This is my personal site, hosted at jlipps.com. The reason I made this site is part performance art/statement, as described on the site itself:
We live in an era of the Internet where most of our ability to share things about ourselves, our projects, our interests, our opinions, etc..., is controlled by massive corporations and hidden behind their walls. Social media of various kinds is immensely useful and engaging, but as a user of these services I've often gotten the feeling that I'm more like a farm animal being raised for slaughter than anything else.
As a software developer, I'm in the admittedly privileged position of being able to put things on the Internet on my own, without going through these social media middlegiants. I do so as an exercise in freedom, and as a nod to an earlier stage of the narrative of the web, where people made Geocities sites to honour their weird hobbies and put random facts about themselves into the ether, with the promise of serendipitous connection! I remember this phase fondly for myself, not least because it stimulated my own love of producing software technology and kickstarted my self-taught career as a web developer. I hope that we can return to such a state in some measure in the future, perhaps a bit wiser after our journey through the dark forest of corporate control.
Have a look around! Build your own random parts of the web!