For a while my personal website https://old.habet.dev was the result of some free HTML template that i reused.
But I got board if it and wanted to to start a blog. So over the weekend I downloaded WordPress, set it up and wolla a few hours later I have fully functional site with a blog (thank g-d for open source). It was a thrill to get it going.
https://habet.dev I'd love to hear your thoughts on my site.
Totally agree as someone who has been making personal sites since I was a kid in '98. My latest iteration has been nearly 2 years in the making now. I had a WordPress blog for many years but finally decided it was time as a software developer to have a site that was custom. The core idea of the site is as if you've RDP'd into my Windows 10 machine and can see all my files and apps. Everything runs client side which was also something important to me. If interested please check it out, I nickname it daedalOS and it's also open source.
So I've recently launched http://thewp.co, which has been my current project for a few months, and I've finally got it launched. I've assembled a few developers, and got a site launched, and this is the result :-).
Would love to know your thoughts / feedback.
Edit: If anyone from HackerNews needs WordPress work, or simply front-end html/css/js, mention that you're coming from here and I'll give you a nice discount.
For a while I did not have a site. I stuck a blog up once, but that fell off as the startup picked up. Now that I have time again I wanted to make it really easy for people to understand me and my work.
So I've recently launched http://thewp.co, which has been my current project for a few months, and I've finally got it launched. I've assembled a few developers, and got a site launched, and this is the result :-).
This is perfect, thank you so much. Two-fold: I opened my site up, too, though for different reasons. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one. Mine isn't anywhere near this awesome, though, and it's just starting! And, I think I'll be able to learn a lot about the proper way to do things by seeing how you did things, like different code patterns and development decisions, etc.
As neither a professional designer or developer, I wanted a site that was very clean and easy to build (and adaptive) but shared critical information. The end result has made me quite happy.
I'm very interested in the first version you wrote.
It just seems like a good example of an MVP. You got the site up in Wordpress fairly quickly, modified it using PHP to your liking (did you have to in order to implement features), and then some python to actually do some work on the back end?
Very unclear, but I think that would be of interest to this audience.
edit: Apparently the rest of his blog is dedicated to this info so in case you are reading this, are as curious as I was, and didn't think to click around:
Or more precisely, my little site maker... It is a personal tool that I thoroughly enjoyed making, and enjoy using to write my website <https://evalapply.org>.
A caveat before any more; nobody was supposed to promote this insanity.
Like, terrible things have been done involving inotify and xdotool. But. It showed up on HN some months ago. That too while it was still, shall we say, fermenting. It got "done" some time thence, and of course one could not let the half-past just be. So here we are, for better or worse.
Thank you HN mods for helping me repost! _\\//
The README explains all, animated GIFs and whatnot. Some assorted highlights:
- shite's, ah, "business logic" (except templates) is about 300 lines of Bash, written in Functional Programming style [^]. Pipeline all the things!
- The innards won't surprise Perl/PHP/Shell gentleperson hackers from the last century.
- The local hot reloading workflow is surprisingly nice, and occasionally hilarious! No JavaScript needed.
- Full rebuilds are low performance and that's fine :)
- Pandoc is great.
- Sometimes sed and regex is exactly the HTML parser you need. *Very* sometimes.
- stdio buffering can mess you up
- jq -Rr @html # escapes HTML; what?!
... and all sorts of other stuff noted in the README and inline docs.
P.S.The commit history stops at 3-odd months ago, because I've been using a private fork for day-to-day content drafting, publishing, and layout tweaks. The "business logic" is by and large the same as the public version linked here.
I really enjoyed this. I've done the crappy wordpress thing, the redesign thing, the giving up thing... This post kind of inspired me to go back to my site and get something simple going again.
Professional blog I've ran for over 10 years now. Started it because I wanted to separate coding and more professional stuff from the rants of my personal blog.
For a while I used to get a pretty decent amount of side work from it just helping people with their Apache configs/mass redirects. Had a nice little cottage industry. It's mostly died off in the last couple years. Everyone moved to nginx?
It's built on a creaky but honestly very expressive PHP/MySQL framework I built for the company I worked for at the time, 10 years ago. Bits and pieces of it have been moved into a modern MVC and I've got a front controller that sends requests to the MVC, if that fails it falls back to the old framework. Works surprisingly well. There's also a handful of Go on the back end and the front end (WASM). It's a mess, but it's my mess. I know people like to use pre-packaged stuff these days but just fiddlin' with it is fun.
The layout of the homepage is currently a little stretched because I can't get the GitHub gists of the most recent post to behave. My homepage gets like no traffic though, so I'm not too worried. The individual page is on the other hand get quite a bit.
https://hartenfeller.dev
Started as a test of how good I am at designing a whole website (I have no design background). Now it is mostly used as my blog.
Thanks! I started with an Angelfire site back in 1998 and it's taken a long time to get to this. I always wanted to have a little miscellaneous site where people could come and play around a bit and check out some info about me if they wanted.
The idea to turn my website into a desktop environment came out of me trying to think how to present all my various content to users, and thinking how it would be easier if they could just RDP into my machine and see everything locally. Also inspiration from sites like http://www.windows93.net/, https://windows96.net/ & https://aaronos.dev/.
I've come to realize that I do want to share pictures, funny videos and all the internet has to offer, but I want to do it on my own terms and actually own what I put up until I decide to take it down.
It'll be the single place to go to find out what's going on with me. If I'm connected with you on social media that I have, you can see more details compared to random visitor.
Not super complex, just me a WordPress install and an idea.
I spent years rebuilding my site several times over, trying to appear as professional and modern as possible.
A while back I got fed up, spent about 15-20 minutes writing some basic html, and came up with a simple page. I haven't looked back since. https://danielvaughn.github.io/info/
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