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

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Post by popey456963 »

laxatives wrote: post #229
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.

Everyone is going nuts about the presentation/scrolling/UI of worrydream, but they are missing out on the goldmine of what he's actually been working on: http://worrydream.com/#!/Showreel2012 Its absolutely insane someone could be that productive in 2 years. A lot of the ideas in that showreel are incredible. Yeah many of them probably don't work, but I saw dozens of new interactions that don't exist anywhere else. P…

The thing that got to me about how amazing his website was is how many of his sites I've actually seen, used and been impressed with that were all built by him.

I also honestly can't say I've faced the usage issues other people have. It was a pleasure to look through a bunch of his stuff and I actually kept on looking for fun.

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

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Post by sctb »

coleifer wrote: post #208
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.

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 narciss…

This is not a civil comment. Please stop.

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

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Post by ricardobeat »

catpolice wrote: post #216
unconed wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, yes, yes, it's always the same. Misrepresent well-cited arguments as rants, shoo people away with vague insinuations, and discredit the author from afar. All in the name of the "safety" and "diversity" of a narrow and pampered demographic. It's a tired old playbook. In the 3 years since I published it, the heads-on-pikes brigade hasn't slowed down, with Crockford being the latest target of a sanctioned witch hun…

Here's the deal: I disagree with this guy about a lot of things. I'm not going to address them one-by-one in a comment on a three year old piece. It's not my responsibility to write an essay about what precisely I think is wrong with a piece that I think demonstrates sexist attitudes every time I see one. There are a lot of them out there and they often repeat the same things. I used to spend a lot of time hunting do…

> it's not my responsibility to write an essay

> there are much better things I could do with my limited time

> letting it go would be chief among them in my playbook

2+2=5

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

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Post by zump »

jplahn wrote: post #170

http://aprilzero.com/ When I first saw this site I was blown away. Sure, the level of detail may be off putting to some people, but even from a purely engineering standpoint it's impressive. Shoutout to Anand for the incredible work.

huh? it's app dashboard.

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

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Post by federcheese »

GrinningFool wrote: post #149
patricklynch wrote: post #108

Sarah Federman - http://sarah.codes/ Sarah Drasner - http://sarahdrasnerdesign.com/ Assume whoever looks at your portfolio is going to scroll from top to bottom first, get a first impression, then _maybe_ click through things later. So build for the question "What do I want people to see if they scroll through my site without clicking on anything?"

> So build for the question "What do I want people to see if they scroll through my site without clicking on anything?" The home page of the first site could literally fit all of its quickly parseable informational content with no scrolling required and without being too dense (on a desktop - minimal scrolling would be needed on mobile). Does anyone really enjoy looking at seemingly-random large background images whi…

Hey, you guys found my old website! It's in sore need of some upkeep, I haven't touched it since the week I built it when I was in school :(

I understand what you're getting at re:scan-nability and info denseness, but I believe that is what a resume for. I'm not trying to use my website as a resume, I'm trying to establish a digital presence and show off my work. If I weren't a designer and front end person, having an online resume might be the goal, but this is a portfolio.

It has many problems that I hope to fix, but using visual aides are not one of them :) Anyways, thanks for taking the time to look at it. I adore Sarah Drasner's work too, she's one of my favorite people!

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

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Post by sxv »

geocrasher wrote: post #134
dougk16 wrote: post #79

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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.

The emotional reference needs to go. Swastikas were around long before nazis and they'll be around long after. It's a pretty fundamental shape.
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