Personal Dashboards/Homepage

Late_Settler

For years I've used a basic static html page for my homepage. It's been perfectly adequate with a column of frequent links and the rest of the page being notes for my various projects. But I'd like to explore my options for something with more features.

I know there's a ton of options out there. I'm wondering if there's anything you guys are rocking that you're fond of.

Lumeinshin

Late_Settler
There's two ideas there I think
The dashboard homepage in that it's where your browser opens to, with fancy bookmarks as well as any other notes or things you want.
And the
Online "this is me" website where you can have all the same things but it's hosted online for public viewing

I wasn't entirely sure which you meant specifically, so I'll post about both 😅

When I was in university I spent some time working on a homepage, I was more active online posting generally and it seemed like a nice way to personalise my machine. I can't remember if I posted in the /g/ desktop threads much but that was the type of thing I enjoyed.
I wrote the site very simply, with some hover effects and coloured segments, all manual with relatively easy ways to blog out new parts.
Then when I started hosting my XMPP instance and writing blogposts, I wanted to have a website to do so. So I adapted it into the skyshanty site we have today I've tidied it up a bit since but it's been a while
It serves as a great learning experience making and designing something that is appealing and works correctly on all devices.
I didn't have any side columns though which i think is a shame

For homepages, something I haven't done but would like to do is run on a home server a syncthing/rsync location on my devices where the homepage folder/file is, so that I can update it all simultaneously.

For online homepages, there are lots of little sites for that kind of thing, I know neocities got semi popular with a corner of the web for making early 00s style personal sites. I believe there are other things like it but not off the top of my head

I'll have a rummage for my old homepage files. I'm curious to see what I have and whether I still like it at all

friffri

I tried opening a website a few times but I always got tired of them right after I had finished setting up everything.
My last attempt is using https://bearblog.dev/, but it's a managed platform and it seems like you're searching for something you can self host.
So i don't feel like I can really recommend anything, sorry.

Unrelated, but there's this thing I've noticed where many programmers want to open a blog, so the first thing they do is start building some complex infrastructure for it. Once they're done they write their first post about how their blog works internally and never post anything else...

gingermilk

I could be wrong but github pages are still the default options for most technologically literate people, wordpress for the others, and neocities for the webring nerds. There are some more niche options and I really like bashblog where you can manage everything with a simple bash script.

Late_Settler

gingermilk
I hadn't considered Wordpress but after thinking about it it'll likely be the most customizable option with some pretty features I can't get out of Neocities or Github pages. I'll try to poke at that this weekend and see what I can share.

So far I had been looking the the Awesome-Selfhosted list under the Personal Dashboards section. Nothing was really clicking with me there.

Late_Settler

So I did try out Wordpress for a while and found it was rather clunky to work with and that it was starting to take over the role of my Dokuwiki install. I use Dokuwiki to manage and keep track of my hobbies and projects.

I've settled on the Firefox extension Tabliss. I was already using Tabliss for my kitchen touchscreen/digital whiteboard so it was always a consideration but I was hoping to play around with something new. Tabliss is nice in that it's easy to quickly edit and add to the page.

Here's an example.

Lumeinshin

There's two ideas there I think
The dashboard homepage in that it's where your browser opens to, with fancy bookmarks as well as any other notes or things you want.
And the
Online "this is me" website where you can have all the same things but it's hosted online for public viewing

I wasn't entirely sure which you meant specifically, so I'll post about both 😅

Yeah I'm not sure there is a proper term that isn't interchangeable with a personal site. Maybe launch page would be more appropriate?

For online homepages, there are lots of little sites for that kind of thing, I know neocities got semi popular with a corner of the web for making early 00s style personal sites. I believe there are other things like it but not off the top of my head

I really should start up a Neocities site. It'd be a nice nod to my first bit of web development experience helping a friend with his Mario fan site when I was in high school. That was back when data tables were used to create site layouts. It only took more than a decade for CSS to implement something similar in the form of grid.

What'd you think of your old homepage?

Sage

I've never thought about making a home page like this for websites I frequent or to keep track of various projects. I want to set up a multi-purpose home server, so using something like this as a dashboard for it would also be mighty useful. Apologies for not having much to contribute, but I'm shocked at how simple of a solution this is.

In casual conversations I've had with people it seems most of them don't really know the options they have or had even considered this kind of thing. For the less technically inclined I'd probably recommend Notion. It's subscription based with no real setup involved. My wife uses it for her todo tasks and we share it for meal planning and grocery lists.

Sage

I've never thought about making a home page like this for websites I frequent or to keep track of various projects. I want to set up a multi-purpose home server, so using something like this as a dashboard for it would also be mighty useful. Apologies for not having much to contribute, but I'm shocked at how simple of a solution this is.

cat_beepo

my CS professor also made his browser homepage a hard-coded list of stuff as well and he showed the class and it literally blew my mind at the time.

These days I think well no i can't be bothered to do that lol

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