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

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Post by johnsonjpj »

_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…

could you explain how you're implementing the goodreads part of your site? i'd love to add something similar to my portfolio. Thanks!

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

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Post by elhudy »

_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…

As a non-coder it feels like the learning curve for building a website portfolio is super high - even though I am told by coders that it is not. Could anyone lend some guidance on where to start?

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

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Post by WestCoastJustin »

otras wrote: post #4

Highly recommend patio11's site and blog: https://www.kalzumeus.com/ His post on salary negotiation should be mandatory reading for all software engineers: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/

Not only his site, but his comment history is also a gold mine too.

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=patio11

He has helped countless people by giving great advice. I'd really suggest reading his "You Can Probably Stand To Charge More" posts. This should be essential reading for any contractors. This personally helped me double my income.

Read here:

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2006/08/14/you-can-probably-stand-..., https://www.kalzumeus.com/2015/05/01/talking-about-money/, and https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/consultin...

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

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Post by yantrams »

Here are some relatively lesser known blogs that I can recommend, apart from the usual suspects (worrydream, John Baez etc.)

https://jeremykun.com

http://colah.github.io

https://mathwithbaddrawings.com

https://www.allendowney.com/blog/

And yeah I finally decided to inject some character into my personal website and spent a couple of days wrangling with css and made this --- http://linkdot.link . Not much content really though and it is mostly probability puzzles that I solve every now and then.

Edit: Formatting

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

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Post by josephmosby »

ctnb wrote: post #10

Julia Evans' blog is one of my favorites: https://jvns.ca/

Seconded. Julia's blog looks nice, has great explanations, and did a LOT for me as a junior developer about feeling confident in all the things that I didn't know at the time but was excited to learn.

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

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Post by blueprint_for »

_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…

What's it like being a developer in the Philadelphia area? That's near my hometown but I have a tough time searching around there.

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

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Post by rebolyte »

johnsonjpj wrote: post #51
_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…

could you explain how you're implementing the goodreads part of your site? i'd love to add something similar to my portfolio. Thanks!

Looks like he's just wrapping the GoodReads RSS feed in his GraphQL server: https://github.com/jefflombard/jefflombard.com-v4/blob/maste...
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