HrefHunt!
UPDATED, 11 Nov 2019. Okay, this month’s links are culled from a handful of little threads here and there.
- @pjrvs’ thread asking: “who has the best personal website/blog?” (I skipped the popular ones or those I’d already discovered.)
- HN thread, same question.
- ‘The Internet of creation disappeared’ thread has some self-promoted links here and there. Thank you!
- @visakanv’s blog list—not a whole lot new here, but hey, good to see.
- Tania Rascia’s ‘Blogs to Follow’—I generally don’t cover tech blogs (pointless and messy are my faves,) but maybe you go in for them.
- An are.na board titled ‘internet escape’, as well as Mengyi Qian’s ‘WEBSITE’ page.
- Warren Ellis’ Starter List.
- Gwern’s OPML. Didn’t actually find anything there of interest to me, but seems very rich if you’re into science or academia.
And, from anyone who e-mailed me. Yup: let me link to you.
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sarahrothberg This site is dope. That trippy kaleidoscope effect. There’s also a funky hall-of-mirrors effect in there. The projects are quality. Surprising things in here. This goes in my permanent collection.
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Sarah Drasner’s bomb site Yeah, been finding a lot of SVG designers around, it’s great, Sarah is in that crew. Her blog is very well done. (IMHO better than many online tech/design magazines.)
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peter burr Lots of cool monochrome pixel art—kind of in the vein of unomoralez.
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HAWRAF This is a design studio page, but it’s so clearly inspired by personal home pages and desktop publishing—I think this could be a great springboard for personal blog or wiki design. I mean: you can scrawl all over the site. It would be cool for a wiki to allow those kinds of edits.
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Leander Herzog More SVG. The whole site seems to be visuals. Wild stuff.
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Village Grannies Best website ever for a bong? It’s very minimal—but maxed out visually. From a long line of scroll adventures.
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neul van gelder de neufville But a mere pamphlet, lush and babbing.
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Joe Coleman A personal portfolio/blog, but with an amusing slider as the home page.
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Inspiration — Brian Hertzog An interesting take on a directory. Tiled images that lead into short biographies.
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The Chorizo Chronicles Mr. Chorizo blogs about life in Spain—including a recent account of the protest in Barcelona. I enjoy flipping through blogs like this occassionally, to get a window into someone else’s life. I tend to think these personal blogs are embellished—which I don’t mind at all, of course—but this one seems legit. Doesn’t matter either way. Be who you want to be.
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Subpixel Space by Toby Shorin. Put a purple mint sticker on this one. I’m still working through the essays—but there’s some great digging into online culture here—what I’ve read is insightful. (I also love discovering a blog, kind of like Nadia’s too, where the author has already published so much that you have your work cut out for you just catching up with their material.)
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Julian Shapiro Damn polished. I know nothing about many of his topics (marketing, fitness) but there are good ideas here for a clean blog ‘look’/‘layout’.
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Dr. Tom Allen Engineering blog—some thoughtpieces, some code. I really like this one on using a ‘directed graph’ to plan a project. Seems novel!
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Daniel’s New Website Personal home page as a text adventure. (This feels like it was done in Twine!) Written in second person.
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Bigger on the Inside Mix of personal thoughts and programming language evaluation by Xuanyi Chew. Interesting: Does Inflation Happen in Hell?
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SILO This french publication is monochrome but maximal. Feels like my site is a kin to this one. Wish I could get my fonts and layout up to par with this!
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Ilya Smirnov Site ain’t around no more. But look at it. One big page. This is hypertexting! Yes, this is how you do it.
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Vulfpeck Band with a website that looks like a man page??
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Damon Zucconi I don’t know how to stop giving you links. This won’t be over soon.
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Elliott’s Computer It’s just a select box. I’m cool with that.
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ertdfgcvb ASCII webpage with some sweet animated touches. Fun ideas for h0p3.
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awarm.space Jared Pereira’s central node, connecting various notes and projects. I think I’m most drawn to the media notes. Which is strange, because I don’t like reviews. But that’s exactly it—I don’t like reviews as much as just notes and goodstuff extracted from the text/film. There are a whole lot of related hypertext projects here: fathom.network, hyperlink.academy. I hate that this is at the end, but it’s the last one I saw.
Href Hunt Archives
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January 2020: Just random personal pages - 24 of them I came across.
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November 2019: 22 personal and pro sites from linked lists on the blogs I follow.
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May 2019: 15 personal sites from Twitter etc.
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April 2019: 24 personal sites from Hacker News. Four or five wild designs. One Google parody that’s quite good.
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February 2019: 15 neat personal sites, plucked from HN and Twitter.
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November 2018: A few sites from tweets and Pinboard. 10 blogs and web pages.
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September 2018: Plundering graphic design forums and Reddit. 19 home pages and portfolios.
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August 2018: A whole lot of stuff from Hacker News. 59 home pages and blogs.
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July 2018: The first attempt. 1 home page, 1 podcast and 11 blogs.