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

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Post by godshatter »

tombrossman wrote: post #174
chrismorgan wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!

Nice. Unfortunately, that configuration option doesn't exist in Pale Moon.

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

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Post by fatboy10174 »

WhitneyLand wrote: post #15
fatboy10174 wrote: post #11

Im also one of 'those' people, i like my own.. https://www.filmitright.co.uk/

Dan, your project sounds cool and interesting. Feedback on the site: -Don't make us wait so long (so far down on the page) to find out what you're doing. I'd like to see this immediately: "Film it Right is a new and exciting tool created for amateur and independent filmmakers". -You could move your own pictures and names to the bottom. People tend to first look for a reason to care, then lastly look at who did it.

Wow thanks! I wasn't expecting any feedback, I am however very grateful for yours and I'll make those changes to it.

I will be putting the finished beta version of the website live in the new year. I'd love to hear feedback from you for that as well?

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

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Post by gkya »

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.

WRT your website, it's quite nice of you that you've added the message "you need js for this website". Maybe better if you add a little personal information to that message too, like "Hey I'm Doug, I'm a software dev, and this is my website. You need JS enabled for it to function. Otherwise reach me at domain>." This'd be more intriguing to enable JS. And when I enabled it I liked what I got, a nice idea.

WRT Bret's website, it's the type of website I'd pass if I wasn't told that there's sth. interesting in it. A black window w/o JS, and when enabled, it takes 5-10 seconds to just show me some text b/c needs to load custom fonts and loads of JS, and then messes up my scroll. Yours is a creative thing and I like it, but this one just imitates badly the normal scolling. Plain awful.

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

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Post by jefflombardjr »

Simple and Functional: http://andrew.hedges.name/

A horrible website for horrible people (in the style of CAH): http://jefflombard.com/

(full disclaimer last one is my own site, anyone is welcome to clone it, it's based off of cards against humanity and available under creative commons: https://github.com/jefflombard/jefflombard.com)

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

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Post by gkya »

Kiro wrote: post #50
hfsktr wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

No need for JavaScript to make a good website.

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

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Post by dougk16 »

gkya wrote: post #184
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.

WRT your website, it's quite nice of you that you've added the message "you need js for this website". Maybe better if you add a little personal information to that message too, like "Hey I'm Doug, I'm a software dev, and this is my website. You need JS enabled for it to function. Otherwise reach me at domain>." This'd be more intriguing to enable JS. And when I enabled it I liked what I got, a nice idea. WRT Bret's…

Hey thanks, really nice focused feedback there that I will take action on. A pipe dream I have is to actually make the engine powering my website work without JS as well. So a zoom/swipe navigation would actually go up to the server to get a fresh static html page that would render all the cells at their appropriate location/size. Kind of like how the very first map apps worked online. It would be a little clunky obviously but I think still usable.

I had no idea Bret's website would be so polarizing! I appreciate it in a more idealized sense, so "assuming JS is enabled and scrolling works right and you have a fast internet", and of course for the content itself. If he was the kind of person that had to look for jobs then I'd recommend fixing those things as well.

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

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Post by lukaszkups »

Ruphin wrote: post #188

I must say http://acko.net is easily the most impressive personal site I've visited. This is mine: https://ruph.in It's something I threw together recently, but it's still missing some content. I like the style though :)

Your website throw an error in ff: Polymer is not a function ;)
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