I made something like with a similar aesthetic a few years ago but themed after win95 (which seems to be hardly unique these days). But it had a secret gimmick where aspects of it were implemented with in terms of itself (mostly, file icons could be edited within app and you could see them update on the desktop).

I had grand plans for it but they never eventuated.

https://resume.akst.io/

https://i.imgur.com/YJ4hsCK.png

I had the same concept for mine but it is Mac OS X Tiger (iOS on mobile breakpoints).

https://nicksmith.software

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29779753

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38830132

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44088777

Amazing work on this website! It encourages exploration and navigating the folders to see all the content.

I clicked the link and assumed that you must have been using some JS OS UI library because of how nice it was.

This is impressive!

https://map.simonsarris.com - My newsletter site

https://garden.simonsarris.com - My garden designer site. Currently making this so anyone can use it! Public alpha at the end of the month I hope.

https://meetinghouse.cc - My site for helping twitter users find each other

https://carefulwords.com - My very fast thesaurus site

This would be nice for Bluesky. I deleted my account on Twitter after it turned into a hellscape.

Do you keep geese?

I noticed that tree sizes go to 200 if you put nonsense on the field (text emoticon etc).

I have kept ducks (meat) and chickens (eggs) at various times, but I ate all the ducks and I gave away the chickens just last month. Unfortunately free ranging chickens have been very destructive to my gardening, and I am trying to make the 2nd largest rose garden in NH, so that goal has priority.

Also, what’s a 5k?

thanks

If you click on it the scene creates more objects by the way. And if you right-click and drag you can move them around.

It's a simple "business card" page built with Angular and 98.css.

Been thinking of upgrading to plain vanilla js, xp.css and maybe some static site generation or CMS thingy for blog posts

I kinda love the intentional dithering on the photos though.

http://localhost:8080/

You should automate this, maybe drive all of these content from a json file and accept PRs.

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My blog: https://nabraj.com/

Most popular: Why is boarding a plane still a mess? (https://nabraj.com/blog/boarding-methods)

I'm not a great designer, but I've tried to capture the who, what and jump off points for reading my writing as well as I could. Always impressed by the creativity and soul many other folks seem able to put into their personal homepages!

Thank you for sharing all these years.

I'll be happy if any of it was helpful :)

The site covers mostly retro- and classic computing. (Strictly no AI generated content.) Here in convenient format:

  (
    :name "Norbert Landsteiner"
    :site "https://masswerk.at/"
    :blog "https://masswerk.at/nowgobang/"
    :feed "https://masswerk.at/nowgobang/feed.xml" //covers blog only
    :about "https://masswerk.at/info/"             //legal info
    :hnuid "masswerk"
    :bio "web developer and designer, site content is mostly retro- and classic computing."
  )

Actually a bit of an issue, its so capable, I actually have difficulty justifying a downloadable alternative, even though I'd prefer to have a local copy due to the untrustworthiness of web apps over time.

Thank you so much for your work.

https://news.onbrn.com - Personal "blog", if you can call it that

https://ministories.net - Personal list of short Stories to read quickly, and think slowly

https://snozmusic.com - Personal website for my music producer "persona"

https://poemasparacriancas.com - Personal list of poems, in Portuguese, written for kids

Some parts of it are in French, typically the teaching section, which is primarily aimed at my students.

My blog (in French) is at https://p4bl0.net/. It's a new version that's live since 2021 but this domain has been hosting my blog since 2006. I had a blog before that but the hosting service I used has long been dead.

My blog runs on Dotclear (a very good open source PHP+MySQL blog engine) with a homemade theme.

My website runs on a hand written static site generator made of a Makefile and Bash scripts relying on the xml2 and 2xml commands, and coreutils in between them (especially sed). Those are automatically executed by a Git hook on my server to update the website on push. It's been like this since the beginning so I have the full history of my website's version back up to 2008 (I'm not even sure GitHub Pages were a thing back then!). It's fun to sometimes go back and see how it looked like almost 20 years ago.

I strongly oppose writing with LLMs and think it's more important than ever to write with our own words. If my writing is to be better than LLMs I need to hone it by writing more.

I'm proud of the website as well. I have used LLMs to assist with the UI dev. It has all 100s from PageSpeed. I've made it so it's easy to add pages within. All the books I've read in the last few years [1] and a minimalist gym tracker I use myself (any anyone can too!).

[1] - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[2] - https://nindalf.com/books

[3] - https://nindalf.com/gym

This is probably a "me" problem for assuming otherwise (you even have HN in your URL), but it's not what I expected from a post asking people to share their personal websites.

edit: judging by the number of personal website links posted here that do not meet that criteria, it appears I was not the only one with the wrong impression.

Yes, I was not entirely happy with the restrictive wording either. The original requirement was added mainly out of concern about spam submissions (blogspam, AI-generated content and similar). But the quality of submissions has been surprisingly good and I am genuinely delighted by the number of interesting websites I have came across in the last few hours.

So I have gone ahead and removed the overly restrictive criteria language.

> Was hoping it would be a way to stumble upon potentially underrepresented content from folks in the hacker news community who don't normally get attention.

Yes, that was exactly my intention as well. Thanks for raising this concern. It gave me the push to update the README and make the intent clearer.

I mentioned in a sibling thread that this requirement was originally added out of caution, mainly to discourage spam submissions. It no longer seems necessary, and I was not entirely happy with it either, so I have removed it now. Thanks for the discussion here, which prompted me to drop the restrictive requirement.

https://webring.theoldnet.com

There's also geekring.net that is similar, and a few others that are still actively updated.

I still prefer WebRings for finding good personal sites, it has that old-web "exploration and discovery" type feeling that makes it actively satisfying to find new sites.

Everyone think of a number between 0~9, put it in a bracket (so that it's search-friendly), and add it to their post, e.g. "[7] check out my example.com".

Readers of this thread are then encouraged to search for a random number between 0~9, search for it (e.g., "[5]") via browser, do a few "find next" (just to randomize), and then visit as many results as they enjoy.

The main ones are:

https://diving.anardil.net/ - Scuba diving picture gallery; organized by timeline, common name, taxonomy, and more

https://dnd.anardil.net/ - Artifacts from my groups' D&D games

https://pirates.anardil.net/ - Pirate insult generator

https://alchemy.anardil.net/ - Morrowind (TES 3) alchemy calculator

I made this about 5 years ago with just html and a-frame. The cms is an inline json file. It has aged really well!

Why would anyone want to fold flower petals into origami? I guess you'll have to read it to find out.

  A collection of free decision-making tools I built:                                             
  - Decision Wheel (customizable spinning wheel)                                                  
  - Coin Flip (yes/no decisions)                                                                  
  - Tarot Reading (with AI interpretations)                                                       
  - Magic 8 Ball                                                                                  
                                                                                                  
  Features: AI-powered result analysis (OpenAI), 10 languages, dark/light themes, mobile          
  responsive.                                                                                     
                                                                                                  
  Tech: Next.js 15, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Supabase.

https://borice.exposed - enigmatic mysterious artist website :P B)

-- various works in progress, maybe someone will find neat or helpful or dumb as hell and want to say as such lol:

https://colors.concourse.codes - crowdsource color palettes for music (wip)

https://arena.concourse.codes - fine tune nano banana from any are.na channel (pass is arena)

https://rej.concourse.codes - is MassSave environmentally just? (Massachusetts energy efficiency program)

https://newsdash.concourse.codes - latest climate news sourced across the web by gemini. lil experiment to recreate a perplexity capability for myself.

My site [3] hosts my technical services but I also write about technology on my publications section [0]. I also wrote an article on growing up with home computers[1]

[0]: https://scottRlarson.com/publications

[1]: https://www.scottrlarson.com/memorials/

[3]: https://www.scottrlarson.com

my pride and joy with many easter eggs, including:

- random post surfacing

- animated book progress html [1]

- creative code [2]

- code poetry [3]

and much more!!

1 - https://www.bramadams.dev/book-progress-1-11-26/

2 - https://www.bramadams.dev/202308081300/

3 - https://www.bramadams.dev/202306131131/

Recreated at the end of the year. No writing yet but some of my current projects are listed at https://tbhb.dev/projects/

You have to use docker compose to get to localhost:8000 , there are still bugs but I'm working on it and there was interest expressed in this project on Hacker News a couple of weeks back.

I wish I’d written more. This site is almost 20 years old now. I bought the domain using a friend’s credit card because I didn’t have one back then and there was no other way to purchase online.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balearic_Catalan

I'm a turntablist and scratch DJ, been running my site since 2006. I mix and dj mainly old rave stuff and old hip hop. I'm oldskool in that i like to provide free mp3 and even flac versions of my mixes, and I don't just rely on another walled garden type service.

I don't update that site as frequently as i should.

But i'm planning to add a lot more music to it later this year and maybe some video/visual mixes which I've been working on.

As for me Photography - https://travisbumgarner.photography Engineering - https://travisbumgarner.dev

If anyone has any leads on a comment system that isn't a spam magnet and also works acceptably with a static site, I'm all ears.

There are different hosted-by-us and openai powered spam classifiers, depending on what different communities care about.

I've tried writing a few blog posts just to mostly learn about writing. Any feedback is welcome. Most posts are written to an imagined audience of people familiar with the topic.

I've also written a very basic terminal, just for laughs. It's nothing special, but I had fun making it.

- https://powerplan.io A B2B shiftplanning saas for managing workforces

- https://speedcubetimer.io Offile first speed cubing site for tracking times

- https://20srule.com A chrome extension that enables better browsing habbits

- https://whitehat.oliver-brodersen.com/ A modern, all-in-one page HN wrapper

there is a game of life in the background

https://wanderinglines.art/

Context: I started from an existing Bootstrap gallery template and stripped it down to the bare minimum. The site is static with all the sorting and grouping done client-side. Images are just files in a folder, with metadata in a JSON file. Adding a new piece is just dropping in an image and updating the JSON. It’s hosted on GitHub Pages with a cheap domain from Namecheap.

https://aaronholbrookmusic.com

It's a blog, where I write about compilers, formal verification, and programming languages mostly. Occasionally some web design (with Hugo) sneaks in.

The idea is to aggregate weak signals instead of long reviews.

https://www.vincheck.ro/experience

I got pretty interested in 3d|2d graphics and retro aesthetics 2 years ago.

I appreciate your efforts! I love stumbling across personal sites. I put together a list of other personal site directories some time ago [0]. I'll be adding this post to that list!

[0] https://nelson.cloud/how-i-discover-new-blogs/

simple website with raymarched backgrounds :)

https://afolkestad.com/art.html

My personal blog and resume. I have written a couple of blog-posts:

- 2025-06-18: Lasso Transactions as an alternative to Copyright

  A Solution to Fund Creativity and Combat the Free-Rider Problem in a World Without Copyright.

  https://rasmuskirk.com/articles/2025-06-18_lasso-transactions-as-an-alternative-to-copyright

  An article exploring the benefits of using Nix on the Steam Deck, with a step-by-step guide to installation and configuration using Home Manager.

  https://rasmuskirk.com/articles/2024-12-23_why-nix-is-the-perfect-package-manager-for-your-steam-deck

  Why you should consider Nix Devshells and Home-Manager rather than NixOS if you want to get into Nix

  https://rasmuskirk.com/articles/2024-07-24_dont-use-nixos

https://github.com/rasmus-kirk/website-builder

{Insert Post-LLM Internet sadness for good intentions here}

One early post that charted my path:

https://christopheradams.io/posts/2016/11/25/what-happens-wh...

https://richardmichels.dev/

This post made me finally push something "to prod", as you can see from the repo numbering it's been a while. Never chase perfection. https://github.com/gioppix/portfolio5

"hosted on a web space where [I] have full control over its design and content,"

Mainly used to share files

I use http://127.1.1.1/clip on Chromebooks to share the clipboard in the graphical layer with the TTYs at Ctrl-Alt-{F1,F2,F3} (not the janky crap at Ctrl-Alt-T) or other computers on the LAN

At the time, it's mostly just a web CV (with some effort put into implementing RDFa and microformats). The intent is adding a blog section too.

It’s an open-source, configurable personal website that I built to experiment with design, content structure, and long-term maintainability. The goal is to make it easy for others to fork, customize, and use as their own personal site (blog / profile / digital garden).

Source code and setup instructions are linked on the site. Feedback welcome!

I've always been interested with what it's like working with 3D scenes, so I thought it would be a good time to learn something over the holidays.

If anyone is a guitar player and has experience making tabs, here's another project as well! https://www.autostrum.com/

https://notes.bayindirh.io -> Digital garden.

https://blog.bayindirh.io -> Blog.

Main site contains some other links to various places.

I put together my website to collect all my projects in a single place and occasionally post some random thoughts.

I’m definable gonna to share the klondike solitaire one around https://ganbaru.games/klondike/

Started off as a programming blog, then along the way it turned into more of a life and hiking blog.

Blog https://drshapeless.com/blog

I have been maintaining it for a few years, though not very actively.

Most popular: https://www.thomas-huehn.com/myths-about-urandom/

Most interesting, IMO: https://www.thomas-huehn.com/deming/

The article that I think is most important is https://iambateman.com/tiny and the most popular is https://iambateman.com/articles/billboards

A couple of other sites that I maintain for side projects: https://quantumfaxmachine.com https://whatnext.dev https://playprolix.com

And my "own-my-own-stack" personal CMS that I use to host all of my sites: https://laksa.io

I need to move my personal blog (https://meanderingthoughts.hashnode.dev/) over there still, sadly HN auto flags any submissions from any hashnode domain so I've been unable to submit any of my blog posts for consideration!

https://marginalia-search.com/site/nhobb.com?view=info

And link to sites you like!

I used to care that I wasn't "writing enough" and that I spent more time tinkering with the code than making content. But the reality is that I'm the main audience and that anxiety was coming from potential perception of others.

Tinker away tinkerers!

I had this intent to make a recreation of Windows 9x for the longest time.

I wanted to implement many modern apps as Windows-like software, but ended up only implementing Bluesky (which does work pretty well), together with other fun jokes.

Personal sculpting website and shop, also has a blog covering everything from starting sculpting, to forming an LLC, and growing from there: https://shapeshiftersculpting.com

https://aldi-prices.lawruk.com/ - A more reecent grocery prices side project

https://shaheedabdol.co.za/

Site: https://www.evalapply.org/

Blog: https://www.evalapply.org/posts/

Feed: https://www.evalapply.org/index.xml

Custom generator: https://github.com/adityaathalye/shite

EvalApply.org also made mtlynch's annual list (mind blown)!

The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46478377

He has kindly CC0-licensed his data: https://github.com/mtlynch/hn-popularity-contest-data ... Perhaps you can use it to seed your site.

Mostly dev-related topics but I'm trying to write about more than just that.

And btw, this is a brilliant idea. I've already found 2 sites in adding to my bookmarks.

Once its done it will replace the automatic redirect to be a Table of Contents of sorts with buttons to redirect you.

Also you and others interested perhaps might like to check out the XXIIVV webring: https://github.com/XXIIVV/webring

I'm a software architect with 23 years of professional experience, mainly in C#/.NET environments, and I currently lead a development team. Over the years, my focus has shifted from purely technical excellence to the human side of software development: communication, decision-making, responsibility, and sustainable performance. In parallel to my tech career, I trained as a licensed psychological counsellor and supervisor in Austria, Vienna. Today, I work with individuals and teams on topics like leadership, mental load, clarity in roles, burnout prevention, and turning reflection into action, especially in complex, high-responsibility environments such as software teams. My work bridges structured engineering thinking with psychological depth and practical implementation.

AMA!

> UPDATE: It is going to take a while to go through all the submissions and add them. If you'd like to help with the process, please send a PR directly to this project

Just run this Python script then paste the output into your pwd.lisp file. You're welcome :)

https://chatgpt.com/share/6968f169-c868-8006-8824-6ba0f2b433...

Just a static page deployed on Cloudflare Pages. Last year I added multiple funny features to it (you can open vim there!), but the UI is the same since 2021.

If you are interested in how it's built, here's the template I prepared https://github.com/tiulpin/kotlin-cv.js

Old web site with writing projects:

https://meadhbh.hamrick.rocks/

Newer web site with design experiments:

https://www.bi6.us/

Some photos; some philosophy; some book reviews.

The homepage bio and /now page are a little outdated---I've just returned from a three-month trip around Japan, Bali and Australia---but I plan on updating them soon!

One of my favourite pages is 'About This Website': https://callumr.com/colophon

If you visit, reach out to me and let me know what you think (contact in footer).

Project list: https://www.gingerbeardman.com Blog: https://blog.gingerbeardman.com

currently working on a redesign and would love to hear your feedback:

https://redesign.u11g.com/

https://amontalenti.com/feed - rss+atom feed

https://amontalenti.com/archive - full archive of posts/essays

https://amontalenti.com/about - info about me

See GitHub PR here: https://github.com/hnpwd/hnpwd.github.io/pull/32

I have been slowly evolving it over 10 years. 1.6k stars, ~ 1,000 forks. I originally designed it to be easy to copy, and I've occasionally interviewed someone who forked it for their own site which always makes me happy.

I have made a lot of updates recently now that the age of vibe coding is making templates less useful, but it still is and will be my playground.

I started my website in 2001, writing a lot of it, much of which is pretty embarrassing later in life, but I kept almost all of it. More often than not, I go back to read them and laugh.

In some weird way, I also feel an obligation to keep them alive for as long as I can, so that the websites linking back to mine are not greeted with a 404. I cannot disappoint the likes of Wikipedia, USA Patents, quite a few other megacorps’ websites, Russian and Chinese websites, and many others who trusted that I’m someone with a mark/presence on the Internet.

And a few projects I’m working on:

- https://configmesh.app utility for syncing dotfiles + application configs

- https://fixmyjapanese.com AI powered grammar correction teacher for Japanese

- https://microfn.dev Toolbox and cloud runner for tiny composable JavaScript functions

My research work (lots of fun working on the aesthetics for this one): https://newdesigncongress.org

And threat modelling company: https://parare.al

Has been fun so far!

https://www.potluria.com

I only have one blog post, it's effectively a host for my resume and there's a lot of work to do to make it nicer. For one, while I'm trying to convey an aesthetic with the three.js-powered background, it is _not_ performant on some devices. Choosing a SPA architecture in order to keep the background seamless is also biting me in the butt. From an SEO perspective, for example, I can't implement proper OpenGraph metadata on the blog posts since crawlers don't execute JS.

I'm happy though. I'm excited to make it a long-lived shrine.

https://unblogcristiano.com/

Tried for an "obsidian-but-tex" vibe. I hope to make this a life journal someday.

https://flags.gg feature flags system

https://interviews.tools interview planner

https://1tn.pw stupidly simple url shrinker

https://retroboard.dev a retro board and sprint poker system

That's my blog. I have opinions on software, make a couple of apps and patch other people programs when I like them enough.

People here liked https://smagin.fyi/posts/cross-site-requests/ this post the most.