Austin Tripp's website (Posts about website)

Some odd requests I've received to put links on my website.

Austin Tripp — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

In the ~8 years since I started my website I've had a bunch of people reach out to me requesting that a link be added to my "links" page (currently called resources). The emails I got were fairly personalized (and this was in the pre-GPT era where I believe such personalized emails would actually need to be written by a human). Yet the topic of the link they sent was often incredibly random- like they didn't even read my website. Here are a few of the weirdest emails for your enjoyment. I've anonymized them and excluded the links (since I don't actually want to link to them).

How I chose a static site generator

Austin Tripp — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Recently, I wanted to update my website to look a bit more polished (and support additional features such as automatically generating pages for my publications). In the end I decided to completely switch from building my website with Jekyll to nikola instead. This post explains my thought process for this (in case anybody else is considering a similar switch).

Reasons to have a website

Austin Tripp — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT

I created this website because I thought (and continue to think) that having a website can benefit one's career. Essentially, a professional website serves as an accessible source of information about oneself for prospective employers, coworkers, and employees. Unless you put something horrible on your website, the effect should at worst be neutral, so there is essentially no downside to having one.

In the remainder of the post I will lay out a more detailed case for having a website and address some potential hesitations people might have about creating one.

Launched my website

Austin Tripp — Sat, 24 Mar 2018 00:00:00 GMT

Didn't know that creating a decent looking website could be this easy. Thanks Jekyll. Also thanks to this website for walking me through the process.