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…
Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?
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#53This musical toy splash page from me http://georgehenryrowe.co.uk/
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#54http://elm-chan.org
A one man hardware & software powerhouse. He is an old-school EE in Japan and his personal projects are astounding in breadth and depth.
His SD Card and FFT libraries are classics. His hand wired SMT circuits are works of art.
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#55Stuart Memo: https://stuartmemo.com/
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#56http://kbhat.rocks is my landing page. Rather than dump all my info on this page, it links to my blog and other things I'd like to share.
I got this up after getting my job offer in place, but for now I'm happy with it. One thing that's missing is my resume, but for me that's application-specific and I'd rather have people ask for it than display a fixed version.
Feel free to critique, HN!
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#57It 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.
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#58Can people not post their own? You're just increasing the noise.
Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?
#59It 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.
I'm afraid Xcelerate has shown us that hacker news readers' ego allows this sort of thread to get to the #1 page...
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#60Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/