Why Personal Websites Are Coming Back

Posted by speckx 11 hours ago

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Comment by Yashjain413 11 hours ago

I think one of the biggest reasons personal websites are making a comeback is AI-powered web coding.

More and more non-technical people can now build things they’ve always wanted to build, including their own websites.

As a non-technical person myself, I built my own website simply because I’ve always loved building things, but never really had the medium or technical skills to do it.

Now I do and the medium is Claude code.

Comment by nearlyepic 11 hours ago

Can’t you fucking people go five seconds without making everything about Claude code? I mean Jesus fucking Christ next thing I’ll hear is that Claude code is responsible for the weather.

As if nobody made personal websites because html and CSS was too difficult. Ever heard of FrontPage? Fuck me.

Comment by karmakurtisaani 8 hours ago

> next thing I’ll hear is that Claude code is responsible for the weather.

Well, seeing how these data centers are being run with coal, Claude might have to soon take some responsibility for the weather..

Comment by pacomerh 6 hours ago

Claude or whatever favorite agent help people build things faster. The commenter clearly said > "More and more non-technical people can now build things they’ve always wanted to build" this is referring to projects, don't think FrontPage is gonna cut it here. Btw, isn't FrontPage like a really outdated legacy WYSIWYG thing?, anyway

Comment by hbcondo714 11 hours ago

> Hosting companies can change...Point your domain somewhere else when you need to move. That is a much healthier relationship with technology.

I went from Azure to Github for hosting so I guess my relationship with Microsoft ended up staying the same?

[1] https://amarkota-com-www.azurewebsites.net

[2] https://github.com/hbcondo/hbcondo

Comment by VCFundedGenYer 9 hours ago

This is an AI-generated slop article. Pay it no mind.

Comment by GrinningFool 11 hours ago

AI-generated article starts with the premise that personal sites are making a comeback, but doesn't support it; and overall doesn't say anything beyond they never left, and the tech is all the same. The styling may be intended to obfuscate the slop-ness of it.

I read it so that you don't have to.

Comment by TimVasil 11 hours ago

Agree it's light on data. The "evidence" cited is traction with the IndieWeb, Neocities, and Bear Blog. I'm not familiar with these, but Bear Blog seems to be relatively new (5-6 years) and growing?

The article resonated with me personally, though. I taught a continuing ed course on creating personal websites (with AOLpress!) in the late 90s and had my own until giving it up in 2016 or so, but coincidentally decided to try again this month.

Comment by gum_wobble 11 hours ago

Thanks. Why is ts in the front page

Comment by in_absentia 11 hours ago

I honestly don't know what explanation is worse when these pieces about the value of human expression are generated by an LLM. It's gotta be malicious trolling or complete delusion.

Comment by jmclnx 10 hours ago

I actually moved my WEB Site to Gemini with a mirror on Gopher. My site is still active with links to the my G* Sites.

I find maintaining both Gemini and Gopher is much easier than the WEB.

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