Ask HN: Share your personal website

1 month ago

Hello HN! I am putting together a community-maintained directory of personal websites at https://github.com/hnpwd/hnpwd.

https://dustinbrett.com - Spent years working on my own personal website which is also a desktop environment in the browser. Source @ https://github.com/DustinBrett/daedalOS

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

  • 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!

  • I have been a fan of your site for a while. I loved all of your posts and brought you up in conversation sometimes. I also use your list of online galleries all the time. Keep up the good work.

  • 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).

    • 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.

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  • The garden website if beautifully done actually. I quite like how imperfect and non-straight the lines are eg of the house

  • that garden site is something I'll return to. I have a "baby" site at xeriscape.neocities.org and this kind of feature would be muy excellente to include

    thanks

  • how did you make those animations on your main site?

    • 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.

  • And you charge 12$ for pinning your location on meetinghouse.cc, and ppl pay for that! Dude, you're a genius.

https://laurikarjalainen.com/

It's a simple "business card" page built with Angular and 98.css.

Been thinking of upgrading to plain vanilla js, xp.css and maybe some static site generation or CMS thingy for blog posts

I am a big fan of https://blogs.hn/ (I visit it daily), your directory looks similar.

You should automate this, maybe drive all of these content from a json file and accept PRs.

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My blog: https://nabraj.com/

Most popular: Why is boarding a plane still a mess? (https://nabraj.com/blog/boarding-methods)

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!

  • I was lagging behind in AI until a colleague shared your guide about Context Management in LLMs. Thank you for that!

  • I've long admired your work online both for its writing quality and incredible insight.

    Thank you for sharing all these years.

    • Thank you for the kind words and for reading my work over the years!

      I'll be happy if any of it was helpful :)

I got excited at the headline of this post because I love the idea of community maintained personal site directories. Was disappointed to get into the description and linked Git repository and learn that it's only for sites that have gotten some traction on hacker news before. Was hoping it would be a way to stumble upon potentially underrepresented content from folks in the hacker news community who don't normally get attention.

This is probably a "me" problem for assuming otherwise (you even have HN in your URL), but it's not what I expected from a post asking people to share their personal websites.

edit: judging by the number of personal website links posted here that do not meet that criteria, it appears I was not the only one with the wrong impression.

  • > Was disappointed to get into the description and linked Git repository and learn that it's only for sites that have gotten some traction on hacker news before.

    Yes, I was not entirely happy with the restrictive wording either. The original requirement was added mainly out of concern about spam submissions (blogspam, AI-generated content and similar). But the quality of submissions has been surprisingly good and I am genuinely delighted by the number of interesting websites I have came across in the last few hours.

    So I have gone ahead and removed the overly restrictive criteria language.

    > Was hoping it would be a way to stumble upon potentially underrepresented content from folks in the hacker news community who don't normally get attention.

    Yes, that was exactly my intention as well. Thanks for raising this concern. It gave me the push to update the README and make the intent clearer.

    • Your original reasoning makes a lot of sense, and I wasn't even thinking about that aspect. Thanks for clarifying!

  • OP should change it to be what most of us thought it would be. In case not, I’m adding this to favorites so I can continue checking out all the sites later.

    • Done: https://github.com/hnpwd/hnpwd.github.io/commit/e6a016f

      I mentioned in a sibling thread that this requirement was originally added out of caution, mainly to discourage spam submissions. It no longer seems necessary, and I was not entirely happy with it either, so I have removed it now. Thanks for the discussion here, which prompted me to drop the restrictive requirement.

  • TheOldNet runs a decent WebRing that still gets new sites added to it pretty regularly, and is almost always just personal websites/blogs. I quite like it (and my site is on it)

    https://webring.theoldnet.com

    There's also geekring.net that is similar, and a few others that are still actively updated.

    I still prefer WebRings for finding good personal sites, it has that old-web "exploration and discovery" type feeling that makes it actively satisfying to find new sites.

  • Suggestion:

    Everyone think of a number between 0~9, put it in a bracket (so that it's search-friendly), and add it to their post, e.g. "[7] check out my example.com".

    Readers of this thread are then encouraged to search for a random number between 0~9, search for it (e.g., "[5]") via browser, do a few "find next" (just to randomize), and then visit as many results as they enjoy.

  • I mean, it makes sense to restrict outside submissions at least nominally, while being more lenient within the community, given that the project is community-focused.... but yes, I did feel a bit apprehensive when I looked at the repo after I'd already been added.

https://masswerk.at/

The site covers mostly retro- and classic computing. (Strictly no AI generated content.) Here in convenient format:

  (
    :name "Norbert Landsteiner"
    :site "https://masswerk.at/"
    :blog "https://masswerk.at/nowgobang/"
    :feed "https://masswerk.at/nowgobang/feed.xml" //covers blog only
    :about "https://masswerk.at/info/"             //legal info
    :hnuid "masswerk"
    :bio "web developer and designer, site content is mostly retro- and classic computing."
  )

  • Your Pet 2001 emulator's pretty cool, and seems much more capable and user friendly than a lot of the downloadable alternatives.

    Actually a bit of an issue, its so capable, I actually have difficulty justifying a downloadable alternative, even though I'd prefer to have a local copy due to the untrustworthiness of web apps over time.

    • Thank you! I can see that this may a bit of an issue. However, this being a simple webpage is what allows to quickly tinker with this and push a quick update, which is also how much of this has kept growing.

  • What a coincidence to see this here - in these days I'm making my first NES emulator and I have your 6502 instruction set page permanently open.

    Thank you so much for your work.

https://goto.anardil.net/ - Launchpad for all my other (16!) sites.

The main ones are:

https://diving.anardil.net/ - Scuba diving picture gallery; organized by timeline, common name, taxonomy, and more

https://dnd.anardil.net/ - Artifacts from my groups' D&D games

https://pirates.anardil.net/ - Pirate insult generator

https://alchemy.anardil.net/ - Morrowind (TES 3) alchemy calculator

  • How did you tag your scuba pics and vids? I need to do something like this to organize my own scuba footage!

https://plackett.co.uk

I made this about 5 years ago with just html and a-frame. The cms is an inline json file. It has aged really well!

My personal website lives at https://pablo.rauzy.name/ since 2008. My previous personal website is not online anymore.

Some parts of it are in French, typically the teaching section, which is primarily aimed at my students.

My blog (in French) is at https://p4bl0.net/. It's a new version that's live since 2021 but this domain has been hosting my blog since 2006. I had a blog before that but the hosting service I used has long been dead.

  • I see others have specified their tech stack.

    My blog runs on Dotclear (a very good open source PHP+MySQL blog engine) with a homemade theme.

    My website runs on a hand written static site generator made of a Makefile and Bash scripts relying on the xml2 and 2xml commands, and coreutils in between them (especially sed). Those are automatically executed by a Git hook on my server to update the website on push. It's been like this since the beginning so I have the full history of my website's version back up to 2008 (I'm not even sure GitHub Pages were a thing back then!). It's fun to sometimes go back and see how it looked like almost 20 years ago.

https://nindalf.com. I've written a few posts that have made it to HN [1].

I strongly oppose writing with LLMs and think it's more important than ever to write with our own words. If my writing is to be better than LLMs I need to hone it by writing more.

I'm proud of the website as well. I have used LLMs to assist with the UI dev. It has all 100s from PageSpeed. I've made it so it's easy to add pages within. All the books I've read in the last few years [1] and a minimalist gym tracker I use myself (any anyone can too!).

[1] - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[2] - https://nindalf.com/books

[3] - https://nindalf.com/gym

  • One of my major goals for 2026 was zero LLM use for writing, however I've found it a bit hard at times because LLMs are exceptional for research. Oftentimes I find that in reading an explanation or report that ChatGPT gives me about a topic there will be small turns of phrase or even whole sentences that capture a concept way better than I can. I then feel obstinate not using a clearly superior option, so I'm curious if you've run into that tension and if so how you navigate it.

    • Honestly I don't have an idea. I guess the stuff I write about I know enough to get a good first draft out, preserving my voice. But if I read a first draft by an AI I think I would be influenced.

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.

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.

https://yesornoai.com

  A collection of free decision-making tools I built:                                             
  - Decision Wheel (customizable spinning wheel)                                                  
  - Coin Flip (yes/no decisions)                                                                  
  - Tarot Reading (with AI interpretations)                                                       
  - Magic 8 Ball                                                                                  
                                                                                                  
  Features: AI-powered result analysis (OpenAI), 10 languages, dark/light themes, mobile          
  responsive.                                                                                     
                                                                                                  
  Tech: Next.js 15, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Supabase.

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

  • 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}

Nothing fancy - A simple gallery of my art progress.

https://wanderinglines.art/

Context: I started from an existing Bootstrap gallery template and stripped it down to the bare minimum. The site is static with all the sorting and grouping done client-side. Images are just files in a folder, with metadata in a JSON file. Adding a new piece is just dropping in an image and updating the JSON. It’s hosted on GitHub Pages with a cheap domain from Namecheap.

https://rasmuskirk.com/

My personal blog and resume. I have written a couple of blog-posts:

- 2025-06-18: Lasso Transactions as an alternative to Copyright

  A Solution to Fund Creativity and Combat the Free-Rider Problem in a World Without Copyright.

  https://rasmuskirk.com/articles/2025-06-18_lasso-transactions-as-an-alternative-to-copyright

- 2024-12-23: Why Nix Is the Perfect Package Manager for Your Steam Deck

  An article exploring the benefits of using Nix on the Steam Deck, with a step-by-step guide to installation and configuration using Home Manager.

  https://rasmuskirk.com/articles/2024-12-23_why-nix-is-the-perfect-package-manager-for-your-steam-deck

- 2024-07-24: You Don’t Need NixOS

  Why you should consider Nix Devshells and Home-Manager rather than NixOS if you want to get into Nix

  https://rasmuskirk.com/articles/2024-07-24_dont-use-nixos

The blog is custom-made, built using Nix and pandoc. The website builder is its own Nix flake:

https://github.com/rasmus-kirk/website-builder

Hi! I’d like to share my personal website: https://me.victoryhub.cc/

It’s an open-source, configurable personal website that I built to experiment with design, content structure, and long-term maintainability. The goal is to make it easy for others to fork, customize, and use as their own personal site (blog / profile / digital garden).

Source code and setup instructions are linked on the site. Feedback welcome!

https://concourse.codes - personal site (HTML/CSS, as minimal JS as possible)

https://borice.exposed - enigmatic mysterious artist website :P B)

-- various works in progress, maybe someone will find neat or helpful or dumb as hell and want to say as such lol:

https://colors.concourse.codes - crowdsource color palettes for music (wip)

https://arena.concourse.codes - fine tune nano banana from any are.na channel (pass is arena)

https://rej.concourse.codes - is MassSave environmentally just? (Massachusetts energy efficiency program)

https://newsdash.concourse.codes - latest climate news sourced across the web by gemini. lil experiment to recreate a perplexity capability for myself.

  • Your personal site has a lot of character and charm, did you do the pixel art yourself?

Stuck on Pixel Flow levels? Find step-by-step video solutions for tons of levels. Fast search, easy wins, smooth progress! pixelflowlevel.app

Love logic puzzles? Get clear video walkthroughs for Clues by Sam levels and solve tricky clues without frustration. cluesbysam.net

Playing Dreamy Room? Watch full level walkthroughs, explore every room, and finish levels stress-free. Cozy vibes included! dreamyroomlevel.org

My website is at https://mulquin.com

I used to care that I wasn't "writing enough" and that I spent more time tinkering with the code than making content. But the reality is that I'm the main audience and that anxiety was coming from potential perception of others.

Tinker away tinkerers!

https://www.rockoder.com/

I wish I’d written more. This site is almost 20 years old now. I bought the domain using a friend’s credit card because I didn’t have one back then and there was no other way to purchase online.

My site is kind of a disorganized and half-finished mess and mostly an archive for my Mastdodon account: https://kennethrapp.net

I'll be adding a lot of these to my own links page :)

And actual projects once I... finish... them.

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!

My personal blog that I write in every now and then: https://blog.mrcsharp.dev

Mostly dev-related topics but I'm trying to write about more than just that.

And btw, this is a brilliant idea. I've already found 2 sites in adding to my bookmarks.

https://wes.dev

I had this intent to make a recreation of Windows 9x for the longest time.

I wanted to implement many modern apps as Windows-like software, but ended up only implementing Bluesky (which does work pretty well), together with other fun jokes.

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.

  • Nice work! But cv can be designed better;)

    • 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 :)

https://amirmalik.net - I haven't blogged in a while, but have been experimenting with single-file build-step-free HTML tools (inspired by simonw's tool catalog) at https://amirmalik.net/tools -- I'm hoping to add more "bring your own API key" local-first mini tools that store their data in IndexedDB or OPFS and sync. I should probably write a post about it :)

Still very unfinished but the site im currently working on is https://beta.grisu.app

Once its done it will replace the automatic redirect to be a Table of Contents of sorts with buttons to redirect you.

https://penk.in/ - one day I will add a proper blog in there and testing bed for tech, but for now it is as it is. The background image is the one I took in Iceland, really proud of it

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.

Here’s mine!

https://danielfm.me

After years of neglect, I updated the theme, translated all pages to Portuguese and finally posted something new. I hope to continue this and maybe start making it an habit.

https://brajeshwar.com

I started my website in 2001, writing a lot of it, much of which is pretty embarrassing later in life, but I kept almost all of it. More often than not, I go back to read them and laugh.

In some weird way, I also feel an obligation to keep them alive for as long as I can, so that the websites linking back to mine are not greeted with a 404. I cannot disappoint the likes of Wikipedia, USA Patents, quite a few other megacorps’ websites, Russian and Chinese websites, and many others who trusted that I’m someone with a mark/presence on the Internet.

https://mldangelo.com and https://github.com/mldangelo/personal-site

I have been slowly evolving it over 10 years. 1.6k stars, ~ 1,000 forks. I originally designed it to be easy to copy, and I've occasionally interviewed someone who forked it for their own site which always makes me happy.

I have made a lot of updates recently now that the age of vibe coding is making templates less useful, but it still is and will be my playground.

My website serves as my presence on the World Wide Web: https://callumr.com/

Some photos; some philosophy; some book reviews.

The homepage bio and /now page are a little outdated---I've just returned from a three-month trip around Japan, Bali and Australia---but I plan on updating them soon!

One of my favourite pages is 'About This Website': https://callumr.com/colophon

If you visit, reach out to me and let me know what you think (contact in footer).

https://donatstudios.com/

Kind of a collection of rants, tools, and old projects... largely from before GitHub became a thing.

My site's getting kind of old and creaky, but I update it from time to time.

There's a fair number of articles that were "I ran into this problem at work, so I wrote a blog post about how I fixed it" we just had the amazing upside of having a link to send somebody when they run into the same problem. I've been told by coworkers that they found my posts googling their problems before.

https://dbohdan.com/#meta is my personal wiki. Recently added pages include the first complete transcript of "The Dragon Speech" by game designer Chris Crawford and how I made Claude rework elegiac poems into Rupi Kaur-style "Instapoetry" using Gwern Branwen's technique.

http://dbohdan.sdf.org/ is my hobby site about the SDF Public Access Unix System, the Small Internet, and NetBSD.

https://www.ziritione.org -- Started in the early ~2000s. Personal blog, sometimes too personal (I added a bunch of noindex tags instead of removing old content), covering some tech stuff over the years. Interestingly, I migrated the site to different frameworks over the years, still managing to keep most of the URLs stable and not losing any meaningful content (started with blosxom in perl, then custom solution in django and now hugo).

https://kamoshi.org/

I have written from scratch an SSG and used my website to dogfood it. A lot of it is/was experimenting and learning how web works bottom up, so it is rough around the edges nearly everywhere, but practically everything is my own work - both the website and the way it is built.

I have a lot of ideas on how the website can be made better, but there is always way more things to do than time to actually do the things...

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate this kind of efforts and I don't want to be the party p*per here.

However: I don't see the innovative idea behind this yet-another-private-blog-directory. As you correctly mentioned: There's a list for that. And just putting this list into a browsable website seems like not the step that drives serendepity or value at all.

Now people will add all their blogs, mainly to increase their reach. Fair enough. But what's the benefit for the reader?

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.

  • 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?

    • Haven't heard of Heavenly Delusion so I'm afraid I can't make any recommendations.

https://kilna.net - I knocked up a linktree type site for myself and all of my projects a while back, but the offerings out there were so obnoxiously branded even when paid... and none of them felt polished in the way I like. I did the HTML + CSS myself, and was pleased I could make it work so well on both mobile and desktop.

http://www.nuke24.net/

Most interesting pages are probably `music/` and `plog/`.

Optionally HTTPS, though some of the features don't work right due to links to files on personal servers that I haven't yet got around to the HTTPS rigamarole (they are running like 15-year-old Ubuntu and can't run Certbot; it's such a pain).

My personal site: https://dreamlux.ai — I’m building Dreamlux, an AI video generator / studio. It focuses on fast template-based creation (short clips, social formats) with a simple credit system. Would love feedback on UX/performance and what workflows you’d expect from a personal/indie-built tool.

https://hansvl.nl/

I've tried writing a few blog posts just to mostly learn about writing. Any feedback is welcome. Most posts are written to an imagined audience of people familiar with the topic.

I've also written a very basic terminal, just for laughs. It's nothing special, but I had fun making it.

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

https://jostylr.com

Links to my projects. I am a mathematician, Bohmian (quantum mechanical theory where particles have definite positions guided by the quantum mechanical wave function), Sudbury staffer, hobbyist programmer (now hobbyist manager of AI coders). Currently into exploring fully embracing families of rational intervals as real numbers.

https://tobiacavalli.com

My personal website, where I write long-form articles about topics related to chemistry and materials science.

I spend a lot of time researching and writing before posting anything. Unfortunately I don't have much time available to do that, so I don't follow a publishing schedule and my output is limited to a few posts per year.

https://nohatcoder.dk/

I don't post often, but I think what is there is quite worthwhile. It is whatever I want to write, but topics are typically maths, game theory and cryptography. There are also a few browser games.

The site itself might also be of note to some people as an example of an extremely light hand crafted website.

What came to my mind when I saw this at 625 points and 1743 comments, was "I'd love to run all these sites through my own tool that analyses websites (for tech issues)" and comment with a link to the commentor/site-owner with their own personal link for them - sort of like a technical 'mirror'). If I don't get down-voted I might just do that...

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 :)

https://www.mangialardi.it

Systems architecture blog. About 10 articles on offline-first design, constraint-driven architecture, and distributed systems thinking. Decades of experience across IoT, infrastructure, and field operations. Just launched, but building thoughtfully. Would appreciate inclusion if it fits your criteria.

Hey! I'd love to contribute to this directory. My personal website is https://sparker.co - it's my professional presence where I share thoughts on product development and the tech industry. I work in Product at You.com and am passionate about building great user experiences.

https://javiergonzalez.io/ I am wondering how to grow it. I've been writing more in spanish, and also more poetry, but it feels weird to house them in the same place as some technical and general writing. For the time being I will leave it here though.

  • I always struggle with this! I want to write about a variety of things but people who sign up for agentic coding posts aren’t looking to get notified about poetry lol

I run The Links Guy and recently pivoted away from being a DFY link building service to teaching how off-page SEO is actually changing - putting out free content, a free newsletter, and offering a paid course and consulting to those who need the next level of education.

Website: https://thelinksguy.com/

https://parkscomputing.com/

I wrote the engine for this so that I can just write bare HTML or Markdown files, put them into the content folder, update the index, and away we go. It also internally uses a JSON replacement I wrote, XferLang, so it's quite an experimental platform.

https://farrant.me

I’ve been having a lot of fun with the site in the last year-or-so. I’ve had a personal site for well over a decade now, but this is the iteration I like the most. Probably because this is the first time I’ve just built a playground for myself, and not tried to conform to what a site “should” be.

https://docodethatmatters.com It was a way for me to build, optimize, and enrich my skills around the web standards. Also, a place for me to document some of the fun projects around DSLR camera hacking, Raspberry PIs, home automations and 3d printing

https://mattsimpson.ca is my personal blog that I've been maintaining for years. I document the things I figure out, recommend some things, post my talks, display my Mastodon feed. I like it. It's my little corner of the small web.

I've never posted anything on HN before, but around this time last year I built a blog/digital garden type thing and for once actually managed to keep up the practice of maintaining, developing, and writing about it here: https://damianwalsh.co.uk

This is only semi-personal as there are other people involved but this is a creative project that I am main contributor of :)

https://aredia.neocities.org

Aredia is my project that is a mix of worldbuilding, music, and some other stuff that I feel like throwing on a website.

https://blog.kiney.de/

my blog with random thoughts on very different topics. Most articles started as twitter/X threads but I wanted to give some of them a prermanent self-hosted home.

Original language is german with english translations that are mostly done with claude.

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

I've been very sporadically adding to my website, but I have a lot more to flesh out about it (I have a lot of short notes that are just quick thoughts). I'm quite happy with my domain though, :P https://saah.as

https://dmitri.shuralyov.com/

More infrastructure than content, but in principle it’s capable of hosting Go packages, complete with a simple issue tracker and code review system. I use it myself to stream notifications from multiple sources (GitHub and Gerrit).

https://mliezun.com

Hi folks!

I'm Miguel. This is my blog I write mainly about programming and side projects.

I've written my own programming language called Grotsky, and it's implemented in Rust. The blog's engine is written with Grotksy and generates static HTML files.

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.

https://riffraff.info/

Been blogging on and off for 20 years. Most of the old stuff is on now deleted blogs (which I plan to import back one day!), so this one only has a few recent things, mostly short book reviews so I can remember what I read.

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?

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.

Mine: https://www.usebox.net/jjm/

Established in 2002.

Went full circle: static, PHP+mysql, python+tornado+redis (I had a nosql phase), python+Django+sqlite, and now static again (but this time with a generator, so it is all md).

https://leemckinnon.com/

I haven't had anything interesting to post over time, but glad I bought my domain years ago for various reasons (yikes, 2007 it looks like, 20 years?!). Will try to throw a PR up, young kids keep me busy.

https://tomverbeure.github.io/

Electronics stuff. Used to be about FPGAs, recently mostly about old test equipment.

Being doing for 8 years now and still going strong. I try to write at least one blog post every 2 months, but it’s usually more than that.

https://www.teeg.no/

An obnoxious, neon, myspace-geocities-esque personal service landing page for me and friends (with a blog!).

I hand coded it with a lot of gifs I pulled from geocities archives. And it plays 90's nu-metal!

https://maltehillebrand.de/ - I am a creative technologist, working as a freelance designer. Like every great designer, my portfolio is of course not up to date.

But it has fun features like a filter and a responsive fragment shader :)

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.

  • 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'.

https://thiic.cc

i will post within 30 days and i'll try to remember this post, and make sure the simulacra that exists within my head of the hacker news user likely to follow up is not disappointed with the content i put out

https://www.ozafu.com/

An automatically updating portfolio where images are pulled from my Unsplash profile and blog posts from my Medium profile.

It still requires some optimization, as Medium posts are imported without photos.

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!

https://testy.cool

I've been writing tutorials for multiple of my sites through the years (bytexd.com, nooblinux.com, and others), but decided recently I just want a more personal site where I mess around. It's still new though.

I've just started blogging about the random work I do over there. As a rule of thumb, I’m aiming to provide one artifact (eg open-source code) or some tangible value that readers can take away from each post.

https://schappi.com

https://duggan.ie

A personal blog with a mixture of technical posts and other essays. No AI content.

Every time I write a post I find myself adding little features here and there, which is what I always wanted to be able to do with a blog.

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 ;)

https://samf.work/

This is pretty new, and I'm still trying to figure out what it will be. For the moment it's a blog, and it's mostly my astrophotography work, with some random code and nostalgia thrown in.

https://rodyne.com/ Was my business website, and rapidly moving to my personal website now I'm retired. Just a place I document my thoughts, projects and the latest novel I have written

This is a goldmine for the AI scrapers. Not like they haven’t scraped all our sites already, but still…

https://bostik.iki.fi -- random scribblings when I feel like it. Sometimes I even have an idea for a project piece.

Content warning: the occasional cooking posts, every few years apart, are in Finnish.

My home on the web: https://manuelmoreale.com

Thank you for making this thread btw. Gonna be quite useful for me as well since I run a few blog related side projects and I might end up contacting quite a few of the people on this thread.

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)

  • For this HN post, any website is welcome. A lot of URLs have already been shared and it will take me days to go through each one and add them to the directory. I may not add every URL posted here, but this thread is still open for people to share as many links as they like.

    Also, the guideline of 100+ total votes across five or fewer posts is not a strict rule. It exists mainly to discourage submissions that point to very thin sites with little or no content. I have already made exceptions when a website has interesting content even if it has never been posted on HN or received many upvotes.

    Also, a website shared today might not meet the 100+ votes guideline now but could meet it at some point in the future. That is another reason why all personal websites are welcome in this thread. Again, this is only a guideline, not a hard rule. If a site clearly meets the criteria, I can add it quickly and save time. If it does not, I will spend a bit more time checking that it is not spam and that it genuinely has something interesting to offer.

    • err, criteria means 'required' not guidelines.

      And encouraging 'Any personal website is welcome, whether it is a blog, digital garden, personal wiki or something else entirely' but then saying you're discouraging submissions with little content etc. Who knows what people decided to put on their personal domains, ya know?

      Anyways, obviously a ton of ppl just threw in their urls here without much concern so it's up to you what you want to include. Onwards!

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I'm https://edoceo.com

I used to write a bunch about sys-admin things, then some code things, now some (very disorganized) business things. I try to blog.

My biggest claim to fame is being cited in an RFC about CSV files. Woot!

I'm currently working on a similar project to make a list of all blogs and personal sites on the web. It's not ready yet but I'll post about it when it is.

My personal site: https://sneak.berlin

https://irregex.dev

My personal blog that until recently was mostly reviews on lox bagels. I yanked out the bagel reviews for now to focus on programming topics, but need to write up some worthwhile posts.

https://mert.akeng.in

stack:

- github pages, plain html+css+js (using spectre-css)

+ sub pages are markdown, rendered directly in the browser with marked.js or markdown.js

- blog is hot-linked to notion-api

+ a simple api-key injection gateway hosted in google cloud run

    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/

https://kuyawa.net

It's in spanish but if anybody needs a hand in technology just drop me a line. In over 30 years in the field I've seen it all and I sure can help you in your project

https://nijaru.com/ - I used agents to rewrite my website in the past year. Added a space and stars theme and a projects page that pulls in pinned repos from my GitHub account.

https://riv.ar

At the time, it's mostly just a web CV (with some effort put into implementing RDFa and microformats). The intent is adding a blog section too.

I used to add interesting weekly reads, and my build-in-public updates on scaling up and eventually selling a job board.

Planning to start writing more about two of my current projects.

https://alexkirillov.com

https://piffey.net - Only content from 2020, has been down the last ~4 years due to job, but redesigned and got it up again in the last month and have lots of writing planned.

https://tasuki.org/

I have a blog, a photo gallery, a personal wiki, a comparison of Enchiridion and Tao Te Ching translations, a collection of tsumego pdfs, and a couple other things.

Nice, a bit of a small web to it!

https://fev.al

I'm mostly writing about dev nowadays, and random tech stuff I've been doing, but I have a bunch of management posts from when I forayed on the dark side.

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.

Sure thing:

https://4d4m.com

It's a portal to all the sounds I found in the future, which you can stream or download in mp3/wav without any registration or DRM.

VictorSantiago.me

Only actual update I do is to change my title / company when I change jobs, otherwise it's just a landing page to link to my GH, LinkedIn, etc. No blogs or anything exciting.

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://keiran.me

Still trying to figure out a structure I like with it. Evolved from a one page to a few additional ones. Would love insight into your opinions on it.

Do you plan to organize them somehow? Scrolling over an infinite list of personal websites in random order may be tiring...

A search engine functionality could be useful here. Algolia could dive in. Can't imagine doing better than them.

My portfolio site which is just a fun project to try to replicate Mac OS X Tiger. (You have to view on desktop or else it displays an iOS view which is way less cool).

Plenty of Easter eggs in there: https://nicksmith.software

Built using react, zustand, tailwind, and some other libraries for the genie effect and Mac hover animation, iOS view, etc… Credits are in the readme on GitHub.

My personal site that is a work in progress: https://nicholaspsmith.com

Built in Angular after having been a full time react engineer for the better part of a decade. Man I’m sick of react haha

100toolkit.com

I'm currently Chief Strategy Officer at a defence-tech startup. Doing some small angel tickets as well :)

My personal site is tmerr.com

There is one post, and I haven't shared it publicly before so that's something!

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

Hello!

This is awesome.

My blog:

Https://www.mauojeda.com

My guide about Canary Islands:

Https://www.explorethecanaryislands.es

You should try to automate the process.

Thank you!

https://ianreppel.org

  • Congratulations are in order...

    2025 Berggruen Prize Essay Competition Winners

    > On the theme of consciousness, intelligence, and the nature of mind in an age of advancing artificial systems

    https://berggruen.org/news/2025-berggruen-prize-essay-compet...

    > Honorable Mentions and Shortlisted Essays

    > The English-language jury also awarded Honorable Mentions to Ian Reppel and Helen Yetter-Chappell, recognizing their essays for originality, clarity, and thoughtful engagement with the year’s theme.

    I knew I recognised the name from somewhere :D

www.ozafu.com

An automatically updating portfolio where images are pulled from my Unsplash profile and blog posts from my Medium profile. Blog section still requires some optimization, as Medium posts are imported without images.

Hi!

Here is my blog about data analytics/engineering: datamethods.substack.com

I like to do lots of experiments :)

https://gromov.com It's a custom build dynamic website, which is a rarity this days, meant to have a commenting system and other 'advanced' features. However, as time went by I realised you need A LOT of traffic for people to engage with your stuff on your own platform. Now, I suspect, it's mostly endlessly parsed by bots - and this, quite frankly, made me abandon the idea of posting my thoughts to a 'broad' internet.

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

reachnick.co

Would love to contribute! Have some fun projects + lectures on there.

www.vassi.life

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 ;)

  • > 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 ;)

    That's the easy part. The time consuming part is reviewing each website and ensuring that it is a legitimate personal website and not a commercial website or a startup website or blogspam. There have been a fair number of such submissions that do not qualify. Since this directory is meant to be for personal websites only, we need to review each submission.

    If you or anyone else knows a quicker way to process these submissions, determine if they are suitable for this directory, extract the relevant data for each webite and convert them to the data format we need, we would very much appreciate pull requests to <https://github.com/hnpwd/hnpwd>.

    By the way, your website was added in <https://github.com/hnpwd/hnpwd/commit/a344c1a> and it is now appears at <https://hnpwd.github.io/>.

https://akcube.github.io/ - My external mind palace of sorts. 60 blogs as of today on database architecture, hpc and some quant stuff.

Tried for an "obsidian-but-tex" vibe. I hope to make this a life journal someday.

if i were you @susam, i'd use claude code to parse all these submissions into your json file! i bet opus 4.5 would do it flawlessly

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.

  • Wow, kudos for putting such an interesting community together, I've been an occasional reader for more than a decade (!!)

https://jasdeep-singh.com/ I work in tech, writing java code for an eInvoicing product, and Punjabi language cinema, writing scripts, dialogues. But this is my personal website, where I share some of my translations and essays. I am interested in natural languages, cartography, art and cinema. Last year I did a little bit of carpentry, got interested in fountain pens, I am eying to get my first pen plotter, maybe some pen plotted maps in the year to come.

PS. I am learning Persian. Hoping situation in beautiful Iran normalizes and people get their representative democracy free of IRGC and CIA-Mossad jackboots.

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

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

www.patrickdap.com

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

davided.win

I blog about my journey with music, electronic music production, and single-sided deafness.

    - Academic: www.bgoncalves.com
    - Consulting: www.data4sci.com
    - Substack: data4sci.substack.com

seanmcloughl.in

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

theprojectsomething.com

Not much, but it's something. I use subdomains for projects.

I create bold and exciting ai. Worked at Nickelodeon , Nick jr and MTV as a Designer.

Www.erosner.com And I also make dog art Www.speako.xyz