Other People's Websites

Published: November 17, 2025
URL: https://toranm.me/post/2025-11-17-other-peoples-websites/

When designing my own website, I drew inspiration from various other people's websites. Here are a few that stood out to me:

- David Bushell (https://dbushell.com/2024/03/14/better-syntax-highlighting/)
- Bert Peters (https://bertptrs.nl/2023/08/17/how-to-host-a-static-next-js-website-with-nginx.html)
- jwz (https://jwz.org/)
- Joachim Breitner (https://www.joachim-breitner.de/)
- Surma (https://surma.dev/things/webgpu/)
- R. Knight (https://rknight.me/blog/styling-rss-and-atom-feeds/)
- Danny van Kooten (https://www.dannyvankooten.com/blog/2022/minifying-top-websites/)
- Gwern (https://www.gwern.net/)
- Jeremy Kun (https://www.jeremykun.com/shortform/2024-08-07-1414/)
- Glyph (https://blog.glyph.im/2025/08/the-best-line-length.html)
- Jarv (https://jarv.is/notes/hugo-to-nextjs)
- Sebastian Hahner (https://sebastianhahner.de/blog/2025/live-coding-roadmap/)
- Nick Walker (https://nickwalker.us/blog/2024/acm-dl-fake-dois/)
- Pascoda (https://pascoda.fairydust.space/2025/06/de-wie-geht-eigentlich-wissenschaft/)
- Herman Martinus (https://herman.bearblog.dev/digital-hygiene-passwords/)
- Chrisliebaer (https://chrisliebaer.de/blog/docker-backups/)
- Ju256 (https://ju256.rip/posts/kitctfctf22-date/)
- Intrigus (https://intrigus.org/)
- Wachter Space (https://wachter-space.de/)
- Phil Venables (https://www.philvenables.com/post/security-and-the-7-deadly-sins)
- Fefe (https://blog.fefe.de/)
- Tim Bray (https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/04/29/Leaving-Amazon)
- Brad Fitzpatrick (https://bradfitz.com/2020/01/27/leaving-google)
- Moxie Marlinspike (https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html)
- Martin Leyrer (https://martin.leyrer.priv.at/static/events2025.html)
- Stuart Thomson (https://sthom.kiwi/blog/removing-javascript-from-a-nextjs-site-and-then-adding-it-back-in)
- Davis Haupt (https://davi.sh/til/astro/content-url-routing/)
- Chris McLeod (https://chrismcleod.dev/blog/adding-the-new-mastodon-link-attribution-meta-tag/)
- tabi (https://github.com/welpo/tabi)
- Xe Iaso (https://xeiaso.net/)
- Edward Kim (https://bepyan.me/en/post/astro-sitemap/)
- George Song (https://gsong.dev/articles/astro-feed-unified/)
- YDRENIV (https://tilde.town/~ydreniv/blog/beginner-hcard-hentry/)
- James (https://jamesg.blog/)
- Taggart Tech (https://taggart-tech.com/)
- Danny van Kooten (https://www.dannyvankooten.com/sitemap.xml)
- Hanemile (https://emile.space/)
- ik0ri4n (https://ik0ri4n.de/)
- Snarfed (https://snarfed.org/2023-11-27_re-introducing-bridgy-fed)
- Mathias Endler (https://endler.dev/)
- 0xkato (https://www.0xkato.xyz/linux-boot/)
- Max Böck (https://mxb.dev/blog/using-webmentions-on-static-sites/)
- David Dodda (https://blog.daviddodda.com/how-i-almost-got-hacked-by-a-job-interview)
- Brett Cannon (https://snarky.ca/why-it-took-4-years-to-get-a-lock-files-specification/)
- Adam McKerlie (https://mckerlie.com/)
- Josh Comeau (https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/full-bleed/)
- Ondrej Sevcik (https://ondrejsevcik.com/blog/building-perfect-markdown-processor-for-my-blog)
- Andre Arko (https://andre.arko.net/note/)
- Salvatore Abello (https://blog.babelo.xyz/)
- Alisa Sireneva (https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/jvm-exceptions-are-weird-a-decompiler-perspective/)
- Brian Krebs (https://krebsonsecurity.com)
- Troy Hunt (https://www.troyhunt.com/2-billion-email-addresses-were-exposed-and-we-indexed-them-all-in-have-i-been-pwned/)
- Eric Migicovsky (https://ericmigi.com/)