http://jon.gold/
http://www.jon.gold/txt/ - his text site is also fantastic.
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?
#132Design is entirely personal preference. Therefore information-first is a good bet if you want to absorb as large of a demographic as possible. Keep the layout and page design simple. Load times should be fast or nearly instant for that sleek professional feel. Minimalist modern design, sans any kind of framework (like Bootstrap for example) is the name of the game.
Fast, "simple" and minimalist are hard things to do right.
People spend their lives studying things like typography and design. There's a lot of value there and its NOT entirely a matter of taste. Tossing out a framework means you're wading out into hit or miss territory and creating a lot more work for yourself.
Knuth/Norvig/Kernigan can easily get away with naked HTML (although I see that Knuth has really gone bonkers and added a short stanza of css).
Normal folks who dare create a website will fare better if they stand on some shoulders for their visual styling.
Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?
#133http://natwelch.com is mine, I use it more as a cover letter to try and get people to contact me. It works somewhat well.
I love looking at people's personal sites though. I've got a small index of them from over the years at http://pinboard.in/u:icco/t:personal.
Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?
#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
I like your concept, but zoomed out the layout kinda reminds me of a swastika with more arms.
Ha! I was going for spiral galaxy, but now you've got me wondering about all those job applications that I never heard back from! FWIW the engine ( https://github.com/dougkoellmer/swarm ) that runs the website doesn't care what the layout of the cells are. For example here's a prototype textbook reader: http://eagrereader.appspot.com/
Yeah the accidental swastika needs to go. Even though everyone knows it's not a swastika, the emotional reference is formed before logic takes over.
Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?
#135One of the ones I really like is http://www.find70.com
It's a great way to find your first customers, business partners and affiliates. It's an advanced form of twitter search that let's you target accounts based on their bios and many other filters, including contact info: email/phone number, follower count, location, etc. Disclaimer: I created it. Let me know what you think.
Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?
#136http://traviswingo.com is my personal site.
I built an interactive unix-based terminal to navigate my projects and resume. I'm planning on adding a better layout though since it's been pointed out to me that the people actually looking at my site to hire me won't know what to do with a terminal :p.
Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?
#137It 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.
Sadly, shameless self-promotion works. It gets you hired, it advances your career, and it opens up doors to great opportunities. The talented hacker with just a standard resume that lists their projects and results will always get passed over for the self-promoter with mediocre output who glosses it up with superlatives and bullshit, blogs about himself every week and has 10K twitter followers.
Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?
#138First 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.
+1 for worrydream.com. I don't mind the scrolling, once you're in a post it's fine. It's an experiment in UX after all.
This is the best one I've read: http://worrydream.com/#!/ClimateChange
The visualisations and interactions are really helpful in aiding understanding. It's nice to see people trying out new ways of presenting information.
Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?
#139I am a graduate student with similar goals (though already have a job)
Here is my site:
I optimized it for following:
0. Responsive
1. Easy to understand layout
2. Images to highlight projects
3. A professional picture.
4. Contact & email information.
Don't bother fighting email collecting bots, they already have billions of them due to breaches and most likely yours if it appears on Have I Been Pwned. Rather I recommend optimizing on usability and making it easier for human reader to send you an email.
Note: The design looks slightly different on desktop and mobile. E.g. on desktop it loads institution logos and uses a two columns or efficient use of the space.