I recently acquired sonrel.me thinking it could finally be the occasion to build a personal page, although I'm still not convinced of how useful it is.
To those of you who have a personal website/page: would you say it's useful? Whether or not, how so?
Additional questions:
- What kind of site do you have? A simple page about you? CV-like? Portfolio? Other?
- What techs/stack do you use?
Bonus points for links! 😉
P.S.: I don't consider blogs "personal pages", it is for me a different kind of site with a totally different kind of purpose.
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I combined the personal site with a blog, probably I will add subdomains with custom sites with my work, services and so on in the next years.
It is useful as an identity, is one link to group them all. Is on my business card too.
As tech, I'm very lazy, so medium.com with custom domain, and when I will move on it will be with Hugo probably.
As for the backend, I will use 3rd party managed services, or if I really need something custom it would be some lambda Go functions probably.
coder.today
Seems like a lot of people are actually mixing their blogs and "personal page" into one unique thing. Maybe I should do the same, that would actually require less work!
My site is mostly a blog, with a few informational pages about myself. I use a static site generator I wrote in Perl to build the pages when I make an update. Static site generators aren't a cure-all, but they are very nice for things like a personal site!
I still don't know what tech/stack I'll use for it. A static site generator definitely is an option but that's what I'll use for my blog (which is a different project and will be a separate site anyway), so I'd like to use something else, for diversity's sake.
That's what I had in mind but I'm not sure it's really useful since those infos can already be found on my many public profiles (LinkedIn, StackOverflow, GitHub, Dev.to, etc...).
Or... you know... not. 😋
+1
I like that idea, that's quite original.
I noticed your site is made with Hugo, how do you like it?
I'm a little experienced with Jekyll and it's actually my go to choice for static sites generators but I'd like to try Hugo, maybe that would be a good occasion...
What in particular about node.js do you find "lame"? I ask because I used to hold the same view, but then I saw a lot of cool things people were making with it!