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Re: Show HN: Pocketsquare – portfolios for developers

#31

Post by cableshaft » Thu, Oct 08, 2015, 2:04 PM UTC

Yeah, you need to add more languages and frameworks, and not just the things that are out and popular now. I'd want to include projects from awhile back, personally, and that includes projects made from Flash. I know its unfashionable now (and I no longer use it), but it's how a lot of devs got started.

If you want game developers to find this useful, you might want to consider adding:

C++, C, Unity, Unreal SDK, Cocos2D, Lua, Flash, Havok, Direct X, OpenGL, VR. Maybe show a list of consoles to show specific console dev experience.

Re: Show HN: Pocketsquare – portfolios for developers

#32

Post by fimdomeio » Thu, Oct 08, 2015, 2:07 PM UTC

issue: Can't reorder experience items and they are not sorted by date.

Re: Show HN: Pocketsquare – portfolios for developers

#33

Post by alanfriedman » Thu, Oct 08, 2015, 2:08 PM UTC

zatkin wrote: post #23

Good work so far. Just a few things: - I graduate from university in 2016, but I can only choose up to 2015 for the end date - This is in Chrome 45, Windows 8.1: http://i.imgur.com/u5xMXob.png

Thanks - I'll think about how to incorporate future dates. And wow those scrollbars look terrible. Sorry about that! I think I can fix it pretty easily with CSS overflow.

Re: Show HN: Pocketsquare – portfolios for developers

#34

Post by alanfriedman » Thu, Oct 08, 2015, 2:09 PM UTC

fimdomeio wrote: post #32

issue: Can't reorder experience items and they are not sorted by date.

Yeah, this is on my list for sure. Projects, experience and education will all be sorted by date until there's an option to manually sort. I'm working on it!

Re: Show HN: Pocketsquare – portfolios for developers

#35

Post by alanfriedman » Thu, Oct 08, 2015, 2:10 PM UTC

cableshaft wrote: post #31

Yeah, you need to add more languages and frameworks, and not just the things that are out and popular now. I'd want to include projects from awhile back, personally, and that includes projects made from Flash. I know its unfashionable now (and I no longer use it), but it's how a lot of devs got started. If you want game developers to find this useful, you might want to consider adding: C++, C, Unity, Unreal SDK, Coco…

Thanks for the tip on gaming languages. And I agree on Flash - I actually started as an AS3 dev so should've known. More languages/skills are coming soon.

Re: Show HN: Pocketsquare – portfolios for developers

#36

Post by bshimmin » Thu, Oct 08, 2015, 2:15 PM UTC

Kudos wrote: post #30

You're making use of the deferred anti-pattern [0] on your own profile page [1]. [0] https://github.com/petkaantonov/bluebird/wiki/Promise-anti-p... [1] https://pocketsquare.io/alanfriedman

Totally irrelevant to the topic at hand, but that first link really is grim reading - a complicated topic treated in a dismissive tone, chock-full of jargon, and probably leaving the average reader feeling slightly abused.

Re: Show HN: Pocketsquare – portfolios for developers

#37

Post by alanfriedman » Thu, Oct 08, 2015, 2:15 PM UTC

Kudos wrote: post #30

You're making use of the deferred anti-pattern [0] on your own profile page [1]. [0] https://github.com/petkaantonov/bluebird/wiki/Promise-anti-p... [1] https://pocketsquare.io/alanfriedman

Because "request" returns a promise? I created the deferred object because I'm waiting on multiple async operations (get gravatar url, download gravatar locally and upload to s3). Or am I missing something?

Re: Show HN: Pocketsquare – portfolios for developers

#38

Post by 0xdragon » Thu, Oct 08, 2015, 2:17 PM UTC

Any custom domain love?

Re: Show HN: Pocketsquare – portfolios for developers

#39

Post by alanfriedman » Thu, Oct 08, 2015, 2:19 PM UTC

0xdragon wrote: post #38

Any custom domain love?

Absolutely - it's on the roadmap.

Re: Show HN: Pocketsquare – portfolios for developers

#40

Post by RickS » Thu, Oct 08, 2015, 2:41 PM UTC

It's a fine line between "minimal and designery" and "understyled". I think this falls slightly to the wrong side.

Also, the icon thing encourages people to check the most number of boxes, even if they're not skilled there. This is reasonable and something lots of devs do, but it will hurt your appearance to people who hire. Everyone I've ever talked to about hiring developers has an opinion somewhere in the realm of "I'd rather see resumes with one or two languages that they're strong with, than have to spend time fishing out which of 20 languages they actually write every day"