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Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by AlphaWeaver »

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:

https://me.thatcoolidea.com

The typing interaction was inspired from a site called Hacker Typer. I like how it invests the user in the sight by inviting them to interact immediately. (View on PC. It's non interactive on mobile)

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by h4b4n3r0 »

kelvin0 wrote: post #78

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?

From my past life as a hiring manager: having a portfolio (or better yet a demo that you can show during your interview) helps junior hires a lot. It helps in 2 major ways:

1. I can see that the junior hire actually _did_ something worthwhile in addition to their mandatory coursework

2. It creates a topic for discussion that is: a). more comfortable for the candidate and b). more revealing about their work-related traits.

It's a win-win. For senior candidates I just look at the track record. If they have a relevant project on e.g. GitHub, I might take a look, but it's not going to sway anything in a major way unless it happens to be exactly the domain expertise we're looking for, which happened only once.

That's a small company though. A large company will not even look at your portfolio or GitHub unless you're a GitHub superstar of some sort, and maybe not even then. There are several well publicized stories when people who drive huge projects on GH failed to get an offer from FANGs of the world.

The best dev we hired though, had nothing on github and did not have a portfolio. He just wrote code three times faster than anybody I've ever seen and without any bugs.

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by ivanech »

stir wrote: post #179
ivanech wrote: post #135

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I would appreciate any feedback: https://www.echevarria.io/ . It's just basic HTML, CSS, and I think three small scripts for the whole thing.

Nice site! I'm biased because I use my phone so much, but if you add in a viewport tag it'll look better on mobile. I just added one in the console and I think it still looks pretty good

Wow, thanks so much for pointing this out. I spent a day or two getting things mobile-responsive, but I couldn't figure out why certain mobile browsers didn't display the site as I intended. I added a little thank you in the README: https://github.com/iechevarria/iechevarria.github.io

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by hypertexthero »

kickscondor wrote: post #141
hypertexthero wrote: post #116

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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.

Thank you!

The ability to change things is one of the nice things about personal websites.

I am enjoying exploring kickscondor.com

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by ivanech »

kickscondor wrote: post #161
ivanech wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would appreciate any feedback: https://www.echevarria.io/ . It's just basic HTML, CSS, and I think three small scripts for the whole thing.

I have bookmarked the pastels blog entry to revisit - I think this is a fun post. Your blue puts you with the other link here https://moeamaya.com/ which is good company. One question: is there a reason you chose to go with left-right arrows on the photo page and scrolling on the code page? You are doing good work. Continue.

Thanks! I went with left-right arrows because that's pretty much the standard for fine art photographers and I did scrolling on the code page because I suspect that developers would get frustrated with the lack of information density. I feel weird that the photos are the odd page out, but I struggled with finding an alternative when I made this.

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by ohmatt »

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 reverse of this, however, has impacted our hiring process in the past. We never really looked for things from someone's portfolio or personal website as a way to judge their skill level, but we have been much more critical on some prospects due to their personal site.

I won't personally judge harshly if it's not prominently displayed on linkedin, or easily searchable. But we've had several candidates that had links to their personal website on linkedin, or even in their resume, and they were ATROCIOUS. I just find it crazy that someone would advertise a personal website that was poorly written. If it's a personal project you don't work on much, then don't show it off on your professional resume.

But I agree with your initial point, we never really used portfolio sites to determine if they were worth hiring.

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by aspit »

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…

Yeah -- mine is more for speaking and blogging instead of looking for jobs. Though, I do get approached by companies all the time because of my portfolio. Definitely not necessary, but it can be really helpful as well.

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by aspit »

ohmatt wrote: post #187

Just a heads up, your Simon Says project on your personal page doesn't seem to work properly (Chrome on Windows). Every time I click start, and then try to follow it, it just resets.

Ah weird -- it's working for me. It was definitely an hour and a half long "I'm using a queue data structure in real life" experiment. Thanks for the heads up!
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