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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 pierrec »

kersny wrote: post #24

http://spritesmods.com/ Maybe not exactly what you're looking for, but its simple and clicking through any project makes me to want to work with and/or hire him immediately.

The content is great (and probably famous on HN), but I find the website itself is really not optimal:

- When reducing the width of your window, you obtain some layout disaster

- There are those weird pages containing only one sentence

- The articles are often split into many little pages, which I find pretty useless, and only makes it slightly more difficult to navigate.

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

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Post by brudgers »

Xcelerate wrote: post #30
brudgers wrote: post #6

Designing a personal website can be an interesting learning experience and an engaging creative act expressing a strong sense of aesthetic judgment and philosophy. On the other hand, there's something to be said for not overcooking the pudding and just giving the user what they're likely to be looking for. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/ http://norvig.com/ http://www-cs-staff.stanford.edu/~uno/

I feel like "wall of text and no modern styling" works better if you're already a world famous researcher (or if you're Y Combinator).

A wall of text is often the simplest thing that might work: e.g. Twitter, StackOverflow, Reddit, Whatsapp, blogs, email, SMS.

Sure, nobody else is Knuth. Redesigning a personal website with scrolling text and the blink attribute won't change that in an important way.

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

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Post by chuckdries »

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.

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

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Post by grenoire »

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.

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...

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

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Post by Kiro »

hfsktr wrote: post #26
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.)

I didn't see what was so special. You will need to enable javascript if you have that disabled. [Edit: with javascript it's cool the first time but if I want to read an article I don't need the animation every time...] I only read one article but it was really well written and presented. [re-edit] I was not being dismissive or negative. Since I didn't have JS enabled I didn't know I was missing anything. This site (u…

Honestly, what did you expect from browsing this thread with JavaScript disabled?
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