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Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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http://vincentmtang.com is mine

My site sucks though, I haven't had time to update it unfortunately. I still have about 50-100 blog posts I have on backlog I want to write about.

My train of thought is writing (or making videos) is more important since I want to capture things that happen in my life, and my adventures of screw ups and learning experiences. You can always make your portfolio later.

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm about 90% through a rework of my personal site, https://www.brentbaum.com/ Would love feedback on what works / doesn't work design-wise.

The front page looks awesome. I'm using Firefox on OSX- for some reason I can't scroll down. Maybe it's just not implemented yet?

I'm using Firefox on windows with the same issue.

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Anyone else find it depressing looking at all these awesome portfolio sites?

I’m a halfway-competent frontend developer who can build most things when I’m given a design, but I can’t imagine ever coming up with a cool quirky idea like this by myself. Where do you even begin?

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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I'm always looking for personal sites that are still out there. I love some of the ones she listed. Here are some random ones I found yesterday. http://merkoba.com/ http://angusnicneven.com/ http://danieltemkin.com/ http://joelcalifa.com/ https://jacky.wtf/ https://www.jacobyyoung.com/about http://nik.works/ http://web.archive.org/web/20180501202224/https://shiba.comp... Here are two I found several days ago, but tha…

I mostly work on interpreters and compilers.

Mine is minimal because I refuse to make it otherwise: https://bernsteinbear.com

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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I'm always looking for personal sites that are still out there. I love some of the ones she listed. Here are some random ones I found yesterday. http://merkoba.com/ http://angusnicneven.com/ http://danieltemkin.com/ http://joelcalifa.com/ https://jacky.wtf/ https://www.jacobyyoung.com/about http://nik.works/ http://web.archive.org/web/20180501202224/https://shiba.comp... Here are two I found several days ago, but tha…

After 5 years of not having a portfolio, put one up earlier this year! https://moeamaya.com/. Interestingly my best project leads have come from launching the site.

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

#49

I'm always looking for personal sites that are still out there. I love some of the ones she listed. Here are some random ones I found yesterday. http://merkoba.com/ http://angusnicneven.com/ http://danieltemkin.com/ http://joelcalifa.com/ https://jacky.wtf/ https://www.jacobyyoung.com/about http://nik.works/ http://web.archive.org/web/20180501202224/https://shiba.comp... Here are two I found several days ago, but tha…

I'm about 90% through a rework of my personal site, https://www.brentbaum.com/ Would love feedback on what works / doesn't work design-wise.

The lighting thing is pretty cute. But you have completely and totally broken scrolling.

(Or at least you have for OSX Safari 11.1.2. Two-finger scrolling on my trackpad does nothing, trying to drag the scrollbar does nothing, space and arrow keys do nothing. Clicking on the links does nothing either.)

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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post #46

Anyone else find it depressing looking at all these awesome portfolio sites? I’m a halfway-competent frontend developer who can build most things when I’m given a design, but I can’t imagine ever coming up with a cool quirky idea like this by myself. Where do you even begin?

If the designer I share an office with is anything to go by a key part is spending a good chunk of your day looking at other peoples designs..
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