What tech did you use to build your personal website/portfolio?

Over the festive period I'm planning to redo my personal website.

So, for a hit of inspiration, what tech did you use to build yours?

And feel free to shamelessly plug it if you answer!

Comments

[C. Pure]

I built mine with html, css, and js for the mailchimp sign up form. I wanted to really hone my basic skills so I went vanilla with this site.

It is hosted on GitHub pages.

CPureMake.tv

[Arne]

Just set my new blog online (ophasnoname.de). After years with Wordpress or Hugo i decided to use something other. My new blog runs with Laravel (PHP Framework) and some packages to parse Markdown. The blog runs without any database, anything is based on the filesystem.

[Ayush Sharma]

Gatsby + Netlify (CMS, hosting, and form) + Circle-CI
heyayush.com

[Vasily Belolapotkov]

Using Gatsby + Netlify CMS + Gitlab Pages hosting. Works nice so far. vbelolapotkov.com

[Gergely Polonkai]

• My blog was a custom PHP site from the early 2000s up to 2011.
• In 2011 i built a new engine based on the Symfony framework.
• In 2013, i switched to Python and rewrote my blog’s engine using the Django framework.
• Somewhere between 2014 and 2015 i switched to GitHub Pages, using GitHub’s Jekyll version
• In 2017 i went back to self-hosting, but still with Jekyll (although not GitHub’s version)
• In 2019 i switched to Pelican, as it’s written in Python and i can hack it easier than i could Ruby

Today my site is available on https and dat (Dat browser like Beaker or DatFox is required). I also plan to make it available on IPFS soon.

[David Gomes]

Where's the Hugo crowd? I fell in love with that framework. Push to Gitlab, host in Render for free. All automatic. The hardest part is coming up with content

[mark l chaves]

Great job. Thanks for sharing your work. Your site is very clean, minimal, and "performant".

Question though--I noticed you opted out of showing some of the images on a mobile viewport. Namely the "staggered" layout ones and your portrait photos.

Was this by design? What was your motivation behind this decision, if so?

Thanks!

[mark l chaves]

Thanks for kicking off this interesting thread, Jacob :-).

CloudCannon

Just to share. I'm currently moving my website/portfolio from WordPress to CloudCannon. More on the why behind this move here if you are interested.

Jekyll has built-in support for Liquid. Liquid comes from the developers of Shopify.

If I'm not mistaken, this site (DEV.to) uses Jekyll dev.to/p/editor_guide

I used the Jekyll Minimal Mistakes theme (excellent theme BTW). My customisations so far are in JavaScript and SCCS.

Here's the work in progress caughtmyeye.dev

Netlify

I'm using Netlify to host my PWA work. These projects aren't fully baked yet. But, here's a preview.

• ini bali
• Hope--A Transfurmation Story

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Comments are welcomed! ;-)

[Shaya]

Vue + Gridsome 🚀
shayaulman.netlify.com

[Dana Ottaviani]

danaottaviani.com/

I like using VueJS and came across Gridsome. It gives you the option to use GraphQL. I didn't create the design though, it was a premade template.