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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?

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Post by spiralganglion »

I'll throw my hat into the ring: http://ivanish.ca

What makes my site interesting is that.. I work in web dev and graphics, so I got to have some fun combining the two for my portfolio. I'd love to see more programmers taking advantage of web technologies to make their portfolios more visually interesting, and playful.

As much as Flash caused headaches and was a thorn in the side of the open web, there sure were a lot more interesting portfolio sites in the Flash days than there are now.

Thanks for creating this fun thread!

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

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Post by WestCoastJustin »

patio11 wrote: post #78
WestCoastJustin wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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-..…

Thanks, that made my morning!

Honestly, thank you! Just checked my email. I chatted with you all the way back on Oct 17-22, 2014!

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

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Post by theandrewbailey »

mrspeaker wrote: post #50
_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!

I got a completely blank page running Firefox + uMatrix with no scripts running.

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

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Post by kickscondor »

yantrams wrote: post #55

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 real…

Love your site - ty for sharing.

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

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Post by Abfrage »

yantrams wrote: post #55

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 real…

Hey, just went on your site with firefox and the content was outside the screen. After digging into it a bit I found that you use "transform: scale(1.3)" on the body. It seems like firefox is positioning the element with its original dimensions and then scales the element. "transform-origin: 0 0" fixed it for me.
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