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summary
Argues that the personal website is a lost art and shows concrete fixes: builds six themes with a theme switcher, uses plain HTML and CSS with a little JavaScript, enables progressive enhancement so the site works totally normally without JavaScript, and adds a Webmention setup to collect replies. Points to Neocities and static hosting as free options, demonstrates reduced-motion support and fast deploys so experiments can ship and roll back quickly.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Personal websites intro
- 1:04Lost art of personal web spaces
- 3:36Why building feels hard today
- 4:40Dominance of transactional sites
- 6:48Cost of centralized social media
- 9:17Why we stopped building sites
- 11:24Brief history of personal sites
- 18:53Rise and fall of Myspace/Facebook
- 23:54Modern web’s uniformity problem
- 25:01Examples of today’s sites
- 27:52IndieWeb and POSSE
- 29:18Yesterweb manifesto
- 30:46Building your own site is radical
- 31:52Make site whatever you want
- 34:02No frameworks needed
- 35:08Neocities and free hosting
- 35:49Call to build your own site
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