http://kellysutton.com
Stumbled upon this one yesterday, it's from a paper, but well written: https://mzucker.github.io/2016/09/20/noteshrink.html
A long time favorite writer: http://www.frankchimero.com/writing/the-webs-grain/
Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?
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#32First 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.
Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?
#33I've always liked Bret Victor's site, due in no small part to the amazing content: http://worrydream.com/
Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?
#34A few that I've bookmarked for such purposes:
Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?
#35When I did put myself in potential recruiters shoes, I came up with this one page drawing to quickly showcase what I am and what I know
http://www.rsudhakar.in/assets/professional-me.jpg
It was even helpful to kickstart conversations in meetups / other technical gatherings
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#36Sara Soueidan's is pretty great - https://sarasoueidan.com/ - especially the speaking section. She's amazing generally though, so it's quite a high bar! I had some good feedback on mine as well - https://tim.fyi - and I'm pretty happy with it (love to hear what other people think too though). After the intro though, it's more about highlighting recent specific projects and talks and articles, rather than acting as a…
Website did nothing for me.
Comment did nothing for me.
Come on, you can do better than this. You're wasting your own time more than anyone else's with these sorts of comments.
To GP: Your website is just okay (on mobile). I recommend getting rid of the carousel since they're generally useless UX-wise and in this case it also repeats content with the feed below it. Not a big fan of the typefaces, but it is "approachable" if that's what you're going for. I'd get rid of the shadows on text and personally I don't think the boxes behind every feed item is totally necessary. The content without the cards behind it looks fine to me!
Also maybe making the medium/github/etc links stand out a bit more (on mobile they're overlaid on your picture). They look a bit decorative but in fact seem quite important for users to notice.
EDIT: Looked at it on desktop: The cards seem to make more sense, but not a fan of the background photo (just a bit dated). I also see now that the carousel content isn't completely duplicated, but I'd still advocate swapping it out for a single highlighted project – your magnum opus – that you dive into more extensively. Just to offset the deluge of information that's in the feeds below. Cool site! Tasteful blues and shadows goin' on.
Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?
#37Content, content, content and then presentation.
You need to think of yourself as the product and work out what's the best way to describe and package the skills and experiences that you have already acquired and how they can be applied to whatever your target companies are looking for.
Also think about whether you are using your portfolio site for lead generation or lead qualification. Lead generation means that you'll have recruiters finding your portfolio off the back of your SEO and they contact you. Whereas lead qualification means you are selling your self to a hiring manager/expert after they've read your resume and decided that they want to check your credibility before interviewing.
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#38I'm surprised no one has posted about Andrej Karpathy.
Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?
#39Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?
#40First 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 like your concept, but zoomed out the layout kinda reminds me of a swastika with more arms.