Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?
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#102oh my god these are so ugly lmao, engineers are really not designers...
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#103How about http://www.tittietime.com/
Yes its a tad salicious, but its an interesting technical project.
I have a rather large email list that would be quite expensive to send to with MailChimp, Sendgrid or the like. I've been able to use Amazon SES to send large blasts, daily for next to nothing.
Edit: This is NSFW
Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?
#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
That is really weird. I'm using Chrome on Windows too, and my scroll wheel works normally on the site. I wonder what is causing the different behaviors we're seeing.
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#105You may want to consider starting a technical blog. As long as you are okay with doing some work to get some good content on there. I would suggest finding a niche that you like and create an entire blog about it. If you put it right on your resume, they will see you as an expert in the topic. I have a blog just on the topic of SQL Server. Potential employers that use that technology always seem to see that as a good sign that I understand the technology. Furthermore, if you do a technical blog... you are learning more about the topic... which is an added benefit.
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#106Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?
#107How about http://www.tittietime.com/ Yes its a tad salicious, but its an interesting technical project. I have a rather large email list that would be quite expensive to send to with MailChimp, Sendgrid or the like. I've been able to use Amazon SES to send large blasts, daily for next to nothing. Edit: This is NSFW
Blocked by company firewall, probably because of the word "tittie" in the URL.
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#108Sarah Federman - http://sarah.codes/
Sarah Drasner - http://sarahdrasnerdesign.com/
Assume whoever looks at your portfolio is going to scroll from top to bottom first, get a first impression, then _maybe_ click through things later.
So build for the question "What do I want people to see if they scroll through my site without clicking on anything?"
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#109First 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.
Did anyone bumped into the easter egg on his site? If not, try to click on the "purveyor of impossible dreams" text below his name/logo thingie (and keep clicking!)
PS: If you are patient enough to wait for 45 clicks, you will bump into the second easter egg ;-)
Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?
#110How about http://www.tittietime.com/ Yes its a tad salicious, but its an interesting technical project. I have a rather large email list that would be quite expensive to send to with MailChimp, Sendgrid or the like. I've been able to use Amazon SES to send large blasts, daily for next to nothing. Edit: This is NSFW
Blocked by company firewall, probably because of the word "tittie" in the URL.
Probably for good reason :p