A curated showcase of startpages for your browser by 0XE4. Currently listing over 70 beautiful startpages.

Hello! I’m Lean /liˈan/🔊, software engineer who likes making stuff, code, art, and music.

saw this japanese receipt laying around & turned it into my website https://sams-receipt.vercel.app from idea to live in ~3h with @figma & @v0

Roy Tang's blog. Programmer, engineer, scientist, critic, gamer, dreamer, and kid-at-heart. Randomly amazed.

A fabulously gay blind author.

The digital home of Luke Davis: a senior technical SEO, music producer, and blogger based in Nottingham, UK.

Get out of my house! Nah, just kidding. I'm glad you're here. Instead of getting this site from a CDN somewhere near you, you're now downloading each of these files from a server right here in my home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I've been working for several months now to minimize my personal data footprint on the corporate-controlled walled gardens of the internet, and I've made quite a bit of progress.

The microblog of Steven, a tech and app enthusiast who also loves running and photography.

Chase McCoy explores, builds, & writes about the web.

~hedy's home: hedy's canonical web presence including contact information and a blog.

Making things simple, radical and beautiful

Last month Katherine called out the tension inherent in a “personal” website which is that it is both public and personal, and one’s public (or professional) persona is often different from that of their personal life. Robin Rendle riffed on the concept and said that it’s totally fine for personal websites to be messy or imperfect or weird (i.e., not necessarily how you’d want to present a “professional” front) and declared, in a pretty great and punchy/pithy statement, “You’re a poem and not software”. Manu also picked up the thread and brought up a good point which is that people are complex and are allowed to have multiple selves that they present in different ways (and one great thing about your website is that it’s yours and you can choose which self or selves to present, and how).

Hello there! I'm Anne-Laure Le Cunff, founder of Ness Labs and a PhD researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, where I study how different brains learn differently. I created this public notebook / digital garden because I believe the only way to learn in public is to build in public. This is a public notebook where I share some of my thoughts on networked thinking, creativity, metacognition, and collective intelligence. It uses bi-directional links, so you can see which pages refer to the one you are currently reading.

Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and developer from Stuttgart, Germany. Besides design practice he teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Kiel.

About the decline & revival of the personal website, and on the progress our tools have made.

Remember the internet? One millennial's jaded digital nostalgia.

The personal website of Michal Zelazny. Reflections on life, society, technology and the connections between them.

For a while now, I've been slowing working on a refactor of the codebase of this blog. At one point, I got caught in exciting world of performance and I wanted to make sure I had a super fast pageload. Currently, my CSS is added inline in the HTML and I found myself thinking "no one will be able to read this".

The chronicles of a self-taught designer and developer.

Sociotechnologist, writer and speaker working on tech and its social impact. Communist. Feminist. Antifascist. Luddite.

Exactly eight years ago, I published “Hello there!” on this website. Since then, I have published hundreds of articles. Persistent writing is excellent for many reasons and is the best thing I have ever done for my personal and professional development.

a post from alan w. smith

It’s with a near certainty and small sense of frustration that I say there was something that came before, but memory issues preclude me having any definitive sense of precisely, or even imprecisely, what it was. All I know is that it existed—or, at least,...

The internet can feel like it's built for speed. You join a new service and you're presented with a feed. The name tells you all you need to know. The feed is the actor. You are the thing that is acted upon. You don't control the feed. Your role is

Presenting my thoughts, stories and ideas to the world

This chain letter-esque post has been doing the rounds, and in the spirit of trying to rebuild my blogging muscle I thought what better to blog about than blogging? This post is a bit of a love letter to having your own place on the web, no matter how simple.

thoughts.page is a platform for hosting a small webpage for your thoughts. it's basically like twitter, but nobody can @ you. if you want to see what a thoughts page might look like, check out my thoughts, evy's thoughts, or the thoughts webring :) thoughts pages are an attempt at a quieter, slower, more personal internet. a little space on the web, just for you.

a manually curated collection of neat indie websites :)