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Re: Ask HN: How can I improve my personal website?

#11
I think this is cool but I agree with others that it may miss the target for some recruiters. There should be an 'easy' option that is more like a typical portfolio site.

A small UX suggestion is that the projects command should be able to take an integer as an argument and show that project e.g.

$ projects 1

^ takes you directly to the capstone project view.

Re: Ask HN: How can I improve my personal website?

#14
The top of the CV in PDF form gave me way more information about yourself than the website gave for 4ish minutes clicking around.

I learnt that you'd into scripting languages, have (claim, it's a CV) database skill, bunch of infrastructure skills. The CV is pretty good given that's what you're trying to put across, a technologist with an infrastructure/scale twist.

The website before finding the CV made me thing 'Is this guy React or Angular'? And nothing more.

Re: Ask HN: How can I improve my personal website?

#15
time, it's all about time or lack of it. So if a person is hiring and goes to your website... they aren't going to type help, then resume, then open the pdf... which could be infested with malware (just kidding). too many clicks. research potential companies you might want to work for, pick up the phone, network etc

Re: Ask HN: How can I improve my personal website?

#17
It's a cool idea but I think it would be better as a project your site links to then the site itself.

Keep in mind the main reason people are going to your site, they want to judge you for hiring. Also remember this person has probably looked at a lot of resumes already and is planning to look at a lot more. The terminal interface is fun but if I was looking to hire I would close it and move on because it's going to take way to much time for me to get to the information I want.

Re: Ask HN: How can I improve my personal website?

#18

Not a major issue, nor does it deal with your website but - your resume should be in LaTeX! How to: - Copy the source code from a .tex template[0] you like. - Create an account at ShareLaTeX[1]. - Start a new blank project, name it 'firstnamelastnameresume' (always save your resume with your first name, last name, followed by the word resume). - Delete the code in the main.tex file and paste the code from the .tex fr…

I would personally remove the "objective" portion from the resumes. It's known to all parties involved what you are looking for is a job, you don't need to spell it out to them and it uses space that could be better used.

Re: Ask HN: How can I improve my personal website?

#19
If you go through the trouble of emulating a shell, the least you could do is to make sure most commonly used commands worked (like ls, cat, tail etc) but maybe that is just me.

I would probably have made this as a seperate gimmick on a "normal" web site.

Re: Ask HN: How can I improve my personal website?

#20
You can be more friendlier and intuitive with the text design - I went to projects mistyped 1 the first time (used "a") and then tried 1 again and it seems to have put me back at the base level.

If you can make the text interface as easy to noobs as point and click you will make a good statement.

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