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Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?

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Post by StavrosK »

Going by what I do, the answer to your question is a bit problematic. I don't work on projects for others, I work on them for myself, and merely like showing them to others, so I'm bad at keeping a list of everything in one place and up-to-date.

That said, I did try to create a single page of some of my projects so people can look at them more easily: https://www.stavros.io/projects/

The other day I also decided to give my resume some love, so I created a single page with side-projects I believe to be worthy of mention: http://resume.stavros.io/

Maybe those two will give you some idea. I've scrolled through some of the other responses in this thread, but I'm not sure I like the project sites that are tech demos themselves. They seem to conflate "optimizing the listing of projects" with "optimizing showing a project". Most of the linked sites are great tech demos, but very bad at getting me to click on the actual posts themselves. Then again, maybe mine is worse.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?

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Post by wlesieutre »

rpeden wrote: post #104
wlesieutre wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I'm in Chrome on Windows and a full spin of the scroll wheel moves it down about 5 pixels. Given how much thought he puts into user experience in his projects, that's really weird. I have to scroll with click and drag and sort of "throw" the page upward as if I'm using a touchscreen.

That is really weird. I'm using Chrome on Windows too, and my scroll wheel works normally on the site. I wonder what is causing the different behaviors we're seeing.

It works sorta-fine in Firefox. I say "sorta" because it overrides the browser's smooth scrolling to move in jerky steps on every click of the wheel, but at least it moves useably fast.

To hazard a guess, the testing environment was a Mac with trackpad scrolling. Each scrolling step on that would be small enough that "teleport to next scroll position" looks smooth, and breaking the built-in smooth scrolling wouldn't be noticeable.

I do wish people would stop trying to reimplement scrolling and just let the OS/browser do it...

FWIW I'm in Chrome 54 on Windows 7.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?

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Post by patmcguire »

http://quartermaester.info/

It's an interactive Game of Thrones map. It shows you where everyone is at a given time. You select who you want to track, drag through time and the character path trails show up on the map. The interface is genius, best I've seen for messing around with (thing, place, time) triples.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?

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Post by arethuza »

This one isn't about the website (which is basic in the extreme) but the work that is documented on the website - which is a collection of absolutely stunning precision engineering projects:

http://www.tatjavanvark.nl/projects.html

[NB Along with things like the restoration of Navigation and Bombing Computers from UK strategic bombers!].

Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?

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Post by nateberkopec »

dougk16 wrote: post #32

First the master: http://worrydream.com/ Surprised nobody's posted it yet. Other people are also posting their own, so here's mine: http://www.dougkoellmer.com/ Other job-hunt-specific efforts: http://www.dougkoellmer.com/portfolio/ http://www.dougkoellmer.com/resume/ http://www.dougkoellmer.com/games/ Can't be totally sure but I believe they've gotten me a job or two.

Man, downloading all the images on worrydream.com takes me 5 full seconds, and I have a 50 megabit line.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?

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Post by fludlight »

There was a personal site by a guy named Rademacher (sp?) that had apartments on craigslist in San Francisco overlayed on google maps. IIRC, it was a solution to a pet peeve that became really popular. He later formed a company with some other GIS-in-the-browser people that quickly got acquhired by some big tech corp.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?

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Post by kbenson »

actualdc1 wrote: post #88

http://www.gwern.net/ Does gwern fall into this category? While I'd need to know more about what he's like in person, the author certainly seems like a technically competent individual.

While likely not specifically what the submitter was looking for (that is, will help you get hired), the fact that I immediately searched for "gwern" in the comments so I could upvote or submit myself points towards it definitely being am example of a personal site/project that is memorable.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?

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Post by dsp1234 »

mdrzn wrote: post #63
grenoire wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The first one you linked messes up with my scrolling and makes is incredibly slow, I have to use the thin scrollbar on the rights side due to that...

Same, I think it's on purpose.

Why would someone purposefully make navigation of their site significantly worse than the default?
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