Minimal personal website examples: type, then proof.

Minimal — the sentence has room

Projects and a note. No badge row, no stock hero. This is the personal website people mean when they say they want something simple and then add twelve widgets.

Why this works.

• Positioning is one sentence, not a hero carousel.
• Projects stay above the fold without a graphic frame.
• Contact does not compete with a newsletter modal.

Minimal · Text, Project, Contact

Alex Chen

Languages, tools, and the notes between them

I design small languages and the CLIs that keep them honest. Currently at Harbor Labs, previously on the typechecker for a research notebook that got out of hand in the best way.

San Francisco

Now

Building Ink, a typed notebook format for people who write with code sitting next to the sentence. Harbor is the CLI around it — evals, snapshots, and a boringly reliable local workflow.

GitHub

harbor-labs/ink

A typed notebook format. Prose, code, and tests in one file that still diffs like a human wrote it.

TypeScript · local-first

GitHub

harbor-labs/harbor

The CLI for Ink: run, snapshot, and compare notebooks without standing up a service.

Rust · CLITypes as documentation — Northshore ConfTalk notes and slides

Writing

Occasional notes on type systems that stay out of the way, local-first tools, and why most developer portfolios look like résumé PDFs with extra steps.

Write to AlexSlow email, real replies.

Work with me

Tell me about the project. I read every note.

NameEmailCompanyMessageWebsiteSend

Open sayhi.page/alexMinimal template

Studio — the same words, less daylight

Darkness is not minimalism. Use Studio when the tone is already quiet. If you needed the dark background to make the page feel finished, the sentences are not done.

Why this works.

• The blocks did not multiply when the theme changed.
• GitHub stays a card you wrote, not a graph.
• The page is still one screen of decisions.

Studio · Text, Project, GitHub

Alex Chen

Languages, tools, and the notes between them

I design small languages and the CLIs that keep them honest. Currently at Harbor Labs, previously on the typechecker for a research notebook that got out of hand in the best way.

San Francisco

Now

Building Ink, a typed notebook format for people who write with code sitting next to the sentence. Harbor is the CLI around it — evals, snapshots, and a boringly reliable local workflow.

GitHub

harbor-labs/ink

A typed notebook format. Prose, code, and tests in one file that still diffs like a human wrote it.

TypeScript · local-first

GitHub

harbor-labs/harbor

The CLI for Ink: run, snapshot, and compare notebooks without standing up a service.

Rust · CLITypes as documentation — Northshore ConfTalk notes and slides

Writing

Occasional notes on type systems that stay out of the way, local-first tools, and why most developer portfolios look like résumé PDFs with extra steps.

Write to AlexSlow email, real replies.

Work with me

Tell me about the project. I read every note.

NameEmailCompanyMessageWebsiteSend

Open sayhi.page/alexStudio template

What to copy

Start from Minimal

The template these studies start from.

Open the Minimal template

Questions

• Is minimal the same as empty? No. An empty page is a username and a placeholder. These demos have projects and a way to reply.

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