Nice personal website

This is kind of a scrapbooky thing that collects all kinds of stuff about having a nice personal website if Gemini is too restrictive for what you want to do.

First published January 7, 2025.

Most recently updated March 6, 2025.

Not just the website, but an entire server underneath as well

LandChad.net, a site that will show you how to set up not just a website but a full server underneath it (but please, you shouldn’t start running your own email server unless you’re ready for the final boss of internet server maintenance)

Websites in general

Shannon Kay, “Make Your Own Website”

figma.com, “Making space for a handmade web”

Rachel By The Bay, “Web page annoyances that I don’t inflict on you here”

Nora Reed, “The Website Manifesto”

Xandra at 32-Bit Cafe, “Creating Your Own Website”

Star at 32-Bit Cafe, “Ideas for Your Personal Website”

tadiweb (contains a subtle introduction to the notion that you can polish things up over time)

Sophie Koonin, “This page is under construction: A love letter to the personal website”

Blogs in particular

Hugh Rundle, “You should get a blog”

Henrik Karlsson, “Advice for a friend who wants to start a blog”

md2blog, a single-file blog maker with very little configuration offered

Actually just writing anywhere, not even necessarily in public

James Somers, “More people should write” (thinking “I’m going to write about this later” makes you approach life differently and presumably better)

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