For whatever reason this website feels so personal. Instant flashbacks to the 2000s. I love it.

Hint for picking a random image when clicking on the image: The currently shown image should be excluded from the list of images to draw from. This prevents the problem that sometimes clicks appear to do nothing, although in reality the same image was randomly picked again.

This is what the web would look like if everyone learned to program and got off Facebook. I can only dream!

It's https and 100 speed score on https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=.... I'm guessing this is on something like Netlify, as it's fast and there is HN hug of death.

I got the same vibe, so much of ones self just thrown onto a page to see what will happen. Super fun to see.

Good luck to the author :)

Great suggestion. I will pass along the feedback to the developer :)

A carrousel could work as well

This reminds me so much of when I started (almost 5 years ago now). My then boyfriend shared his interest in design and development and I ended up taking some programming courses for fun. I had no clue wtf I was doing for so long but I liked it...I also made a little app and made my brother click a button that spit out the text "You're stupid".

The courses and self teaching went a long way. I started at a crappy digital design agency and now work at a company many people have heard of!

Good luck to your girlfriend! I'm inspired by her.

"I have no idea what I'm doing, but I like it." This sums up pretty much the entire field ;)

I've been really happy to see all the nice personal sites and blogs that people have been creating on .dev domains, this included. It feels like the Web of the late 90s that I grew up in.

She can send a oneliner PR to get her site included on https//fullname.dev if she wants, and if she hasn't yet started using GutHub this would be a good learning opportunity for it.

I love that site! Feels refreshing and old. Nice to see that not everyone learns to code these days by following a terrible React tutorial that gives them nearly a gigabyte of dependencies for a simple project.

"hi cutie" lol... someone knows how to market well

I forgot she added this for me. She doesn't know I posted this here and thinks I'm her only visitor still. She'll be embarrassed, but I told her if she's not embarrassed with her first version, she's shipping too late.

> she's not embarrassed with her first version, she's shipping too late.

Valuable wisdom! Thus inspired, I might make it "If you aren't embarrassed, you haven't shipped yet"

i meant that in a positive/fun way, sorry if it came across as rude :-)

Not at all!

Yeah, it was certainly one of the more flattering websites I've seen all week. :)

> I have no idea what I am doing, but I like it.

Talk about relatable. 10 years in and I still feel this way.

Since it was brought up by @CydeWeys, here is Natalie's GitHub repository of this website: https://github.com/nataliepeterson/coconut. PR's (and issues) are welcome :)

She should definitely send a PR to add herself to fullname.dev then! https://github.com/CydeWeys/fullname.dev

Thanks, I just passed this along to her!

My girlfriend is in an incredibly similar position, shes an embryologist pursuing a CS degree, but it's at a super old traditional school and their tech isn't sexy web dev javascript type tech.

Do you or your girlfriend have any advice for her? A good tutorial or course or book that's been really helpful to your girlfriend and can help mine ship something soon?

Lovely website! One suggestion: it looks like the image is randomized on each click - the UX is that sometimes it doesn't work, because the randomly chosen image is (presumably) the same one - so probably the better choice would be to randomly chose a different image.

My girlfriend is in an incredibly similar position, shes an embryologist pursuing a CS degree, but it's at a super old traditional school and their tech isn't sexy web dev javascript type tech.

Do you or your girlfriend have any advice for her? A good tutorial or course or book that's been really helpful to your girlfriend and can help mine ship something soon?

“I have no idea what I am doing but I like it!”

Haha what a fun website.

lol I love this, especially the little easter eggs.