I’ve spent the last few months crafting my own home on the Web, and I wanted to make sure it presented me as a human, not defined solely by my work as a #DesignEngineer / #WebDev.
This has also been a great opportunity to finally use #Svelte & #SvelteKit in a project. I love how easy it was to learn and how intuitive it is, as someone who started with vanilla HTML and CSS
Does your website have a booklog or reading list of any kind? I am looking for inspiration since I want to redesign mine from a simple table to something a bit more fun.
Please link your #blog if it has something like this!
It was 13 years ago when I registered fourtonfish.com, which I've used as my internet home for the following 11 years, before switching to stefanbohacek.com.
How did you pick the domain name for your personal website?
I am only two blog posts into my blogging adventure and already (again) at a point where I'm doubting I have anything to say.
I am working on several texts at the same time, because that's how my brain seems to like it. And all they are, are opinions on things I don't have any real knowledge about except my experience as a consumer. I feel like I don't have the right to write and publish texts about them.
I should probably dig a little deeper and write a blog post about this very problem. 😆
Expanding on some recent posts on Mastodon, I wrote my entry for this month's IndieWeb Carnival (topic: Digital Relationships).
TL;DR — Words are crucial to build a sense of online community, however many of us have been using them straight out of a soulless corporate lingo in order to sell ourselves as a product.
I've been busy reworking my personal website, but now it's in a good enough state, something I feel good about. I finally got it to be "verified" on Mastodon!
I finally have a tiny home on the internet again, dedicated to what I am passionate about, and filled with what I am reading, writing, and working on (coming soon).
This is not just a designer's portfolio it is a representation of myself. I got inspired by loads of folks, but especially @matthiasott, his posts and newsletter has been among the driving forces to finish my personal website. 😊 #indieweb
I also set up a newsletter on #buttondown called Datest (https://buttondown.email/philipp) which I will write casually to share updates about my site, writings, and interesting links.
My #personalWebsite (https://tommi.space), even though relatively simple and basic, has a lot of technical debt (#CSS especially), and I am getting crazy cleaning it up…
I found https://buildexcellentwebsit.es extremely insightful and inspiring! It pushed me to finally completely restructure my personal website’s #CSS, after many years of mess.
Unfortunately, though, I find the massive use of all those calc() and clamp() functions to be quite heavy in terms of performance… #Lighthouse gave the website a very bad performance score (see screenshot). It even seems that while scrolling the page it lags (😳) even if it’s super simple and built with pure #HTML and CSS!
Do you have any ideas or suggestions? 🤔
Thank you so much for all the interesting things you share! ❤️🚀
(The current unstable development version of my website is at https://dev.tommi.space/, I am using the homepage as reference)