Ask HN: Care to share your personal site?

I write mostly about Python and everything related to it. I decided to create a blog because I wanted to improve my writing skills, English is not my first language and writing in English would be an opportunity to improve it, hopefully.

I'm trying to be consistent and I release two articles a month, one every other week.

The first version I used Hugo but I noticed that I was spending a long time tweaking it and not writing a single word. Then I found https://hashnode.com and gave it a go. They are a blogging as a service and it abstracts away most of the things that I was fighting with. The downsides is that it's not fully configurable but that's the price I decided to pay. But for basic stuff like domain name, analytics, newsletter it works out the box.

It is in German, sorry.

I wanted to have an aesthetically pleasing representation of my professional persona with my favourite color scheme.

Actually I have it on GitHub: https://github.com/domano/homepage-2021

Nextjs Tailwind Private 4 node k3s cluster with DNS Round robin.

This was the first website I ever wrote in my life back in my engineering study days during 2001-2005. It was originally written in plain handcrafted HTML + CSS. Some of the server side scripts were written in Classic ASP back then.

Now it is just a static blog generated by my own Common Lisp program. The comment form is served by Common Lisp + Hinchentoot. All HTML and CSS is still handcrafted. Check out the source code at https://github.com/susam/maze.

For me this has been a quick way to share notes, thoughts, experiments, etc.

I started with just some HTML and CSS, and later shoe-horned it into a Hugo template which required some awful custom theme hacks.

> But I'm also curious about what stack was used to make your site. I've looked at static site generators, but none I found felt right to me. I guess it's one of those cases where if there is no clear winner, then the problem hasn't really been solved yet.

It's fairly simple to create your own static site generator in any programming language with different tradeoffs, I think that is one of the main reasons why there are so many out there. It's about the content and your visitors won't care which framework you used anyway - so just pick one and be done with it. You can port your content over if you ever want to switch.

Due to personal reasons had to pause publishing for quite some time. Had really encouraging talk this week with one of the more visible members of my local tech community who shared some really actionable blogging tips with me.

If you are looking for an accountability buddy blogging wise feel free to ping me.

This is my app portfolio and interactive CV

- App and all backend APIs scale to zero (Cloud Run is hosted Knative)

- PHP WebSocket server used by the chat application (single instance of PHP CLI maintains app state) with a chatbot that is integrated into Google Dialogflow

- Zero-cost asynchronous worker runs for the lifespan of the running WebSocket server container

- Server-side rendering implemented using Symfony Twig

- MVC without the M (clear separation of concern/backend components)

- RequireJS implemented on the frontend

- CV integrated into the Request Interview API that ships as a microservice

As a designer I would find myself messing with the design all the time, I told myself that I had to use the default WordPress theme with a tiny amount of little CSS tweaks (font size, color) and that that it. The good thing is that it updates seamlessly.

Netlify + Hugo + minimal CSS + minimal JavaScript.

It's more for generating leads for freelance website/app design work but I want to try to get into blogging at some point.

I would recommend Hugo. It's simple, super fast and not overloaded with distracting setup and features. You shouldn't need much besides a landing page + blog page with shared header and footer. Don't overthink it.

I write mostly about random nonsense but I do want to get more technical eventually. This is my first year blogging in a long time so it's mostly been about getting into the groove and developing a voice.

Using a very basic static site generator written in Python, very less CSS and minimal HTML templates.

I have another account that I use HN not tied to my name.

If you want to try Hugo out, feel free to clone this repo: https://github.com/cpach/piper – It’s a very simple skeleton and you don’t even need a theme for it.

For hosting I warmly recommend AWS Amplify + GitHub.

It's a pretty informal blog (and it's very unpolished). It's a standard Elixir/Phoenix app which polls GitHub Issues which is actually where my blog posts are stored (I'm basically leveraging it to do syntax highlighting, markdown to HTML compilation and eventually comments)

https://petmanson.com

I set it up on GitBook, wrote a few posts then lost interest for a long while. Maybe I'll have something new to post again. The last thing I posted (I think) was about keyboard layouts and what matters or doesn't.

Written in pure HTML, no CSS. I wrote a Python script to combine and minimize some of the HTML parts, so that I could have constant header/nav elements without copy and pasting.

Regarding the stack, it's just a simple NextJS app hosted on Netlify.

I bought the domain forever ago. It's just my little corner of the internet. Sometimes I do blog posts, sometimes I create pages to share pictures or use for evites.

Works better than a resume if you're already communicating with a potential client. Also better when you want friends to refer you.

https://mindcrime.github.io/

I use a static site generator that I've modified with features that I needed!

https://www.dyingtowrite.com/

Even though there is mostly old content.