Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Building a Kickass Portfolio

zen-of-programming.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

141–150 of 294 posts

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

#141

Post by kickscondor »

hypertexthero wrote: post #116
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…

My personal site, made with hand-coded HTML and CSS, generated with Hugo, and published with rsync: https://www.simongriffee.com/ I use a couple of JavaScript libraries for displaying portfolio image galleries and the masonry-style blog list pages under /notebook/, but am thinking of reverting the latter into a single-column chronological format instead. May the independent web live long and prosper! https://indieweb…

Full of great stuff. Your photography is sensational. I think the masonry style suits it very well here, but I understand wanting to shake things up.

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

#142

Post by kickscondor »

Dramatize wrote: post #140
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…

This is mine: http://dragthelake.com/ Tried to keep it simple

The slight tilt. Brilliant.

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

#143

Post by andrew_wc_brown »

I always ask people if they looked at website, my code or anything before hiring me and the overwhelming answer is no. I've always had to get things in front of people just get them to see the extent of work. People think you need a portfolio to get hired you don't. I've built over 30 web-apps in the last decade, and I've never bothered to screen cap them.

People only care what you can immediately do for them and if its not 1-to-1 with what they want they don't care.

Its sad but its true.

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

#144

Post by kickscondor »

matallo wrote: post #83
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…

Here's my personal website: https://matall.in I'm a fan of personal sites, too. Some of the ones that I like most, in no particular order: https://macwright.org https://zachholman.com https://warpspire.com https://paulstamatiou.com http://francisco.dance https://craigmod.com

Seen some of this before, but glad to see it again.

Your site is well done - I particularly like the timeline overview of your life. Everyone should do one of those. I've been obsessed with 1995 era Yahoo/DMOZ link directories lately - your site reminds me of a little directory to your life. I don't know if you track heart rate and stuff like that, but I was honestly glad it was more of a summary than an exhaustive data dump.

Thankyou.

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

#145

Post by alexpetralia »

andrew_wc_brown wrote: post #143

I always ask people if they looked at website, my code or anything before hiring me and the overwhelming answer is no. I've always had to get things in front of people just get them to see the extent of work. People think you need a portfolio to get hired you don't. I've built over 30 web-apps in the last decade, and I've never bothered to screen cap them. People only care what you can immediately do for them and if…

Bring a color-print out of your projects. This worked wonders for me when I was applying to jobs.

For reference, my website is here: https://www.alexpetralia.com. I printed out the first page, then could talk about each project quite tangibly with the print-out in hand.

You still need a portfolio, you just also have to SHOW it. It is your job as an applicant, not theirs to research every candidate that comes by.

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

#146

Post by kickscondor »

Zyst wrote: post #131
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…

This guy from Japan still has my favorite portfolio so far: https://magical-girl.site/ I shared it a while ago here, but it didn't get much traction.

Wild!

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

#147

Post by benjvmin »

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…

Here is mine!

https://benjamintaylorportfolio.netlify.com/#/

Built with Vue.js and uses Wordpress REST API as a headless content management system.

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

#149

Post by kickscondor »

egypturnash wrote: post #54
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…

http://egypt.urnash.com I'm mostly an artist, and I take delight in the aggressive unhipness of my site running on top of Wordpress. It's had the same front page since 2011. Someday I should really change the menus in the blog/portfolio sections to work with touch browsers. I got comics to draw, though.

The depth of your site is mind-blowing. I will have to return and read through some of the longer comics. I love the style of Parallax.

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

#150

Post by majormajor »

andrew_wc_brown wrote: post #143

I always ask people if they looked at website, my code or anything before hiring me and the overwhelming answer is no. I've always had to get things in front of people just get them to see the extent of work. People think you need a portfolio to get hired you don't. I've built over 30 web-apps in the last decade, and I've never bothered to screen cap them. People only care what you can immediately do for them and if…

The only time I was ever asked about "portfolio" type stuff was when my resume was extremely short (1.5 years of not-super-interesting work). Landed a job that was way more interesting solely on the strength of some research-y stuff I'd done in school while contemplating going to grad school.
Post reply on HN