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Re: Ask HN: What are some great personal blogs/portfolios?

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Post by eppsilon »

_omnf wrote: post #26

At the risk of sounding pompous. I really like my portfolio site: [link redacted] Why? I built it for myself. Not for what I thought recruiters/employers wanted to see. I simply wanted a place to collect some of the projects I work on. And more importantly one that captured my personality a bit. It's not perfect, I look at it and see a ton things I'd refactor. But it get's people to laugh or start a conversation abou…

I like the "hello" button. :) The font weight of the body text is almost painfully light though.

Re: Ask HN: What are some great personal blogs/portfolios?

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Post by yakshaving_jgt »

zawerf wrote: post #30

Probably one of the most unique designs for a personal blog I have ever seen (the animated page headers, page transitions, and a lot of genuinely great articles and talks): https://acko.net

Wittens' posts on culture in tech and the rise of postmodernism are especially important. Storms and Teacups is excellent, and I'm pleased to see he has a more recent one too.

http://acko.net/blog/storms-and-teacups/

http://acko.net/blog/falling-into-faith/

Re: Ask HN: What are some great personal blogs/portfolios?

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Post by stingrae »

iancmceachern wrote: post #27

I'm going to go the other way with my comment and ask for feedback on my portfolio page. https://www.iancollmceachern.com Please feel free to email feedback to the contact info on my page or post it here. Thank you in advance. (Edited to add that I'm a hardware product designer, providing mechanical and systems engineering services for medical devices and other mission critical hardware)

Here were my first impressions: - It is very gray. The blog looks much better with it's white space.

- I don't get what the shopping cart is for.

- The header isn't centered.

- The font is very heavy feeling.

- I like the contact page. I feel like that should be your main page, with the side bar links moved to be across the top of the page.

I'd also like to get feedback on my personal website: https://raemond.com

Re: Ask HN: What are some great personal blogs/portfolios?

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Post by navchatterji »

I built my personal website using Google Docs. https://navchatterji.com/. This was a fun weekend experiment where the aim was to build a quick, usable website (in this case a blog) and host it without having to type in a single line of HTML/CSS or terminal command. The instructions on how I made it is near the bottom.

Re: Ask HN: What are some great personal blogs/portfolios?

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Post by mrspeaker »

_omnf wrote: post #26

At the risk of sounding pompous. I really like my portfolio site: [link redacted] Why? I built it for myself. Not for what I thought recruiters/employers wanted to see. I simply wanted a place to collect some of the projects I work on. And more importantly one that captured my personality a bit. It's not perfect, I look at it and see a ton things I'd refactor. But it get's people to laugh or start a conversation abou…

"I'm a javascript developer. What did you expect to see here without Javascript enabled?". Instant whitelist!
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