Personal Website for Programmers
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Personal Website for Programmers
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Re: Personal Website for Programmers
#2Ummm....shouldn't a programmer make their own? Dumb question I know.
Re: Personal Website for Programmers
#3Speaking from the perspective of someone looking to hire: It doesn't make for a good impression if I see anyone other than the original author with the same obviously distinctive style of site showing pretty much a subset of the info I can already see from your GitHub account, except the latter doesn't require JS to view.
If I'm looking at someone's personal site, it should look personal --- not "I cloned someone else's I found on GitHub and changed the names and details to mine."
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#4Ummm....shouldn't a programmer make their own? Dumb question I know.
Not all programmers are competent web developers or designers. Some may not see it as worth the time investment; others may not have an aesthetic sense that jives with the majority's.
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#5Speaking from the perspective of someone looking to hire: It doesn't make for a good impression if I see anyone other than the original author with the same obviously distinctive style of site showing pretty much a subset of the info I can already see from your GitHub account, except the latter doesn't require JS to view. If I'm looking at someone's personal site, it should look personal --- not "I cloned someone els…
I mean, it depends. I hire SRE/Devops and I really don't care that much if you used someone else's theme, or paid someone to write one for you and credit them. In fact, it'd be kinda neat to find someone who bought a theme. That's just good specialization and collaboration skills.
And my own website is basically the Pelican generator default with a different color selected. Far more damning is the placid update schedule. Try not to put dated content on your front page if you're putting a website in front of manager's faces.
Re: Personal Website for Programmers
#6Speaking from the perspective of someone looking to hire: It doesn't make for a good impression if I see anyone other than the original author with the same obviously distinctive style of site showing pretty much a subset of the info I can already see from your GitHub account, except the latter doesn't require JS to view. If I'm looking at someone's personal site, it should look personal --- not "I cloned someone els…
I mean, it depends. I hire SRE/Devops and I really don't care that much if you used someone else's theme, or paid someone to write one for you and credit them. In fact, it'd be kinda neat to find someone who bought a theme. That's just good specialization and collaboration skills. And my own website is basically the Pelican generator default with a different color selected. Far more damning is the placid update sched…
Agree. I paid some for a template i liked(not for my personal site but same lotic applies). Best 50$ ever spent.
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#7Thinking about this, I think designers have it easier when it comes to personal website branding
Web Designers can show the full range of skills by designing their website well.
Web Developers can't exactly cram all their elegantly designed components into one website.
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#8Ummm....shouldn't a programmer make their own? Dumb question I know.
I think people want it to look fancy, rather than just plain:
http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
Most people don't benefit very much from having prettily-designed websites.
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#9Speaking from the perspective of someone looking to hire: It doesn't make for a good impression if I see anyone other than the original author with the same obviously distinctive style of site showing pretty much a subset of the info I can already see from your GitHub account, except the latter doesn't require JS to view. If I'm looking at someone's personal site, it should look personal --- not "I cloned someone els…
> Speaking from the perspective of someone looking to hire: It doesn't make for a good impression if I see anyone other than the original author with the same obviously distinctive style of site
> If I'm looking at someone's personal site, it should look personal --- not "I cloned someone else's I found on GitHub
To me that seems petty and I feel you'll end up isolating a good portion of the talent pool. Anecdotally, I can only recall a handful of personal sites that appeared to be truly personal (by your definition) and not all may have been.
For whatever reason this reminds me of: https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/67e0hl/whenever_i_ge...
Re: Personal Website for Programmers
#10Speaking from the perspective of someone looking to hire: It doesn't make for a good impression if I see anyone other than the original author with the same obviously distinctive style of site showing pretty much a subset of the info I can already see from your GitHub account, except the latter doesn't require JS to view. If I'm looking at someone's personal site, it should look personal --- not "I cloned someone els…
> Speaking from the perspective of someone looking to hire: It doesn't make for a good impression if I see anyone other than the original author with the same obviously distinctive style of site > If I'm looking at someone's personal site, it should look personal --- not "I cloned someone else's I found on GitHub To me that seems petty and I feel you'll end up isolating a good portion of the talent pool. Anecdotally,…
Petty though it may be, if it's true, if it's sufficiently widespread, then it's a reality with which we must be able to deal.