Joel Califa
joelcalifa.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2014
Joel Califa is a designer and developer whose personal site has posts on UI design, password forms, color tools and his career.
What HN saysHN commenters hold it up as an example of a good personal site, and cite "Patronizing Passwords" for its useful examples.
17HN people shared it
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Most-shared posts
- 1Tiny Wins8 people · 327 points · first shared 2018 · 63 comments on HN
- 2Patronizing Passwords3 people · 164 points · first shared 2015 · 103 comments on HN
- 3Revisiting :Visited3 people · 3 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 4Homepage2 people · first shared 2018
- 5Subverted Design1 people · 122 points · first shared 2018 · 19 comments on HN
- 6How I Got Hired by DigitalOcean1 people · 9 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 7I worked on something that never shipped – 'lost' work is part of a larger story1 people · 1 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 8Colors1 people · first shared 2015
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kickscondor · 2018-08-02
I'm always looking for personal sites that are still out there. I love some of the ones she listed. Here are some random ones I found yesterday.
http://merkoba.com/
http://angusnicneven.com/
http://danieltemkin.com/
http://joelcalifa.com/
https://jacky.wtf/
https://www.jacobyyoung.com/about
http://nik.works/
http://web.archive.org/web/20180501202224/https://shiba.computer/
Here are two I found several days ago, but that I am still finding amusing today.
http://coolguy.website/
http://leonbambrick.com/
Please share your personal page links, too.
Even if this list becomes long, that's okay. I will look at it.
s73v3r_ · 2018-08-02
I've been gathering some inspirations for a personal site. Here are a couple I liked. (Although now that I think about it, these were linked at the end of the article).
http://julia.im/
http://joelcalifa.com/
http://nik.org/
https://flexdinesh.github.io/
huphtur · 2016-12-05
Joel Califa's "Patronizing Passwords" has some great examples: http://joelcalifa.com/blog/patronizing-passwords/
design · 2015-09-27
I have a similar engine up at http://joelcalifa.com/colors
Mine can also do colors like "banana" or "bubblegum". Pretty simple to put together actually. Rather than manually putting together a list of colors, I just use the ColourLovers API.
You can also use up and down arrows to move between results or the return key to "make a poem," which I fully agree was a weird feature to add.