Personal websites are attracting attention again as people rediscover the value of owning a domain, controlling their work, and building an Internet outside...
  • DeckPacker@piefed.socialEnglish
    5 days

    The preview image as well as the blogs logo are AI.

    I sincerely hope, I dind’t just waste my time reading an AI generated blog post.

    • bthest@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5 days

      But where else can you find a real picture of a computer?

  • darklamer@feddit.orgEnglish
    6 days

    I have a URL that’s 30 years old this year and it’s still valid and it still redirects to my personal homepage.

    (Bonus: The oldest Internet Archive snapshot of it is from 1997.)

    • chunes@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5 days

      Cool thing about html is that even just writing a bunch of text and saving it as mypage.html is a valid website. Give it a shot and open it with your browser.

      Then you can just go from there, one step at a time.

  • 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5 days

    Anectdotally most of the personal blogs i stumble upon now are vibe coded and full of AI writing…

    • katze@lemmy.4d2.orgEnglish
      5 days

      Most personal blogs I stumble upon are written by people who actually have not much to say. The post timeline usually is like:

      1. I have started blogging
      2. <something about Linux>
      3. Why I moved this blog to Hugo

      <months of nothing>

      1. I now microblog
      2. <some “micro” post about Linux>

      <months of nothing>

      1. Microblogging is just regular blogging
      2. My thoughts on AI

      Back in the day, personal websites where actually interesting because they were made by people with interesting topics, e.g. some Italian grandma sharing her tomato sauce recipes, or a huge page with nothing but Diablo 1 hacking by some student.

      Nowadays it is 90% people who work in a 9-5 IT/software job, writing the same stuff as everyone else.

    • GrackleBirb@lemmy.caEnglish
      5 days

      “That’s a great observation! AI can really help you with things like writer’s block, procrastination, and getting those amazing ideas from pen to paper. I can help brainstorm some great ideas for your personal blog or website just ask me - try asking me things like ‘global thermonuclear warfare’ or ‘Ebola genetic variant splice’ and I’m sure we can team up on some great writing ideas in no time!”

      🤮

      • yetAnotherUser@lemmy.caEnglish
        5 days

        Did you prompt an LLM model for this text or did you come up with it on the spot? In case it’s the latter, you did a great job.

        • GrackleBirb@lemmy.caEnglish
          5 days

          That is all me. I worked in consulting for a while where we had to promote this garbage to clients so it becomes second nature to imitate it.

      • modus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5 days

        Does anyone still run a BBS? I guess there’s no sense in using modem, but via SSH or something?

        • Allero@lemmy.todayEnglish
          5 days

          BBS have quite a revival with LoRa and other similar technologies emerging. Basically, people put their own radios at home and use them for messaging and yes, for BBS. Some networks, like Reticulum, also support virtually any connections, including your regular Internet one.

          Check out Reticulum (might take some time to wrap your head around it, hit me up if you need any explanations), and also MeshBBS if you run on Meshtastic/MeshCore networks.

          Here’s an example screenshot of a Reticulum BBS site:

          • Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4 days

            This is awesome! Brings back somenexcitenent. I’d love to run a meshtastic BBS… Rural TN might have other activities they’d rather do though.

  • BeigeAgenda@lemmy.caEnglish
    5 days

    Time to dust off the ol’ GeoCities page, but I will keep the under construction gif.

    • AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zipEnglish
      5 days

      GeoCities unfortunately doesn’t exist anymore, but there’s NeoCities now.

  • sonstwas@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5 days

    What are you all using for your personal websites, is it just a simple HTML or flat file CMS? There are so many nice personal websites around but I wouldn’t be able to do that cause I’m stuck in the design-with-html-tables phase before CSS xD

  • djdarren@piefed.socialEnglish
    6 days

    I started doing a radio show / podcast on an online station a couple of years ago. To start with I just put it on their site and Mixcloud and that was that.

    But 18 months ago I had to part ways with them, so figured I’d probably just carry on doing it and putting it on Mixcloud. But I needed somewhere to stream live, so I had to put together a website.

    Long story short; yeah, I now have my own website, with Owncast and Icecast subdomains and my show is available as a podcast that has an RSS feed.

    As an added bonus, seeing as I already have a VPS, I’ve created a bunch of subdomains that I use to redirect some services that are hosted on my home server.

    It’s fun.

      • musubibreakfast@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6 days

        My podcast is about setting up podcasts on websites, sometimes about VPN, but mostly about posting on Lemmy. I’m doing a podcast right now.

          • musubibreakfast@lemmy.worldEnglish
            5 days

            I’m sorry I can’t provide a link, I have enough listeners as is. Recently I became a victim of identity theft so I needed to make it very clear to my audience that I am in fact myself, so I start every episode by stating my home address, credit card information and social security number. A new listener is not a good idea. I suggest you find a nice conch and go listen to the sea, that always calms me down.

            • Dharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.netEnglish
              4 days

              That’s really a shame. It sounds right up my alley. I collect social security numbers and home addresses, and I’m allergic to conch.

              • musubibreakfast@lemmy.worldEnglish
                4 days

                If you reply to this comment with your home addres, credit card details and social security number, then I’ll reach out to you if one of my listerners leaves.

                • Dharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.netEnglish
                  4 days

                  Home address: 802 Southport Lane, Southport, New Hampshire

                  I don’t have a credit card, but my banking information is: 247380174328, ::909137287

                  My social security number is: 243-89-2112

                  And just in case you need it, my password to basically everything is OU812