Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?
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Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?
#142First 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.
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...
It was terrible under Firefox on my Surface Book, so out of curiosity I then tried it on Edge: scrolling doesn’t work at all on the touchpad or touchscreen (the arrow keys, Space, Shift+Space, Home and End don’t work in any browser). The scrollbar is the only thing that allows you to navigate down the page.
Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?
#143I suppose opinions differ, but I like things where content is king, and these are excellent:
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#144It seems like a lot of these are very promotional - using a lot of superlatives to describe the person, and all of their work/accomplishments. Is this necessary? I feel very uncomfortable doing that sort of thing, it feels cringey I guess.
I'm afraid Xcelerate has shown us that hacker news readers' ego allows this sort of thread to get to the #1 page...
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Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?
#145First 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.
I thought worrydream was very nice and I could see why it was being upvoted. Then I enabled JS, and it completely breaks scrolling and loads a ton of images :|
Highlighting worrydream (I think) was less about the site, and more about the site content. Bret Victor has dedicated an incredible amount of time to writing about design [1], visualization[2], reality[3], climate change[4], among other things.
1. http://worrydream.com/#!/LearnableProgramming
2. http://worrydream.com/#!2/LadderOfAbstraction
Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?
#146First 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.
trying to scroll is horrible
Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?
#147Daniel Johnson's blog is hard to beat
Stephen Wittens' site is another that comes to mind
Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?
#148I guess I can post my own, although there's not that many projects on there: http://iheanyi.com
Also feel free to peep my old one: http://iheanyi.github.io. I didn't like this one because it was too image heavy, but I did like the layout of case studies better in this iteration than in my new one.
And I guess another old iteration I was using when I was looking in college: http://old.iheanyi.com. Yeah, I know. I re-design my website a lot.
Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?
#149Sarah Federman - http://sarah.codes/ Sarah Drasner - http://sarahdrasnerdesign.com/ Assume whoever looks at your portfolio is going to scroll from top to bottom first, get a first impression, then _maybe_ click through things later. So build for the question "What do I want people to see if they scroll through my site without clicking on anything?"
> So build for the question "What do I want people to see if they scroll through my site without clicking on anything?"
The home page of the first site could literally fit all of its quickly parseable informational content with no scrolling required and without being too dense (on a desktop - minimal scrolling would be needed on mobile).
Does anyone really enjoy looking at seemingly-random large background images while trying to pick out the isolated islands of text as they scroll - complete with shifting brightness/contrast? I used to think not, but it's becoming so prevalent I begin to think I'm in the minority.
Pictures convey a lot of information, but (IMO) people don't want a lot of information when first visiting a place - they want an overview that they can digest quickly, and they want to be able to drill deeper for more details. Images.
Pictures also take a lot more time to process - it was three passes through the site you linked before I realized that the pictures were actually showing (through pictures of devices...) examples of her work - I was there for information, but didn't realize some of that information was png-encoded.
Some of her work looks quite good - but if I weren't paying extra attention for purposes of writing this, I would have never seen it.
Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?
#150Like many of before me, I'll share my own website (currently in redesign, so I'll provide links via internet archive) - built in Nanoc3, hosted on github pages:
Main page: https://web.archive.org/web/20150801213611/http://lukaszkups...
Experience page: https://web.archive.org/web/20150826004819/http://lukaszkups...
About page: https://web.archive.org/web/20150826004912/http://lukaszkups...
Contact page: https://web.archive.org/web/20150826004918/http://lukaszkups...
Blog page: https://web.archive.org/web/20150826004935/http://lukaszkups...
I will release new design next week, based on brand-new static site generator ;)