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

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Post by danieltorre »

seanwilson wrote: post #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 lov…

This looks great. You're spot on with the feedback you've received about technical jargon and I think you've struck a great balance.

I like the single page and I think the content fits nicely. But, I'd be lost with more content on a single page—in terms of navigation and keeping a mental model of what I've seen.

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

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Post by zhte415 »

elhudy wrote: post #52
_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?

Perhaps just start. Not on coding, but on content. Coding facilitates, but a lot of people have already spent a lot of time coding things already. My own 'portfolio' is a wiki, looks neither pretty nor ugly, at least to me, with a heck of a lot of text, about things that interest me. Wiki because of a realisation that chronological order didn't seem to make sense to a body of work that can be added to constantly.

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

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Post by yuy910616 »

wenc wrote: post #28
yuy910616 wrote: post #11

dan wang. he wrote why so few people major in CS. interesting dude. https://danwang.co/ bill gurley, investor http://abovethecrowd.com/

I discovered Dan Wang through Tyler Cowen's Marginal Revolution Blog (a great blog for folks with omnivorous interests). Dan seems to be a deep thinker (philosophy major). He doesn't write about engineering so much, but what he does write about he goes deep.

that's exactly how I found him... Did you major in Econ or something?

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

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Post by wenc »

yuy910616 wrote: post #114
wenc wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I discovered Dan Wang through Tyler Cowen's Marginal Revolution Blog (a great blog for folks with omnivorous interests). Dan seems to be a deep thinker (philosophy major). He doesn't write about engineering so much, but what he does write about he goes deep.

that's exactly how I found him... Did you major in Econ or something?

Not really. I have no econ background at all but I still find Tyler's blog interesting.

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

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Post by yuy910616 »

wenc wrote: post #115
yuy910616 wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

that's exactly how I found him... Did you major in Econ or something?

Not really. I have no econ background at all but I still find Tyler's blog interesting.

That's great to hear! I always thought only econ people read that blog. Did you find stratechery through MR yet? If not...Ben Thompson is worth a read for sure.

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

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Post by saddington »

I've been blogging about my life as a software engineer, dad, husband, entrepreneur, and now (new!) youtube vlogger for a long time. blogging 18 years, actually: http://john.do/

my hope is to simply share what i'm working on and share how those things are actually working.

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

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Post by diessica »

Not really great but in a hope someone might think it is, this is one is mine: https://diessi.ca Built it myself, I am a Front-end Developer anyway.

Began writing about programming but honestly now I just write about whatever I want. Last post was about my sensory depravation experience so I expect anything.

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

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Post by wenc »

yuy910616 wrote: post #116
wenc wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not really. I have no econ background at all but I still find Tyler's blog interesting.

That's great to hear! I always thought only econ people read that blog. Did you find stratechery through MR yet? If not...Ben Thompson is worth a read for sure.

I've known about Stratechery for some time. I understand the content is very good, but my interests aren't quite in that space.
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