Modern websites are encouraged to explain their purpose in one sentence. Jake Meinershagen’s page answers that demand with something better: “Behold, my stuff.”
Visit Jake Meinershagen’s site.
The links underneath are exactly what that sentence promises. There are personal ramblings, astronomy beginner information, instructions on finding things with a telescope, material about the Large Compact Telescope, a page about standing in line at Powell, a countdown timer, a discussion timer and material about artificial intelligence.
There is no obvious content strategy tying this together because a human being is the organizing principle.
That used to be an ordinary architecture for the web. Your homepage was where you put the things you knew, made or wanted to remember. If you wrote a useful telescope guide, it lived next to your joke page. If you built a timer because you needed one, other people could use it too. A site did not have to choose between being a blog, software product, knowledge base or portfolio.
The astronomy material is a good example of why these pages remain useful. Beginner advice written by an experienced person often contains the small practical details formal references skip: how to start looking, what expectations to have and how to translate an abstract sky chart into something you can actually find through glass in the dark.
Then, one click away, the subject can change completely.
This kind of structure is terrible if your goal is to make every visitor travel through a conversion funnel. It is excellent if your goal is to leave behind a map of what interested one person over time.
In 2026, personal homepages like this are also increasingly valuable to search. The web is saturated with pages designed around queries. A miscellaneous personal page can contain an answer nobody commissioned because somebody solved the problem for themselves and bothered to publish it.
That is the old web at its most practical: not a museum aesthetic, just people leaving tools and notes where strangers can reach them.
Browse Jake Meinershagen’s collection of stuff. The lesson is almost embarrassingly simple: a website does not need a niche when the niche is the person who made it.