A Love Letter to Personal Websites
One of the downsides to having a personal site, as a developer, is that some people will expect it to be a professional portfolio and showcase.  So, there's pressure to keep updating it, to at least hint at your use of the latest Web frameworks, awareness of SEO/promotion, etc.<p>My own personal site's current look is pretty much an early CSS approximation of my old `table`-based layout, and is now mainly to preserve URLs for some open source contributions.  It's also personal, with none of my professional work on it.<p>I'd bet the vintage look has cost me a few business opportunities, but not every aspect of my life has to follow this year's commercial fashion.  Shoot me if I ever give <i>my little personal site</i> a stock React look, or a big dynamic anti-Web framework, or third-party CDNs to mitigate bloat hosting costs, or something like that. :)