Tag personal-website

In this post, I talk about pleasant but seemingly minor features in personal sites

I’ve been a huge advocate for independent blogging for a while now, both for personal and professional reasons. In fact, I’ve written countless replies to early-career folks about documenting their …

One of my favourite things to do in my free time is to tinker with this website. Indeed, this website is the culmination of years of tinkering. I have added features like coffee shop maps that I can share with friends, a way for me to share my bio in two languages, a sitemap.xml file to help search engines find pages on my website, and more.

Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and developer from Stuttgart, Germany. Besides design practice he teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Kiel.

This is the 7th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Ana …

I spend an unreasonable amount of time making sure my blog renders well even if CSS isn't loaded. Whether it's a dodgy Internet connection, a text-only browser, or something else - it's nice knowing that my blog is in a logical order and perfectly usable without decorations. So fire up Lynx or w3m and take a look at your site. What do you need to change?

Software engineer and artist

Posted on 2022-09-12

I'm so socially awkward about working on my personal site in public (e.g. planes, trains or cafés) that I made an "awkward mode" to hide any content about me

Joe Bell (@joebell_)Sun, 21 Aug 2022 15:48 +0000

Great points by @type__error at Fullstack eXchange #FullStackX

Keren K (@KerenKenzi)Wed, 27 Jul 2022 10:44 +0000

Laying out the goals & principles for my site

Oof! Just pushed out my first redesign on my site in several years. 🙈 Would love to know what y'all think. 💙 marcusnoble.co.uk

Marcus Noble (@Marcus_Noble_)Mon, 02 May 2022 13:35 +0000

I built a personal site! Though it's always "in-progress" where I keep reiterating, adding new stuff, changing the styles, etc. But I'm ready to show it to the world :D Made using @nextjs, hosted on @vercel, here's a thread of features my site has:

Aayush Sahu (@aayushmau5)Fri, 29 Apr 2022 23:43 +0000

https://twitter.com/sereedmedia/status/1499089133263679488

Where people write articles on their own website.

Stephanie Stimac 🔮 Web Witch (@seaotta)Wed, 02 Mar 2022 18:32 GMT

I added a bit (!) of colour to my site! 👩🏼‍🎨🎨 carol.gg/blog/site-rebu…

Carol 🌻 (@CarolSaysThings)Sun, 24 Oct 2021 10:33 +0000

every weekend, I say to myself "I will finish my personal website and deploy it" every weekend, I lay on the couch doing nothing instead today, my domain auto-renewed

Kat Cosgrove (@Dixie3Flatline)Sat, 22 May 2021 13:59 +0000

https://twitter.com/krisnova/status/1394774911982268416

#IndieWeb is cool. You'd need to add a micropub endpoint to your blog that could handle standard requests + get IndieAuth set up which is fairly trivial unless you want to build your own. I'm slowly trying to add all these to my own blog. indieweb.org

#BLM 🏳️‍🌈 Aaron Crowder (@CrowderSoup)Tue, 18 May 2021 22:38 +0000

https://twitter.com/dileepkush/status/1394777793687261184

List of other clients supported by microblog. You can host a dedicated one for yourself if you want. indieweb.org/Micropub/Clien…

dileep (@dileepkush)Tue, 18 May 2021 22:15 +0000

I finally convinced my very talented work buddy @kevinpaxton82 to make his own site, and 1 day in it already looks ✨ amazing ✨ kevinpaxton.com

Carol 🌻 (@CarolSaysThings)Fri, 14 May 2021 09:09 +0000

I finally figured out what colours I want to use for my site rebuild. Just need to get off the sofa now, any minute now 😅

Carol 🌻 (@CarolSaysThings)Sun, 10 Jan 2021 12:46 GMT

I've spent a little of my "productive" time tonight stripping back my blog to a basic UI. I want to make changes, but they're going to be small and over time, so I keep the noise to a minimum. I already feel better about it.

Steven Pears (@StevenPears)Thu, 07 Jan 2021 21:17 GMT

I don't like looking at analytics too much because it deters me away from focusing on the quality of my blog posts, but it's that time of year where I have a quick peak! This is how 2020 compares to last year. 🤯 Thank you all for taking the time to follow along💜 #bypawlean https://t.co/x3j5wjFAB8

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https://twitter.com/paulienuh/status/1209469007839080449

👋🏻 So many new friends, hey! Thanks for reading. 💪🏼 My annual health post is always very popular (it is that random spike in users, this year it was 400) ✨ "Normal" posts get about 40-50 views ⏰ People aren't just clicking away instantly - thanks for reading my essays lol

Pauline is taking a break 😴 (@paulienuh)Tue, 24 Dec 2019 13:40 GMT

Pauline is taking a break 😴 (@paulienuh)Wed, 23 Dec 2020 18:08 GMT