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Animated gif + ugly HTML that makes $1 is more valuable than node.js + jquery + whatnot that makes $0.

You're lucky to hear that advice when you're still 16 :)

Hm, I was just wondering why a personal site need to be powered by node? If it's just as a learning experience - no shame in that!

I used node to build other parts of the site - namely the blog, a link shortener, and a few APIs I wrote just for my own other projects.