aliabdaal.com, Ali's website (2016)
project history · status: running · last event: milestone (2021-04-22) · owner: Ali
Origin known from later mentions
2016 in the title is when this began; it first appears in the videos read here in 2020, so the earlier part is known only from what is said later.
About: Krabby, Ghost, aliabdaal.com
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-09-21 | milestone | Ali buys the Ghost theme Krabby for a new design of his website aliabdaal.com. | Code with Me - My New Website Design 00:04:00 |
| 2021-02-04 (happened 2016) | looked back | Ali started his personal blog around five years before this video, having known since his first year of university that he wanted to start some kind of blog. | How Writing Online Made me a Millionaire 00:00:00 |
| 2021-03-04 | milestone | Ali recently did a whole redesign of his personal website, aliabdaal.com. | My Favourite Mac Apps - What's on my Macbook Pro 00:06:16 |
| 2021-04-11 (happened 2016) | looked back | Ali has made websites since about the age of 12; starting his personal website in 2016 was one of the best decisions of his life and ultimately led to his YouTube channel. | How To Build A Website in 2026 00:00:00 |
| 2021-04-22 | milestone | Ali still dabbles in design and code and has recently redesigned his personal website, aliabdaal.com. | The 4 Hobbies that Improved my Life 00:02:10 |
What is said about it
6 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2019-06-05 · My 7 Favourite iPad OS Features - Apple WWDC 2019 — Ali uses Ghost for his website in 2019 and cannot edit his posts on the iPad as fully as on a desktop; with iPadOS he expects to make website changes on the fly. — 00:03:04
- 2020-09-21 · Code with Me - My New Website Design — Ali plans to ask Angus to think about the hierarchy and structure of the many tags on his website. — 00:42:49
- 2020-09-21 · Code with Me - My New Website Design — Ali sets out to make a custom home page for his website. — 01:30:04
- 2020-09-21 · Code with Me - My New Website Design — Ali ends the session with his website looking all right for now; what remains is mostly restructuring it and making sure there are landing pages for everything. — 02:21:22
- 2021-03-04 · My Favourite Mac Apps - What's on my Macbook Pro — Ali designed the new pages of his website, including its blog post layouts, in Figma and handed them to a developer called Dan, who coded them into the site's theme on Ghost. — 00:06:45
- 2021-05-13 · My Favourite Tech for Reading Books - Kindle vs iPad vs Books vs Audiobooks — Ali uses the iPad mainly to take copious notes on or summarise a book he has read, with the Kindle app on one side and Notion, Roam or Drafts on the other, and posts the summaries on his website. — 00:13:25