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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.
