The preview image as well as the blogs logo are AI.
I sincerely hope, I dind't just waste my time reading an AI generated blog post.
But where else can you find a real picture of a computer?
Also the text of the blog reads like heavily edited AI generated text, which is often done by AI "centrists", as that is part of the whole "make it yours" mantra as pushed by AI vendors nowadays (leads to more AI interaction).
They never left, shithead
Anectdotally most of the personal blogs i stumble upon now are vibe coded and full of AI writing.....
Most personal blogs I stumble upon are written by people who actually have not much to say. The post timeline usually is like:
Back in the day, personal websites where actually interesting because they were made by people with interesting topics, e.g. some Italian grandma sharing her tomato sauce recipes, or a huge page with nothing but Diablo 1 hacking by some student.
Nowadays it is 90% people who work in a 9-5 IT/software job, writing the same stuff as everyone else.
"That's a great observation! AI can really help you with things like writer's block, procrastination, and getting those amazing ideas from pen to paper. I can help brainstorm some great ideas for your personal blog or website just ask me - try asking me things like 'global thermonuclear warfare' or 'Ebola genetic variant splice' and I'm sure we can team up on some great writing ideas in no time!"
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Did you prompt an LLM model for this text or did you come up with it on the spot? In case it's the latter, you did a great job.
That is all me. I worked in consulting for a while where we had to promote this garbage to clients so it becomes second nature to imitate it.
On one hand, woah!
On the other hand, I'm sorry :(
Kick them out of the web ring.
For a while, the personal website looked like a leftover from an earlier Internet.
Looks at website Q.Q
On another note, namecheap stole my domain by not sending renewal notice and selling it to bidder who had offered previously.
Did you have auto renewal on?
It seems like a good policy for the provider to remind about domain expiry, but really the administration burden is on you.
I have a URL that’s 30 years old this year and it’s still valid and it still redirects to my personal homepage.
(Bonus: The oldest Internet Archive snapshot of it is from 1997.)
How dare you claim that 1997 was 30 years ago.... oh shit...
Mine never left, it's been there all this time.
BBS and mailing lists
I'm surprised someone remembered bbs'es. Those were some fun 300 baud times.
@nutellawaescher I think the fediverse and the ability to somewhat self host your own instance is going to really revive the personal website space, for example I used to have my own WordPress it was great but did not offer me enough of outside world, so I shut that down and installed my own friendica instance, it is both my window to the world and my own living biography, and slowly through the fediverse I am seeing a resurgence of personal web spaces and I think that is great;
Join us...
AI scrapping bots prevent me from making my own site. I want to learn how to poison the pages for these scrappers just like gamers nexus is doing. Sigh.
I started doing a radio show / podcast on an online station a couple of years ago. To start with I just put it on their site and Mixcloud and that was that.
But 18 months ago I had to part ways with them, so figured I'd probably just carry on doing it and putting it on Mixcloud. But I needed somewhere to stream live, so I had to put together a website.
Long story short; yeah, I now have my own website, with Owncast and Icecast subdomains and my show is available as a podcast that has an RSS feed.
As an added bonus, seeing as I already have a VPS, I've created a bunch of subdomains that I use to redirect some services that are hosted on my home server.
It's fun.
same great ones too. neocities is fun to just go through but my favourite is using https://wiby.me/ and just hitting "surprise me" some great old school personal sites.
I do that on a windows xp vm for intimate old web larpinig
Time to dust off the ol' GeoCities page, but I will keep the under construction gif.
GeoCities unfortunately doesn't exist anymore, but there's NeoCities now.
One of the shitty Mars movies from the early 2000s, Red Planet, has a line where one of the douche bags says to one of the nerdy types “so how many hits did you get on your website today” and it never fails to crack me up both because it dates the movie horribly and because it’s the jock saying it to the nerd.
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