Trying to collect websites that are intersting, free-standing, with a bit (or a lot) of personality. Preference given to “hand-made” websites. And to do so, all you may need is HTML.
The art of building “personal” websites is a thing of the 90s, it appears.. (See also the idea of IndieWeb).
- Joe Roberts
- For What It’s Worth [Offline]
- George Hart
- Peter Norvig — needs no introduction for anyone familiar with computer science.
- Dubno.com — a family website.
- Mark Irons’ Home Page — a huge inspiration for this page. I made a note of his passing here.
- Zuckershack — friend of MLI mentioned above.
- Boston
- kirk.is|archive by month
- HomePage for Brian Harvey (bh at cs.Berkeley.EDU) author of Simply Scheme: Introducing Computer Science
- https://blog.plover.com/
- http://www.thattommyhall.com/ creator of SICP distilled. also see his “101 Goals in 1001 days” project.
- Patterns — Gordon Brander
- Thorsten Ball — good frontpage for developer
- Laurence Tratt — good frontpage for developer
- The Murgia Hack System — good use of simple, multiple column layout.
- Jason Goldstein | Developer uses Matthew Butterick’s Equity Text typeface for body. nice.
- Jordan Vincent | UX Designer & Software Engineer
- kevinlynagh.com — very readable, text first website design.
- Gwern.net — in depth articles. in his own words — “psychology, statistics, and technology; I am best known for my writings on the darknet markets & Bitcoin, blinded self-experiments & Quantified Self analyses, dual n-back & spaced repetition … ”. Built using Hakyll.
- Dan Luu in depth articles on hardware and software engineering. (eg: Do programmers need math?, HN: the good parts)
- byuu | byuu.net — game emulator resources.
- ~hl — “an online dustbin where you leave your collected written thoughts” — someone describing this website. Programming and stuff. Arrived there via XML is almost always misused.
- Jeff Kaufman
- Fabulous Text Only Websites, 2018 Edition
- Peter Schaffter; the creator of mom groff macros.
- Evan Jones - Software Engineer | Computer Scientist
- Minid.net – Diego Martin Lafuente’s personal website & blog
- Cal Paterson, programming essays. See How a SQL database works.
- Kragen Javier Sitaker’s home page — programmer, long essay writer. Worked with him for short duration (few emails?) in 2008, when I was working for Aaron Swartz.
- John Salvatier ai and machine learning researcher. See: Reality has a surprising amount of detail
- Simplifier — diy website. plenty of projects on the homepage. hosted on neocities. really cool. This is one of the best examples of a “High Signal/ Low Ceremony” websites you can find. Even the webpages appear to be written “by hand”. Amazing. The fact that the creator did not even put a name on it makes it even more impressive.
- Piero Scaruffi’s knowledge base; over 6000 colorful pages. whew.
- JMNCO Home Page (Flounder)
- Org-mode, Emacs, and Getting Things Done hand built site of various stuff. search for his root of the website http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/ in google to see more pages. the root of his website shows a default page.
- Tom Murphy 7’s Invincible Web Page — CS person. Interesting ’90s looking design. programming languages, games, art stuff.
- Codex 99 — about art, design and history
- Words and buttons online — a growing collection of interactive tutorials, demos, and quizzes about maths, algorithms, and programming.
- Graham Duncan — via david_perell; see also Miikka Koskinen, which has long been an inspiration for this site. I am yet to incorporate the “portfolio” aspects of either site.
- Dmitry.GR — electronics projects.
- Beyond the Frame — development blog, clojure etc. uses Tufte CSS, pleasing design.
- A Universe of Sorts — math, chapellang, and clojure blog.
- Developer Roadmaps - roadmap.sh
- Felix’ Blog programming blog
- Arne Bahlo programming blog
- Beej’s Web Page, Brian “Beej Jorgensen” Hall, creator of many popular networking, and programming guides. He is using pandoc for his newer books.
- ajkprojects of asnewman
- ~hl/Hugo Landau - “an online dustbin where you leave your collected written thoughts” — someone describing this website
- Chip Huyen; well put together front page and an informative website. An excellent personal website.
- John Jacobson — programming and visual arts.
- josh avanier - code, photos, draw, generative art.
- XXIIVV — about — another member? of the 100 rabbits collective found via avanier’s page
- Brad Woods Digital Garden — Notes about creative coding on the Web; see 7GUIs
- Interactive Storytelling Tools for Writers | Chris Crawford “This website has been in operation since 1996. It is older than Google, Netflix, Facebook, and Amazon. It still runs on a server using vacuum tubes.”
Meta
- Tiny Awards “a small prize to celebrate interesting, small, craft-y internet projects and spaces which basically make the web a more fun place to be.”
- Sumit Khanna — A History of Personal and Professional Websites — nice recollection of his websites ’90s to now.
- Show your personal websites | Lobsters Jan 2020. Interesting collection of websites, mostly static (expected, considering its a lobste.rs user).
- HN
- www.marginalia.nu @ marginalia.nu — search engine (” DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren’t aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed.”), encyclopedia(“This is a what-if experiment in web design: What if we designed web-sites according to print principles, an experiment in web design, a high-readability, low-distraction encyclopedia with design choices such as narrow column widths, high line-spacing and a consistent typeface.”), website explorer(“This is a game where you explore more or less random and obscure websites around the Internet, based on the database of the Marginalia Search Engine.”)
- twitter thread “Reply with a link to the best web dev portfolio you’ve seen”
- Webring by Avanier; see also applianceri.ng - Appliance Ring
- What to keep in mind while making websites — Rediscovering the Small Web - Neustadt.fr by Parimal Satyal.
- Protoweb — a community-driven public service that hosts historical Internet websites to demonstrate the Internet in its early days. Its goal is to rebuild and restore early Internet services to offer a seamless browsing experience.
- neugierig.org, site of Evan Martin, who blogs about programming and technical topics ( Chrome, Jujutsu etc.,)
Related
- Search engine for searching people’s personal websites: https://wiby.me/
- Text-only websites by Sijmen J. Mulder
- Into the Personal-Website-Verse · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer
Portals
- Zoroastrianism portal.
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