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Make a Damn Website

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I’ve been doing a lot of personal archival work, and through that work, I’ve realized how important it is to me to present myself the way I want to be presented. I’ve written a little about this before in The Teenage Web, but as I’ve combed through posts from all my old blogs, re-formatting and editing them for this blog, I’ve realized just how many links are dead. Tons of old personal sites are gone. (God bless the Internet Archive.) In the last 15 years, many people (myself included) were drawn to third-party solutions for presenting ourselves. For our résumés, LinkedIn. For portfolios, Behance and Dribbble. For blogging, Tumblr, Medium, and Substack. Instead of forums, Discord and Slack. But despite each of these advertising some amount of autonomy, in reality you have very little. By centralizing not just your content, but yourself, on these sites, you rob yourself the opportunity to be more authentically you. In addition, a peer or competitor might appear next to you. It may not b

Make a Damn Website I’ve been doing a lot of personal archival work, and through that work, I’ve realized how important it is to me to present myself the way I want to be presented. I’ve written a little about this before in The Teenage Web , but as I’ve combed through posts from all my old blogs, re-formatting and editing them for this blog, I’ve realized just how many links are dead. Tons of old personal sites are gone . (God bless the Internet Archive.) In the last 15 years, many people (myself included) were drawn to third-party solutions for presenting ourselves. For our résumés, LinkedIn

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