tim
Really enjoyed your site, as well as a guestbook! It's been a while since I've signed an online guestbook, so I appreciate the bit of nostalgia. 🙂
Guestbook
Please sign my guestbook!
In the spirit of a (welcome, and overdue!) resurgence of nostalgia for the old, decentralised web, where many of us bashed out our own personal homepages and filled them with whimsical, social stuff not only intended to make us look good for prospective clients or employers, I've built myself a this little guestbook.
Don't expect instant updates, new messages will be moderated, and added when I next deploy my site :)
Privacy Policy
I do not track you, I do not run analytics, I do not set cookies.
I do write to session storage, so that you don't get surprised when your chosen high contrast or dark/light modes turn on or off as you navigate around the site. This disappears the moment you close the tab, or browse away.
The only data I receive from you, is that which you freely give me through the email or guestbook forms.
Because doing contact forms properly is surprisingly complicated, these are powered by Netlify Forms, which sends the input through Akismet spam filtering. Should you want a copy or would like me to delete anything you sent me, I will happily oblige - contact me in whichever way you prefer to ask for this.
Alternatively, you can directly email me if you add contact@ to the beginning of the domain of this website :)
david
You’ve officially been visited by a random internet traveler. Congrats!
Zachary Kai
Your site has been such an inspiration in building mine, thank you so much! I love the tabs at the top like a filing system and how you can change the theme.
levelsi
Sara, your site is one of the most fresh examples of artistic work I saw on the web!
czar
Your site made me happy. Thank you.
Wow
Hi
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Gweetings web serfs and serfers
cahya
hi
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Just saying hi 👋
Siobhan
Sara! I stumbled down a nostalgic web rabbit hole and somehow landed on your Mastodon, recognised your face, and thought I'd say hello! 👋🏻 How lovely to visit your space on the web :) I hope you don't mind! Siobhan (from the PGCE days of madness)
rust
I like your tab scrolling effect. And yay guestbooks, feels like 1999.
lee
taking my first strides into real web dev (I've dabbled a bit for my personal site, but largely borrowed for that) and your site is such an inspiration!
Dave (barrd)
Hi Sara, what a wonderful site you have, so many little treasures to find and play with. Very inspiring indeed and I'm looking forward to future posts.
Sandra
Hi Sarah! Your site is too cute and i found it when i was searching for inspiration.
JCProbably
Hi Sara. Great page! I especially like your twist on Week Notes with Weak Notes. It's been serving as an inspiration. My week notes tend to be pretty weak at times. Hah. -JC
julian
Hello from south africa! Love your blog and your website itself, the menu tabs and the color mode cycler are my fav features.
Adam Alexander
Badly needed some indieweb mojo today. Love the Gen X Baz Luhrman throwback, and can't remember the last time i signed a guestbook (pre 9/11 perhaps?)! Glad the global mega tech corps that rule us haven't taken over all of our souls ❤️
Charles Beadle
Whoa! Neat website. Hello from Tampa, FL.
Robert Birming
Hey Sara, just found your blog. Love the content and the look and feel. Discovered the cool CSS Joy and added it to the list of resources on the ‘Blog Inspiration’ page on my blog. Happy blogging! 🤩
Alberto Prado
Hi Sara, I think this is the first time that i sign a GuestBook. Saludos desde México!
John Philpin
Subject duly ignored! Stopping by to say 'Hi' .. Manu pointed me in your direction.
Salam
That subject field you have is looking suspicious :D
Glitch
Cool site :)
Rilou
Hello. I took a look around and I really enjoy reading the blog. riloufatui@gmail.com
Geoff Graham
A haiku... for you. Selectors dance wild, Floats drift in a sea of style, Pixels cry, "Center!"
Frills
I find your website and general online presence to be very inspiring! Thanks for sharing everything with us ✌️
Ben LaCroix
I was so pumped to find this site! It honestly has the slickest implementation of color/contrast/day-nite toggles I've ever seen… super inspiring. All the best.
Fred
Thank you for the information and insight you have shared.
Raul
Hello from spain!
Jose Munoz
I love this site!
Sara
Hello Sara from another Sara in Aalborg, Denmark. I like your site, it reminds me of gentler times when the Internet was all about connection. Have a lovely day!
Boris Johnson
Jolly good stuff. I particularly like the little tab things. Reminds me of my old Rolodex. Carry on! BoJo
ocean
hi!
Angstlotse
What a creative solution Sara! Thanks for being your guest!! Testing on chrome. Många helsingar Mario
Bye
Hilow from Ireland! I gotta put a guestbook on my own pages at some point lol
Tyler Sticka
Greetings from Oregon! Just wanted to say how much I enjoy your content: Your friendly vibe and genuine enthusiasm is such a wonderful complement to what is clearly a deep devotion to the craft of web design and development. Have a wonderful day!
Aubrey
Hey, it’s starshaped from Mastodon! It has probably been about 20 years since I signed a guestbook so here I am, saying hello while I eat dinner and catch up on Mastodon :D I don’t remember what I used to post in guestbooks back in the day, but hi! Hope you had a good day!
Hollie
Hello from Springfield, Oregon, home of The Simpsons - and also a lot of famous runners for some reason! I enjoy guest books, I'd like to figure out how to get one on my website (currently hosted by micro.blog so might not be possible, we'll see). Your site is really fun! :)
Eric
I have not written into a guestbook for YEARS!
Alistair Shepherd
Hey Sara! I’m thinking to start a band called HTML Encoder. Do you know where I can buy a guitar &?
Rebecca
Helloooo <dancing_baby.gif>
Alexandra
Moose-tidings from the Frozen North 👋🏻 Looks like you got quite a few guests saying *Hello*
Daniel Schildt
Your writings and shared wisdom brings joy to the world. Keep the good things happening. ☺️
Ryan Trimble
Hello guest book!
Philip Zastrow
Hello from Ohio! Sara, I have really enjoyed following you on Mastodon and our interactions there. Your Weak Notes are inspiring me on ways to write more. First, for myself and then sharing it on the Open Web. Cheers!
Ryan
Hey! Do you know the history of SPAM? Spam has a unique history of rising to fame. From the warzones to now being a sought-after item in grocery stores, Spam has set a distinguished trend in meat selling. Spam was first created in the year 1937, during the Great Depression, in Austin, Minnesota. The creator, Jay Hormel of Hormel Foods, initiated the idea of selling Spam locally, targeting average families. The actor Ken Daigneau named the canned meat in a contest and labeled it SPAM, an acronym for 'Spiced Ham.' He won $100 as a reward. The Second World War leveraged the popularity of Spam for its easy storage and long shelf-life. This cheap meat became a necessity with the destruction of agriculture and a shortage of food products. In 1941, more than 100 million pounds of Spam were shipped to the allied troops. It was consumed with great enthusiasm, especially on the Pacific front.
Alan
My recurring thought is that if we can lower the barrier to folks making their own sites then more folks will spend more time being creative and will be less angry as a result Your site is an amazing inspiration of what can be done simply great work
Andy Piper
Lovely to see a guestbook! Hello from London, UK. I may also need to borrow your concept of "weaknotes", since my blogging and newsletter habits have fallen into such disuse.
Matt Stein
Thrilled to leave a note on your internet webpage!
Internet Wanderer
Hi from Kathmandu, Nepal!
Ben
YESSS BRING BACK GUESTBOOKS how I've missed these 🥲 thank you
Chris Burnell
Absolutely love your website! It's a real joy to browse and read, pun ~not~ intended! Reading about how you've built the various bits and pieces (the sticky navigation in particular is so slick!) has been super enlightening, and I’m looking forward to seeing the next Weak Note pop up in my RSS Reader—what a great concept! :D I might have to try something like them myself. All the best, and long live the guestbook!
wrath
heyo! checking you out from canada!
Piet
Super fun website! I love the minimalism with a healthy Color palette. Also, considering a guestbook for my site now. Great idea!
felix waller
This is such a well thought out and fun site, and I love the minimalist version complementing it!
David Palmer
Giving the visitor control of the background is very cool. I don't think I've ever seen that before.
Chris DeLuca
Really enjoying the site design. Have only explored on my phone but the scrolling through sections that “attach” to the top is a nice touch, and performance is smooth! Not always easy with scroll stuff.
Jason
Hi! Just found your site via a boost on Mastodon (https://front-end.social/@sarajw/110310963430439304)! Love the cool, creative vibe here! Just subscribed to your RSS, looking forward to reading more from you in the future!
Farai Gandiya
Hey, nice site.
Mark Katerberg
Love the site and the "now" page. You're an inspiration to care about the pretty things and make the things I work on slightly less than horribly ugly. Thanks for making the web a nicer place.
David Palmer
"Listen to the wind blow, watch the sun rise." Mac, F. (1977), The Chain, Rumours, [Vinyl]. United States, Warner Records.
Thomas Rigby
Hi Sara! *waves*
Manu
Thank you for helping me brainstorm guestbook related ideas. If I end up with a guestbook on my site is because of to the conversation with you. Keep being awesome.
Elly Loel
Ah! Yes yes yes, I absolutely love guestbooks 🎉 Also love your site, best of luck with the minimalising, refactoring and silly-ifying!
Mayank
beep boop!
Jeremy Neander
The web must flow!
Marina Wottschal
Wink
Sarah (11918) Rainsberger
Great site! It's so fun! I love your section for "thorts" and reclaiming micro-blogging. You've made a fun little corner of the web! 🚀
Tyler Mumford
It's great to see another front-end developer having fun and doing awesome things on the web! You're one of my favorite people to follow on Mastodon, too. I love the section of tech logos on your site, and the word "Scwerpunkt." 🙂
Deeds
Cool tabbed design you’ve got going on! Many web greetings from this Dutchie 👋
Linus Bohman
Yikes, I might've sent you an e-mail instead of signed your guestbook? Regardless, love that you revived the guestbook concept - it's so nostalgic to me. I also appreciated the honest reflections on how you became a developer. We need more of that on the web. Keep doing awesome stuff!
Jens
Moin Sara’s guestbook 🤘
The Web Glowworm
I have been sleeping since 1999 when back then I would leave my glowing messages across many a guestbook on a then young web. Today I've woken up to a glorious renaissance of a time that makes me glow strong and puts a smile on my chubby cheeks - thank you for having a guest book. I now leave you in search of more guestbooks to leave my mark as I continue to crawl around the web. With love, - The Web Glowworm
Gabrielle
This is so nostalgic! Love the site!
Samkap
Yayyyy! Guestbook! Amazing work getting this going so quickly!
henry ✷
omg what a site! the CSS art! the sticky tab layout! wonderful, @sarajw — thanks for adding your site [to personalsit.es]. (Reproduced with permission from GitHub)
laker
nice site :D
Jeffrey
Generalists ftw! Enjoy the throwback guestbook, remember eBay reviews? would navigate to again A+++++++ quick shipping nice beanie baby
Xan Surnamehere
Nice website! Found it from your tweet from October about buying the domain from Porkbun (which is a great registrar)
Peter
Dear Sara, we met only recently on Mastodon thanks to the kerfuffles of a certain billionaire. Happy we did, I really enjoy what you write and create. Case in point: this very guestbook here – how cool is that <3 <3 <3 Here's to keeping the spirit of the web alive and well!
Jake
Cool, a guestbook! This is rad. Takes me back. I'm old enough to remember everyone using them in the 90s on their personal sites. Why'd we stop? Love it. 😀
ryan
OMG.lolving your site. Awesome work. Adding your blog to my RSS now.
Steve
Love the site - and really enjoyed reading your "Senior Generalist" post - well done! :)
Bukky
1337 h4x0r!!!!
Robb Knight
Hello Sara!
Sara
woohoo!
Sara
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