Personal sites after 2023

On what still feels worth building on the independent web.

Published
Sep 19, 2023
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personal-site, web, trends

Personal sites still matter because they remain one of the few places where layout, identity, and writing can belong to the same person.

Independence is still valuable

The appeal is not novelty. It is control over structure, archives, and presentation.

Durability matters more than spectacle

The sites that last are usually the ones built around readable pages and maintainable systems, not short-lived experiments in decoration.

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Bojin Li

Bojin Li writes about software, systems, design, and the internet from a static-first, content-first perspective.

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