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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?

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Post by hfsktr »

HCIdivision17 wrote: post #89
hfsktr wrote: post #72

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I browse all sites with javascript disabled by default. I didn't know what to expect in this thread as I'm not a designer and hold none of those skills. I thought maybe the sites would be more about the content of the project than the design.

Then look at the article about how acko.net was built. You'll want JS active, since like all of his work, it's usefully interactive. https://acko.net/blog/zero-to-sixty-in-one-second/

I plan on visiting many articles on the site. The one I did read was pretty long (even this one is long to me) so if they are all that long it will be a slow process but I liked what I saw.

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

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Post by mdrzn »

dougk16 wrote: post #81
grenoire wrote: post #47

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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...

Did you mean worrydream or my personal website? If you mean mine, sorry for the scroll-jacking! It's been a few years since I've touched the input handling code and that kind of stuff tends to rust really fast. Might have to go back in there.

Talking about worrydream.com

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

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Post by ollerac »

blobman wrote: post #7

I've been running my personal projects website ( http://www.michalpaszkiewicz.co.uk ) for just over 2 years and I get a job offer almost every week (not just the typical spamming recruiters, but startup owners who said they liked my work). I'm also pretty certain I got my current job due to the fact I could impress my interviewers with my open source code. My design isn't great but what counts is the amount of materi…

791 on gnomes and salamanders ;)

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

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Post by dougk16 »

pen2l wrote: post #90
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.

My corporate firewall has your domain name on a shitlist, for the stated reason of distributing viruses and malware. Have you been told this before?

Could you give me any more information? My original site (years and years ago) was a PHP monster that got hacked briefly through a security vulnerability in my hosting provider (wasn't my fault, I swear!), so maybe the corporate firewall just has a long memory?

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

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Post by at-fates-hands »

chuckdries wrote: post #44

Since people are posting theirs, here's mine: http://chuckdries.rocks My issue is that I don't have a very impressive resume yet (though I should probably link a PDF of my current resume anyway), so I decided to keep it simple and lightweight but also stylish because I bill myself as the intersection of tech and design.

I have a printable PDF with my resume on it on my own site. It makes it a lot easier to deal with recruiters or smaller agencies when they ask for a resume. You can just send them the link.

It's a good time saver.

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

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Post by wlesieutre »

mdrzn wrote: post #92
dougk16 wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you mean worrydream or my personal website? If you mean mine, sorry for the scroll-jacking! It's been a few years since I've touched the input handling code and that kind of stuff tends to rust really fast. Might have to go back in there.

Talking about worrydream.com

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.

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

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Post by benharrison »

thisisnotanexit wrote: post #22
louismerlin wrote: post #9

http://louis.merlin.family Kept it minimal :)

I think you should remove (future) from your subheader. You've demonstrated that you are a software engineer already from your 'What I coded' section so you're selling yourself short.

This.

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

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Post by _andromeda_ »

kepoly wrote: post #74

Creating an account just to post this (it's not mine): http://www.rleonardi.com/interactive-resume/

You beat me to it. When I saw the this Ask HN, the first thing that came to my mind was this website. It was widely covered in blogs a while back. Very impressive!

It always reminds me of super Mario.

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