Long live personal websites, Let's make the web personal again

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  • SurveyJS - Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App
  • InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale
  • WorkOS - The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS
  • nym

    An open-source personal website infrastructure for developers (by Nym-HQ)

  • Looks like they've claimed Brian Lovin's work as their own, judging by this commit:

    https://github.com/Nym-HQ/nym/commit/3dda085064e745bd43f8b05...

  • briOS

    My personal website.

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • summer-project

  • I did this here at https://www.jaynicolsmith.com/ (its still messy) - followed a tutorial somewhere and it processes my obsidian.md vault, make a note - push to git - tada - you can steal anything i have used for this from here https://github.com/Jayziv/summer-project

  • daedalOS

    Desktop environment in the browser

  • Totally agree as someone who has been making personal sites since I was a kid in '98. My latest iteration has been nearly 2 years in the making now. I had a WordPress blog for many years but finally decided it was time as a software developer to have a site that was custom. The core idea of the site is as if you've RDP'd into my Windows 10 machine and can see all my files and apps. Everything runs client side which was also something important to me. If interested please check it out, I nickname it daedalOS and it's also open source.

    https://dustinbrett.com/

  • hello-express

    Discontinued A simple Node app built on Express, instantly up and running.

  • IMO making "a new Wordpress" doesn't feel like a great alternative -- Wordpress is pretty good as it is, and you have the option of self-hosting fairly painlessly if you want to.

    The fun of late-90s website-making is real though, but I don't see a turn towards that for the vast majority of people.

    One nice corner of optimism is projects like Glitch [1], which give just enough space to explore, go wild, and quickly host what you make.

    [1]: https://glitch.com

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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