About

How yshome got its name

The full name was "JaeYong's Homepage," but friends just called it "Yong's Home." The nickname was shortened to ysh, and when it came time to register a domain, every variation of ysh turned out to be taken. So yshome was born — and yshome.me became its address.

yshome is not about any single topic. It is a personal space — a place to record and preserve whatever matters at the time: technology, daily life, stray thoughts. It has existed in various forms since 1998.

A brief history

• 1998: The first version, built with a WYSIWYG editor (Namo Web Editor), table layouts, and dropdown menus — part of the late-90s Korean personal homepage culture.
• 2012: A hand-coded rewrite using HTML5 and CSS3, with parallax scrolling experiments. The first modern overhaul.
• 2014: A Bootstrap redesign that introduced sub-projects — start.yshome (a browser start page), cloud.yshome (file sharing via Pydio), and SVG Matters (an SVG research project). Its creator called himself a "software artist." This version is preserved at /2014/.
• Now: Rebuilt with Astro and Tailwind CSS. Minimal design, fast and lightweight.

The weblog

weblog in yshome holds 536 posts written between 2009 and 2019. They cover a wide range of topics — tech notes, daily observations, reviews, and personal reflections — all in Korean, exactly as they were originally written.

The philosophy behind keeping them is simple: a personal blog is not social media. "I only want to let someone read my personal journal post who actually visits my page." The entries are preserved as-is, unedited and unfiltered.

About the author

Jaeyong Kim created and maintains this site. He has been interested in web technologies for as long as he can remember, and yshome is the longest-running result of that interest.

Get in touch

Questions, suggestions, or just want to say hello? Head over to the Contact page.