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Usefulness of a personal website/page

Quentin Sonrel on August 29, 2018

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...
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tux0r

I have a personal website which lists my most relevant development projects and links to my blog, Twitter etc.

What techs/stack do you use?

All of them. Except node.js. Node.js is lame.

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Quentin Sonrel

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...).

All of them. Except node.js. Node.js is lame.

Or... you know... not. 😋

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tux0r

There is no place that reliable tells the people who you are in what network. :)

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Ishan

node.js is lame

+1

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Rob Hoelz

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!

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tux0r

The same cool things can be achieved with every other server-side language - with proper typing, a less broken ecosystem (let me remind you of the left-pad debacle) and much less hipsters. :-)

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Adrian B.G.

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

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Quentin Sonrel

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!

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Rob Hoelz

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!

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Quentin Sonrel

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.

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Quentin Sonrel

I like that idea, that's quite original.

I noticed your site is made with Hugo, how do you like it?

 
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Quentin Sonrel

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...