I should make a better home page. First step is to survey some other people's homepages. Here is a collection
- Joey Hess: https://joeyh.name/
- no design, links to blog and code
- Simon McVittie: http://www.pseudorandom.co.uk
- links to blog, ikiwiki, old school design
- Martin F. Krafft: http://madduck.net/
- links to blog, ikiwiki
- Simon Willison: http://blog.simonwillison.net/
- tumblr
- Steve Coast: http://stevecoast.com/
- self hosted wordpress with comments
- Jimmy Wales: http://jimmywales.com/
- wordpress.com with comments
- Brewster Kahle: http://brewster.kahle.org/
- wordpress with comments
- Paul Graham: http://paulgraham.com/
- essays, not a blog
- Ian Jackson: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ijackson/
- no blog
- Noodles: http://www.earth.li/~noodles/
- link to blog, movable type
- Keith Packard: http://keithp.com/
- link to blog, ikiwiki
- Steve Kemp: http://www.steve.org.uk/
- link to blog, built using chronicle blog compiler
- Michael Meeks: https://people.gnome.org/~michael/
- blog, pyblosxom
- Colin Watson: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~cjwatson/
- link to livejournal
- Mark Shuttleworth: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/
- wordpress, with comments
- John Resig: http://ejohn.org/
- links to blog, wordpress, with comments. modern design
- top navbar, no sidebars
- Aaron Swartz: http://www.aaronsw.com/
- homebrew blog, with comments
- Benjamin Mako Hill: http://mako.cc/
- link to blog, wordpress, with comments - 2014 theme
- Harry Wood: http://www.harrywood.co.uk/
- link to blog, wordpress, with comments
- Armin Ronacher: http://lucumr.pocoo.org/
- blog, homebrew, no comments
- top navbar, no side bars
- front page is blog with two columns, date, title and summary
- blog software: https://github.com/mitsuhiko/rstblog/
- Simon Brunning: http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/
- link to blog, moveable type, with comments
- Richard Hartmann: http://richardhartmann.de/
- link to blog, ikiwiki, with comments
- Lars Wirzenius: http://liw.fi/
- link to blog, ikiwiki, with comments
- Chris Lamb: https://chris-lamb.co.uk/
- link to blog, unknown blogging software, with comments
- Tom Taylor: http://scraplab.net/ and http://tomtaylor.co.uk/
- Gordon Mohr: http://xavvy.com/
- James Bromberger: http://www.james.rcpt.to/
- link to blog, wordpress, with comments
- Nicolas Perriault: https://nicolas.perriault.net/
- link to blog, homebrew, no comments
- Wichert Akkerman http://www.wiggy.net/
- Michael R. Bernstein: http://michaelrbernste.in/
- blog - no comments
- David Pashley: http://www.davidpashley.com/ and http://experimentalnomad.com/
- wordpress with comments
- MJR: http://mjr.towers.org.uk/
- Sarven Capadisli: http://csarven.ca/
- includes foaf, looks fancy in Google
- list of interests, with links to Wikipedia
- Tom Chance: http://tom.acrewoods.net/
- blog, wordpress.com with comments
- http://gabrielecirulli.com/ - Creator of 2048
- I like this style, I should copy it.
- uses normalize.css
- http://cobyism.com/
- github guy - big text, animated
- uses own grid layout framework: http://cobyism.com/gridism/
- http://davidpennington.me/
- uses bootstrap
- No-Trust: https://no-trust.org/
- wordpress
- François Marier: http://fmarier.org/
- ikiwiki
- John Goerzen: http://www.complete.org/JohnGoerzen
- Diego Ongaro: http://ongardie.net/
- Michael McCracken: http://michael-mccracken.net/
- http://codon.com/
- http://upsilon.cc/~zack/ - ikiwiki
- Patrick Barrett: https://mkii.org/
Tools
Hacker news post blogs
- from http://feeds.feedburner.com/hacker-news-feed-50?format=xml
- http://wikichen.is/ - Jekyll no comments
- http://caolanmcmahon.com/ - static blog with comments
- https://www.schneier.com/blog/ - movable type, with comments
- http://www.rudebaguette.com/ - wordpress with comments
- http://css-tricks.com/ - wordpress, with comments
- http://www.sitepoint.com/ - unknown blog software with disqus comments
- http://benguild.com/ - Jekyll with disqus comments
- http://blog.lawnstarter.com/ - tumblr
Ideas
Front page highlights: San Francisco, Internet Archive
List projects and achivements: linux MDA device driver, busybox, debian, cpan, open library, internet archive, find-link, wikipedia, wikimedia commons, openstreetmap, bitcoin(?)
- Long scrolling pages:
- List of conferences/events, debconf 0, debconf 1, debconf 3, osm state of the map, hackers at large, hackday 2007, etc
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/London_2
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/London_6
- Photos copied around the web
- Software engineer / software developer / coder
- internet freedom fighter
- creative commons warrier
- internet rockstar
Photos
- Space invader
- Deer in snow
- Gohper
Edward Betts - software developer
- python
- full text search: solr
- databases: postgresql and mysql
- information retrieval
web page framework
- bootstrap
- SMINT: http://www.outyear.co.uk/smint/
skills
- debian / linux / unix since 1997
- open source
- G