It's interesting to see how many of the sites (those that are being presented by other than the owners, anyway) are getting crushed by the spike of traffic from HN.
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?
#172Can people not post their own? You're just increasing the noise.
But how else will they break the illusive 10 unique visits in a month?
Seriously though, these threads always end up the same unfortunately. There are 3-4 submissions that match the question, 6-12 that don't actually answer the question but are interesting nonetheless (e.g. someone's very well done and interesting resume/CV website), and 30+ people spamming their own poorly made or cookie cutter site with no useful information.
Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?
#173Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?
#174Earlier quoted context omitted.
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...
It was terrible under Firefox on my Surface Book, so out of curiosity I then tried it on Edge: scrolling doesn’t work at all on the touchpad or touchscreen (the arrow keys, Space, Shift+Space, Home and End don’t work in any browser). The scrollbar is the only thing that allows you to navigate down the page.
Disabling JavaScript (or if you are a NoScript user) usually 'fixes' the scroll override annoyances but try going to about:config and toggling layout.css.scroll-behavior.enabled to 'false' as well.
I started noticing some sites were hijacking scroll despite having them blocked by NoScript, however the above config change fixed that instantly. Turns out scroll can be hijacked by CSS now, not just JavaScript. Progress!
Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?
#175Earlier quoted context omitted.
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...
Did you mean worrydream or my personal website? If you mean mine, sorry for the scroll-jacking! It's been a few years since I've touched the input handling code and that kind of stuff tends to rust really fast. Might have to go back in there.
On my iPhone it works perfectly.
Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?
#176I'll throw mine into the mix. Not sure about employers thinking "I need to hire this person", but for me, my personalized dashboard is a nice way to monitor things I'm working on and reflecting on things I've learned.
Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?
#177I feel like a lot of people in this thread show very flashy websites. But honestly, if your work is decent, some people will notice regardless of how you present it. Since you ask this question, I doubt you'd make your website total crap.
Most of the time more people e.g.: watch my github page: http://github.com/wkoszek page than my real website http://www.koszek.com since its harder to find you on a separate website. This is unless you market it.
To summarise: enter the http://cr.yp.to/ and see how good the content is and how you're ok with no form too, if content is outstanding.
Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?
#178Earlier quoted context omitted.
http://worrydream.com was a horrible experience for me. Between the extremely slow scroll-hijacking and disabling of my vim-based scroll events it was a nightmare to try to navigate and I gave up without actually viewing any of the projects. Even using my colleagues hyper scroll wheel gave us a brief chuckle before quitting the page entirely.
Funny enough my first experience with worrydream was without JS, as with most new websites. And it's much better then.
:) I loved it when I first looked at it, but it vandalized itself when I turned JavaScript on.
Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?
#179Check out http://bhuvaneshshan.me/
Simple UI so that content is the king! Just 4 main pages but also organizes content in a way a user would like to see!
Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?
#180One of my favorites is Alex MacCaw's site. It's cleanly designed and communicates his achievements clearly.