A love letter to the personal website

A reflection of your personality in HTML and CSS (and a little bit of JS, as a treat). This could be a professional portfolio, listing your accomplishments. It might be a blog where you write about things that matter to you. It could even be something very weird and pointless (even better) – I love a good single-joke website. Ultimately, it's your space and you can do whatever you want with it. It can be a single-joke website.

On the other side, it is now intimidating to be a newcomer now with all these frameworks. They skip right over the basics.

The website we use today for fun are also businesses. They need an account to view the content. They have a barrier to entry.

Your website, your rules. There's no reply guys on your own website if you want to. it doesn't have the downsides of Twitter.

You can be a creator anywhere on the internet these days, but there's only a small handful of places where you actually own your own content. Your own website is one of them.

Now AI is generating slop. During the talk, Maggie asks: is there a future in which we need to have some kind of "reverse Turing test" to prove our humanity on the internet?

The whole point of WWW is to be decentralised and independent. It was released as an open standard so that access could be as democratic as possible.

To bring the WWW spirit back, we can carve out our own individual spaces on the web. HTML is accessible, and there are many web services to build websites nowadays. So why aren't we doing it? we don’t build websites for ourselves like we used to, we build them for the audiences we want.

Try something. For the nerds: try out. The site deploys in less than 30s. Try new CSS things as lomng as you rely on progressive enhancement.

The personal site isn't dead. It's just been forgotten in the commercialised, capitalist web of today. We owe it to ourselves to rediscover this lost art. [...] So, once again my digital call to arms: build your own website. Make it fun. Make it pointless. But most importantly: make it yours.

Appendix: look at these cool websites

An example of /supporters page for the slash pages

My tasks at work has me looking up the two-letter country codes a lot recently. My goto is the ISO-3166-1 alpha 2 page on Wikipedia, but getting there involves a few clicks, a web-search, and a “find on page.” I wanted an easier way to get to this list, and a much easier way to filter it. I also wanted something that could work as a Vivaldi side panel, so that I can call it up while I’m looking at something else.

The web page: https://2lcc.lmika.app/

• das Projekt wird mit dem UI-Library auf Gedeih und Verderb ausgeliefert
• Wie gut passen sie zur eigenen Corporate Identity beziehungsweise zum eigenen Corporate Design?

wir eher davon abraten würden, eine solche Library einzusetzen, einfach um zu vermeiden, dass man sich in eine große Abhängigkeit begibt, sich den Weg in die Zukunft verbaut und sich die Möglichkeit für individuelle Anpassungen nimmt.

Aus eigener Erfahrung kann ich sagen, dass dies zum einen gar nicht so teuer ist, wie viele immer annehmen, und dass die größten Kosten in Bezug auf Mobile, Accessibility und so weiter nicht in der Implementierung, sondern in der Konzeption der Benutzerführung anfallen. Und diese Kosten entstehen ja ohnehin, ob nun mit oder ohne UI-Library.

Es ist oft gar nicht so sinnvoll, auf eine UI-Library zu setzen, sondern man sollte viel häufiger eigene UI-Komponenten entwickeln. Das ist sehr viel weniger aufwendig als oft angenommen. Und der Vorteil ist: Man hat die volle Kontrolle, bleibt flexibel, bleibt unabhängig und vermeidet langfristig zahlreiche Probleme.

UI-Libraries können gut passen, wenn sie 100% zu den Anforderungen passen.

A blog post.
An RSS feed for it.
An index.html.

Then more blog post.

How a webpage can work for everyone

An index of the web!

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Internet Explorer était en situation de monopole. Google Chrome le devient.

Derrière la grande magie du site internet se déploient des dizaines, des centaines d’outils de l’ombre qui ont en charge de faire transiter l’information à travers le monde. Ce sont les rouages de l’horloge, les lutins du Père Noël, les molécules du nuage : toujours là, mais rarement visibles.

• They are memorable
• They can be typed or said
• They looks nicer. They're aesthetic. They show care.
• They remove the middle-man: only the URL can be used!
• They are enough: using 36 characters with 4 character URLs give 1.679.616 unique combinations

Here’s how I do it: Save my HTML file as the URL name, with no extension. Instead of “hi.html”, I save it as “hi” in my public web root.

Then, assuming the Nginx web server, add this line to my http block: default_type text/html;

Another metadata tag parser tailored by Rob Knight.

It adds icon and colors definition.

Check meta tags (image, title and description) for OG cards, google preview, twitter cards and more

::target-text for text highlighted by a URL among other things

I'm defining The Computational Web by the increasingly massive amounts of computing required to run the modern Internet, thanks to AI and decentralized technologies and the elite group of tech firms that can meet those demand