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Same, I think it's on purpose.
Why would someone purposefully make navigation of their site significantly worse than the default?
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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?
#202Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same, I think it's on purpose.
Why would someone purposefully make navigation of their site significantly worse than the default?
I've seen slower scrolling done to improve the "mouth feel" of the website. It's usually a designer wanting to do it without considering the full ramifications of their whimsy.
Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?
#203I think my personal one came out pretty well :D
Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?
#204I'm biased (this is my husband's website) but I like the conciseness of https://shazow.net/ a lot.
Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?
#205Here's a cool little corner of the web from the cyberpunk crowd, reminiscent of geocities.
Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?
#206First 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.
Am I missing some sort of joke here? These are exactly the types of pages that I would recommend avoiding.
If your're hoping to convince employers of your technical skills I would put examples of your work up front. Unless you're applying for jobs where "unique" UIs are valued (designing ad agency sites?) then it will actually detract from your goal.
Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?
#207Daniel Johnson's blog is hard to beat http://www.hexahedria.com/ Stephen Wittens' site is another that comes to mind https://acko.net/
Hexhedria just reminds me of BlogSpot
Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?
#208First 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.
I'm amazed this is the top comment. I've seen skid-marks in the toilet that looked better than worrydream. And the user experience is completely banjaxed. Scrolling with the mousewheel barely changes the Y-position. My vim plugin keybindings don't work. Fucking pagedown doesn't even work. Ugh.
Also notice that DougK (the commenter) has been kind enough to post his own site (which fucking sucks). Turn down the narcissism.
Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?
#209I 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 :)
The size of the headshot on personal websites exhibits a strong correlation (P=0.01) with narcissism.
Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?
#210http://kellysutton.com Stumbled upon this one yesterday, it's from a paper, but well written: https://mzucker.github.io/2016/09/20/noteshrink.html A long time favorite writer: http://www.frankchimero.com/writing/the-webs-grain/
Finally, someone with taste!
These are great examples. Clean and user-friendly. They invite the visitor to spend some time reading, and display the articles using familiar conventions. Nice work!
To contrast with the top 2 comments...just look at all the tacky animations, cheesy special effects, massive headshots. Clearly the people had nothing to say so they decided to bedazzle the fuck out of their sites in the hopes that no one noticed.