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Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by bdcravens »

namanyayg wrote: post #59
kickscondor wrote: post #8

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…

Redid mine a few weeks ago (with a new domain that I've been pining after), thoughts? https://nmn.gl/

How many blockchain projects have you done? Looking at the body of work you've shown, it all looks to be standard web projects - nothing at all wrong with those kind of projects, but when you put "web & blockchain solutions" at the top, it makes it feel like hype marketing.

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by [deleted] »

abledon wrote: post #66
J-dawg wrote: 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?

Find a website design you like. Find a comic / movie / art piece you like . Smash the two color scheme / designs aesthetics together . Most creativity is smashing together previous stimuli into new things. Creative people can just do it a lot more easily and unconsciously like a muscle reflex Edit: lol even one of the other repliers is called ‘pixelbash’

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Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by MikeKusold »

throwawayaway12 wrote: post #65

I am curious if anyone has advice/tips for getting a simple portfolio up and running. I am a physics phd student who has worked on a few side projects that I would like to showcase. I am looking into Jekyll and hosting it on github, but I am not sure if this is ideal for a simple static site.

You can setup Gitlab for hosting as well. I use Gitlab CI to build my Hugo site, then Gitlab also does the hosting.

This approach gives a lot better flexibility than Github's standard Jekyll.

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by namanyayg »

bdcravens wrote: post #71
namanyayg wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Redid mine a few weeks ago (with a new domain that I've been pining after), thoughts? https://nmn.gl/

How many blockchain projects have you done? Looking at the body of work you've shown, it all looks to be standard web projects - nothing at all wrong with those kind of projects, but when you put "web & blockchain solutions" at the top, it makes it feel like hype marketing.

I've helped out 4 ICOs with smart contract programming & web interfaces. I do not list them on my public portfolio, only present them to interested clients.

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by kickscondor »

refrigerator wrote: post #33
kickscondor wrote: post #8

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…

https://taimur.me/about

Very clean. I like the general attitude. The mustard color is good. Such an ideal color does wonders. Going to have to follow your blog. Thanks!

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by edhu2017 »

throwawayaway12 wrote: post #65

I am curious if anyone has advice/tips for getting a simple portfolio up and running. I am a physics phd student who has worked on a few side projects that I would like to showcase. I am looking into Jekyll and hosting it on github, but I am not sure if this is ideal for a simple static site.

Depends on how simple you want to get. If literally displaying text once in a while, you don't even need jekyll. If you are a blog writer, want some sort of templating / reusable snippets, or want cool themes then jekyll is good.

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by J-dawg »

abledon wrote: post #66
J-dawg wrote: 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?

Find a website design you like. Find a comic / movie / art piece you like . Smash the two color scheme / designs aesthetics together . Most creativity is smashing together previous stimuli into new things. Creative people can just do it a lot more easily and unconsciously like a muscle reflex Edit: lol even one of the other repliers is called ‘pixelbash’

Thanks, I appreciate the idea! I think part of the problem is believing I can do it, I’m not sure how to overcome that

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by kelvin0 »

I'm an (veteran?) Software Dev with close to 20 years experience. I've never had a portfolio, I always thought a resumé and a list of successfully completed projects was enough. HR usually only looks at resumé, freelance customers usually couldn't care less of it seems. Only devs would care about another devs portfolio (in my opinion).

Any other opinions?

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by [deleted] »

kickscondor wrote: post #8

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…

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Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by kickscondor »

moeamaya wrote: post #48
kickscondor wrote: post #8

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.

Very practical, but elegant feeling. A new appreciation for blue. I recall your cool backgrounds project. Looking forward to further essays. Thankyou!
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