently down because my home router died, but hopefully back up tomorrow

zahlman  4 hours ago

Since knowing I'm listed like this somewhere would give me that much more reason to write stuff, sure: https://zahlman.github.io

> In this post, the scope is not restricted to blogs though. Any personal website is welcome

Might as well also take links from there, though, right?

sciencemadness  1 hour ago

My site is Sciencemadness. The forum is the most active part of the site:

https://www.sciencemadness.org/whisper/

Check out the library too (this started before Google Books, Internet Archive, and Hathitrust were offering scans):

https://library.sciencemadness.org/library/index.html

The site performance has intermittently suffered a lot from badly behaved crawlers, so if it's slow when you visit I apologize in advance. (Edit: current load average on server is 63. Ugh.)

I have another much more active account here but Sciencemadness so easily reveals my IRL identity that I don't mention this site on the other account.

pdappollonio  1 hour ago

www.patrickdap.com

Technology, engineering and a few other tidbits. Need to update it a bit further though!

embedding-shape  2 hours ago

My website is here, a static website built only with Nix: https://embedding-shapes.github.io/ (source: https://github.com/embedding-shapes/embedding-shapes.github....)

Well, technically the website is built with Nix and CSS, no manual HTML written though ;)

> 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.github.io

If only there was a language that could run in all of our browsers, maybe even easily executable via some Quake-like console window that could open next to the website, that could just grab all visible URLs within some specific parts... Oh well ;)

codyklimdev  2 hours ago

codyklim.dev

I probably need to throw some polish on it but I'm not a good UI designer and don't care for visual fluff

ChrisArchitect  2 hours ago

OP, you didn't make it clear you're only looking for sites with content shared on HN with moderate success (100+ votes), as opposed to everyone's random personal URL they may not have ever shared here. (but then why not? if it's just a community directory)

lobf  2 hours ago

I'm a film industry professional but half-vibe-coded my personal website:

reachnick.co

russellbeattie  1 hour ago

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.