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

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Post by vedranm »

catpolice wrote: post #84
Gigablah wrote: post #23

https://acko.net A jaw-dropping website by Steven Wittens that pushes the boundaries of what your browser can do. Nothing I've seen has ever topped this wizardry. (You should view it on desktop, with WebGL capability.)

If I saw this linked from a resume, I'd throw the resume out. The projects are impressive and I haven't spent enough time with the essays to evaluate their technical merits, but the anti-harassment-policy rant is like a giant, blinking "DO NOT HIRE ME" sign. I wouldn't want this guy anywhere near my team.

When you make a statement like this, you should also mention which company you are managing the hiring process for so people who disagree with these anti-meritocratic and anti-freedom measures know where not to apply. Saves everybody's time.

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

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Post by unimpressive »

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.

Wow, your site has the most original interface I've ever seen. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing, but it certainly leaves an impression.

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

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Post by pc86 »

mikecsh wrote: post #275
notzorbo3 wrote: post #257

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the context of a showcase website, first impressions matter. You want the work to be front and center. Not the fact that you can't design a usable website.

To a degree. Sometimes it's OK for the user to have to put a modicum of effort in, especially for something which is not a product or service.

Where "a modicum of effort" is have a specific type of machine?

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

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Post by pc86 »

ryandrake wrote: post #137
chris_7 wrote: post #57

It 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.

Sadly, shameless self-promotion works. It gets you hired, it advances your career, and it opens up doors to great opportunities. The talented hacker with just a standard resume that lists their projects and results will always get passed over for the self-promoter with mediocre output who glosses it up with superlatives and bullshit, blogs about himself every week and has 10K twitter followers.

Saying this is "sad" is the same thing as saying it's sad that marketing or sales have to exist. Not everything knows about everything that's out there. You have to tell them. That doesn't make the act of telling them bad or dirty.

As someone progresses in their career, their job is as much about selling the business or their boss on the direction they want to go as it is writing good code or architecting good systems. If your idea of a great website showcasing your work is a 12pt. Times New Roman list of GitHub links, what does that say about your ability to progress beyond stubbing out interfaces all day?

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

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Post by subinsebastien »

fredley wrote: post #2

A personal project website that's a personal project in itself.

I personally built a small blog engine, with a subset of features from Jekyll, which can generate blog posts and home page out of markdown. It was definitely a project on its own.
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