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

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Post by lukaszkups »

pfd1986 wrote: post #154
lukaszkups wrote: post #150

Like many of before me, I'll share my own website (currently in redesign, so I'll provide links via internet archive) - built in Nanoc3, hosted on github pages: Main page: https://web.archive.org/web/20150801213611/http://lukaszkups... Experience page: https://web.archive.org/web/20150826004819/http://lukaszkups... About page: https://web.archive.org/web/20150826004912/http://lukaszkups... Contact page: https://web.a…

Lektor?

no, I've written own one (while learning some stuff around Node.js) - INKU (still in progress / early beta - even official website is not ready yet) - repo: https://github.com/lukaszkups/inku

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

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Post by Ruphin »

lukaszkups wrote: post #189
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 ;)

I'm not even sure if it's cross browser compatible. I literally threw it together in an hour using the assets I made for one of my side projects: https://overwebs.ruph.in

I'm pretty sure that one works in Firefox and Chrome at least. It's also considerably more developed :)

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

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Post by retube »

at-fates-hands wrote: post #99
retube wrote: post #41

I like mine :) Simple and speedy (hopefully) http://www.retu.be/

Yes sir. 5 requests 6.91kb 0.75S I've always been a big fan of having an absolute minimal number of http requests. This is right up my alley.

5! damn. need to base64 encode those icons

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

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Post by kbhat »

sundarurfriend wrote: post #164
kbhat wrote: post #56

http://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!

I like it, simple, (obviously) quick to load, and easy to visually follow as well. One piece of browser feedback: on my Firefox, when I zoom in above 100% (to even just 120%), part of the text (say, your email ID) vanishes beneath the page, and scrolling only scrolls your image on the right, not the text. And talking about email, it might be better to move the email address up a bit, perhaps after the blog link. A lo…

> I like it, simple, (obviously) quick to load, and easy to visually follow as well.

Thanks!

> One piece of browser feedback: on my Firefox, when I zoom in above 100% (to even just 120%), part of the text (say, your email ID) vanishes beneath the page, and scrolling only scrolls your image on the right, not the text.

I'll try to fix that.

> And talking about email, it might be better to move the email address up a bit, perhaps after the blog link. A lot of folks coming to your personal page are probably going to want to contact you as the next step.

Duly noted, and fixed.

> (As a subjective comment, I'm not a fan of the background colour, makes the page feel a bit dull. )

Agreed; but I didn't want the harsher white, and I'm not sure if I really like any other solid color. Suggestions?

> By the way, are you standing on top of an electric transformer in the photo? If so, why???

Haha, no. This is a pole on top of Mission Peak in California; it's something of a tradition to have a picture taken with/on it. Those holes are meant for looking through, but no one does that. :)

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

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Post by gkya »

dougk16 wrote: post #187
gkya wrote: post #184

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 obv…

I guess who don't have JS in these days are mostly the ones who disabled it in purpose. So a message inviting them to enable would be enough. Also, it's harder for some handicapped people to use interactive websites, so they'd rather have a nice plain alternative than an imitation of the interactive site that's equally harder to use. And, you're welcome :)

Bret's website is an obstacle to the content therewithin. If all he cares is getting hired, then well... But if it's sharing information, he should fix that website.

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

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Post by bryanrasmussen »

chris_7 wrote: post #57

It 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.

It does seem to me that if one of the great virtues of a programmer is laziness then too much self-promotion is a resume smell. But then again, it seems to be the nature of the game for the foreseeable future.

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

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Post by automathematics »

ollerac wrote: post #77

http://davidmiranda.info/ from scratch, no css framework responsive portrait by alisabishop.com i'd love feedback! edit: feel free to use it as a template for your own site! https://github.com/panphora/davidmirandainfo

This is the first one in this thread I find visually appealing :)

edit: I guess I should put my money where my mouth is, but I took down my portfolio site and redirect to a project specific one: https://doomtroopergame.com so that's all I have at the moment.

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

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Post by mr_o0o »

old-gregg wrote: post #178
INTPenis wrote: post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

haha same here ;)
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