I haven’t seen a personal website that really inspired me in a little while. Share your favorites!

@jsonbecker bookmarking this thread!

@jsonbecker http://domenic.website is mine

one of my favorites is http://naturalworlds.org

@jsonbecker I’m collecting personal websites that highlight their authors’ creative output in my ta-da channel on Are.na. You might find something you like there. I also curate another channel featuring all the websites mentioned in my podcast about “the rest of the internet.” While it’s not exclusively about personal websites, most of them fall into that category. Happy foraging!

@sod love these; thanks for sharing!

@sod I remember from a recent interview on The Talk Show With John Gruber # 416 postcast, with Vlad Prelovac, that the paid-for search engine Kagi scans non-commercial websites themselves, which are only a small portion of the total number of websites (and borrow the rest from existing search engines). Those websites are typically not laden with tracking and attention grabbing gimmicks (popovers), because they don’t need it. They also have a high signal to noise ratio, and are totally not interesting to the likes of Google Search (no tracking), hence hard to find with those search engines. Kagi, according to Prelovac, prioritizes those high quality websites in their search results.

@renevanbelzen That’s right! They combine their own index with search results from other providers, like my favorite, Marginalia, a folksy search engine created by Swedish developer Viktor Löfgren.

Even though Kagi Search is a paid service, they still offer some cool free tools, like Kagi Small Web, which lets you stumble upon random posts from personal websites. Similarly, you can explore random sites in Marginalia’s index to discover hidden gems.

@jsonbecker Had seen this post earlier and wanted to comment so glad to see it in Discover. I’ve followed different iterations for Paul Stamatiou’s website from the early aughts and loved them all.

@jsonbecker I love Pete Millspaugh’s site www.petemillspaugh.com

@jsonbecker Bookmarked. As someone who has only recently started learning about this stuff, I could always use inspiration.

@jsonbecker I’m jealous of @heyloura heyloura.com every time I see it!

@joshuapsteele This is amazing! Just followed @heyloura as a result.

@heyloura I have to get on that. Which I will do as soon as I… learn… what to do and how to use that knowledge to… get… on that.