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

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

#61
Ask and ye shall receive...self promos! My blog is a smattering of personal development and increasingly more about content strategy as I try to find a niche.

https://www.ozchen.com/fuck-balance/

https://www.ozchen.com/hanlons-razor/

https://www.ozchen.com/what-is-content-strategy-definition/

To my own surprise, it was through writing that I landed gigs in UX, UI and content strategy, and now parlayed into a full time content strategy job.

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

#63
I revamped my portfolio/freelance page recently if anyone wants to borrow any ideas from it or has any feedback:

https://www.seanw.org/

I tried to get all the important details on a single page and isolate the tech jargon to appeal to non-technical clients. I personally found and had non-technical friends agree with me that a lot of developer portfolios focused too much on the tech (e.g. "I'm a Node developer who loves React!") or go into too much detail about project specifics so I tried to avoid that.

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

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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?

I mean, if you really want the easy way out, just pay Squarespace or another WSIWYG website builder. That's what a lot of my artist and photographer friends use.
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