personal websites
Publishing on something you own: plain text, formats that outlive their vendor, and syndicating from your own site outward.
FilterEveryone, all time26 from 11 people
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Lenny Rachitsky quoted
Writer of Lenny's Newsletter and host of Lenny's Podcast
Their wordsThe best personal website is one that keeps updating itself.
↗🎙️ How I AI: How two SpaceXAI designers use Grok Bot to do their jobslennysnewsletter.com 1st of 3 in this piece
- 4 days earlier
- PL
Pieter Levels quoted
Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs his internet startups alone
Their wordsbuilding personal homepages permanently disappeared for normies when Facebook launched ~2005
- 5 weeks earlier
- KR
Kenneth Reitz quoted
Programmer, photographer and musician
Their wordsIt is what every library you care about should look like: one canonical collection you control, and as many native doors into it as you have screens.
↗Announcing RetroVaultkennethreitz.org 1st of 3 in this piece
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Kenneth Reitz quoted
Our readingSoftware that sets out to own a user's data starts out helpful and ends up forcing a migration.
Their wordsEvery tool that decides it should own your data begins by being helpful and ends as a migration.
↗Announcing RetroVaultkennethreitz.org 2nd of 3 in this piece
- 6 days earlier
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Jean-Baptiste Kempf quoted
President of the VideoLAN non-profit and one of the lead…
Their wordsThe recorders that made them are dying, the discs themselves are aging, and until now the open-source stack simply could not read them.
↗libdvdread 7.1 & libdvdcss 1.6: DVD-VR editionjbkempf.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Jean-Baptiste Kempf quoted
Their wordsDVD is not dead! DVD stay alive, when the streaming services don't!
↗libdvdread 7.1 & libdvdcss 1.6: DVD-VR editionjbkempf.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 3 months earlier
- MN
Mark Nottingham quoted
Web infrastructure engineer and standards editor
Their wordsCMS software should not silently create and advertise feeds that publishers never see or maintain; feeds should be visible, testable, and consciously enabled.
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Mark Nottingham quoted
Our readingWHATWG should deprecate the feed link relation since it has been effectively abandoned in practice.
Their wordsWHATWG should deprecate the feed link relation; the cowpath is well and truly paved.
- 7 days earlier
- DS
Derek Sivers quoted
Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008
Their wordsLike picking up trash where you walk, even if the rest of the world is full of litter. You keep doing what you can to make things better.
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Derek Sivers quoted
Our readingNot monetizing what you put online now reads as strange behaviour that has to be explained.
Their wordsSlowly the culture around me changed, so now it seems I need to explain my strange behavior — why I don't monetize everything like everyone else.
- 7 weeks earlier
- DS
Derek Sivers quoted
Our reading · no longer heldPublishing only on your own site, and making people come to it, is the considerate way to share your work.
Recalls holdingI was acting like the record producer in New Jersey, making everyone come to my website. It was inconsiderate.
SaidIf you have something worth spreading, it's considerate to spread it widely, to reach people through their favorite medium.
↗I was inconsiderate but now I'm everywheresive.rs 1st of 2 in this piece
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Derek Sivers quoted
Their wordsMy own site is the master source of everything I make. But now it's also shared everywhere, so we can meet in your city instead of my little town.
↗I was inconsiderate but now I'm everywheresive.rs 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 7 months earlier
- DH
David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals
Their wordsDecentralization is wonderful in many ways, but it's very much subject to link rot and disappearing content
- 8 months earlier
- DS
Derek Sivers quoted
Their wordsA personal website is an autobiography. I wish everyone had one. The more we share, the better.
↗Come and get me (both you and AI)sive.rs 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 2 months earlier
- MW
Molly White quoted
Software engineer, researcher and writer
Their wordsWebsites outside of these handful of social networks are harder and harder to even find, and partially because of that, they have a harder and harder time sustaining themselves.
↗Fighting for our webcitationneeded.news 1st of 6 in this piece
- 10 days earlier
- MW
Molly White quoted
Their wordsI think federation is the long-term solution to these problems. Eventually, I dream we will be able to seamlessly interact with people across platforms.
↗POSSE: Reclaiming social media in a fragmented worldcitationneeded.news 2nd of 4 in this piece
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Molly White quoted
Their wordsWith this model, even when a platform goes under, you lose relatively little: your posts still remain live and under your control on your site, even if the copies of them on the disconnected website are abandoned or deleted.
↗POSSE: Reclaiming social media in a fragmented worldcitationneeded.news 3rd of 4 in this piece
- 3 weeks earlier
- MP
Maxence Poutord quoted
French software engineer
Our readingPosting on a third-party platform means not getting the benefit of the audience it attracts.
Their wordsWhen you post on a 3rd party platform, you won't get the benefit of your audience.
↗10 Years of Blogging, what I learnedmaxpou.fr 1st of 2 in this piece
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Maxence Poutord quoted
Their wordsApart from you, not a single person cares about the stack that runs your blog.
↗10 Years of Blogging, what I learnedmaxpou.fr 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 4 months earlier
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Lynn Fisher quoted
Designer, illustrator and CSS developer known…
Their wordsI feel hopeful about renewed enthusiasm for personal sites and blogs over platforms, but for most of my work, it's just out of my hands.
- 6 days earlier
- MW
Molly White quoted
Their wordsThe thing is: none of this is gone. Nothing about the web has changed that prevents us from going back.
↗We can have a different webcitationneeded.news 1st of 2 in this piece
- 2 years earlier
- DS
Derek Sivers quoted
Their wordsThat's why I only use plain text files. They are the most reliable, flexible, and long-lasting option.
- DS
Derek Sivers quoted
Their wordsYou will outlive these companies. Your writing should outlive you. Depending on companies is not an option.
- DS
Derek Sivers quoted
Our readingPlain text is the only format guaranteed to be readable on devices that do not exist yet.
Their wordsEvery device, including ones long gone, and ones not invented yet, can read and edit plain text.
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Derek Sivers quoted
Their wordsPlain text files and a basic text editor are enough. This is everything you need for great thinking and writing.
- 9 years earlier
- AD
Anil Dash quoted
Technologist and writer, a blogger since 1999
Their wordsThis was a sensible reaction to the realization that big sites rise and fall in popularity, but that regular people need an identity that persists longer than those sites do.