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Personal website examples

A personal website used to mean a project. These are one-page sites with a name, a voice, and the work — still light enough to live in a bio.

Developer — type, space, a few true things

Alex’s page is a website because the writing and the repos are the content. The links are not the layout.

Portrait of Alex Chen

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.

Photographer — the pictures lead

Maya’s page is closer to a small magazine than a contact sheet of URLs. Captions matter.

Portrait of Maya Okonkwo

Maya Okonkwo

Weather, concrete, and the people who wait in both

Photographer working between London and Lagos. Large-format landscapes, night streets, and the in-between weather that does not make the postcard.

London / Lagos

Selected work

Atlantic Edge

Cliffs at first light, fog still deciding whether to lift. Printed 30×40 on cotton rag. The path is real; I waited for a morning with no hikers.

Mist over coastal cliffs at dawn, a narrow path along the edge
Atlantic Edge, 2025

Cast Concrete

A stairwell in Peckham that only works for twenty minutes a day, when the sun hits the mid-landing and the dust becomes a second architecture.

Sunlight cutting across a brutalist concrete stairwell
Cast Concrete, 2024
Rain-wet night market street with warm stall lights
After Hours, Lagos, 2025
Hands holding a brass rangefinder camera on a wooden table
Studio table
@mayaokonkwoProcess, not a feed of everything

Freelancer — a practice, not a pitch deck

Elena’s page could be printed. That is the point of a personal website that still fits on a phone.

Portrait of Elena Rossi by a window

Elena Rossi

I help independent practices explain what they actually do

Writer and advisor in Milan. I sit with architects, editors, and small studios until the work can be said in a sentence a stranger would trust.

Milan

Practice

Studio advisory, in writing

Most independent practices do not need a rebrand. They need language that matches the rooms they already make. I work in conversation, then on paper, then — only if it is useful — on the site.

How we begin

A month of interviews and editing. A positioning note you can actually use. Optional: a one-page site, often on SayHi, so the public version stays as quiet as the work.

Selected conversations

Notes on independent practicesEssays · Italian and EnglishFor studios with more craft than copyA short brief on startingWrite to ElenaI take two new studios each season.