Some personal websites become useful enough that people stop thinking of them as personal websites.
EvanMiller.org is one of those places.
The homepage is a dense index of technical writing, software, mathematical notes, ranking methods, programming experiments, and statistical tools. It includes material on A/B testing, confidence intervals, rating systems, probability, programming languages, Nginx, Erlang, data formats, and open-source software.
One article, Statistical Formulas for Programmers, collected classical statistical methods into a compact working reference aimed directly at developers. Another series explains ranking systems for stars, votes, hotness, and news items. The site also hosts sample-size calculators and other tools for experiment design.
A technical notebook that escaped its owner
The interesting historical pattern here is how a personal site can become infrastructure without ever turning into a publication company.
Miller’s writing circulated because programmers linked directly to individual pages. Search results, Hacker News discussions, blog posts, documentation, and forum answers sent readers into a site that still looked structurally like one person’s corner of the Web.
That architecture is important.
A useful article stays where it was published. Years later, somebody can still link to the same explanation instead of pointing at a screenshot of a thread or a deleted social post.
Miller’s homepage even keeps a project graveyard alongside software that still works. That is exactly the kind of honest chronology personal sites are good at. Dead projects do not need to vanish merely because they are no longer maintained.
The site has continued evolving rather than being frozen as a museum piece. Newer work sits beside old Nginx notes, old Erlang references, statistics articles, ranking formulas, and programming-language reviews. The result is a visible technical career expressed as hyperlinks.
CacheRat’s 1,967 Ancient Web Domains research list includes many pages that demonstrate the same principle: the Web works best when useful knowledge has a stable address.
EvanMiller.org is what happens when that address remains useful for a very long time.